Sentence examples for big procurement from inspiring English sources

Spiralling government debt in America and Britain means that "wars of choice" are no longer affordable and the search is on for cuts in big procurement programmes.

The British government treated it as a big procurement program, putting out bids, selecting contractors, picking winners and concentrating their bets.

Moreover, since most bio-defense projects are still in the research stages, it is not clear which ones will lead to big procurement contracts.

"In Asia-Pacific the big projects, big procurements gaining traction are ones where it's more about high altitude reconnaissance.

"This is by far the biggest procurement process in the NHS and is a dangerous experiment.

Today, the missile defense effort is the Pentagon's single biggest procurement program.

However, if the propulsion problems persist, they would represent one of the biggest procurement disasters the MoD has ever had to deal with, and potentially leave the Astute fleet struggling to perform all the duties it was built for.

Code-named Operation Lightning Strike, the FBI probe is believed to involve multimillion-dollar damages against the government and has been described by officials familiar with the investigation as the biggest procurement fraud case since the Ill Wind probe, in which 50 defense industry and Pentagon officials have been convicted.

Until the DfT was forced to scrap the award of the west coast contract to FirstGroup, the deal to build 1,200 Thameslink carriages had been the department's biggest procurement headache, after Siemens was selected ahead of Britain's last remaining train factory as preferred bidder.

Christina McAnea, Unison's head of health, said: "This is by far the biggest procurement process in the NHS and is a dangerous experiment.

This is a breakdown of the five biggest procurements that TfL has given me: Bombardier - trains for sub-surface railway (Derby) £1.7bn.