Demographic studies have been commissioned, consultants have been brought in to do comparisons of how much it would cost to renovate the building versus building a new one.
The report said the Western Australian government had commissioned consultants to investigate some deductions claimed by oil and gas companies, and they found $8.6m in underpaid royalties to date.
The approach taken by The Partnering Initiative (TPI), as the commissioned consultants for the review, emphasises an analysis of the co-lead arrangement as an actual or potential cross-sector partnership which can be further developed and refined in order to benefit the Global Education Cluster.
Using off-the-shelf software marks a big difference from traditional e-government in which security-conscious, risk-averse officials start by commissioning consultants to draw up a tender and go on to buy an expensive tailor-made system running on costly in-house computers.Mr Kundra applies the same ruthless approach to hardware.
She persuaded a small group of students to take part and, buoyed by their response, she then commissioned arts consultant Michael Pagnotta to design a series of sessions specifically for Oxford Brookes' business school.
In addition, the Sports Council Equality Group commissioned a consultant to explore robust alternatives to the IOC rules, arguing that it was hormones rather than SRS that equalised physical disparities, and that transsexual people should be allowed to compete in their chosen gender just one year after surgery – a point adopted by Badminton England.
A nuclear commission consultant, Dr. Ronald E. Goans, reviewed about a quarter of the substandard implants and reported that "erratic seed placement caused a number of cases to have elevated doses to the rectum, bladder or perineum".
For several years I worked as a sort of "internal commission consultant", providing scientific and technical support in areas such as environmental risk assessment to Commission services and to the national responsible authorities.
Research it has commissioned from consultants Amec claims that absorbing the costs would mean ticket prices rising by between 5% and 29% across routes from Britain to continental Europe – pushing more traffic towards shorter crossings and meaning more lorries on the roads.
Depending on the budget available, Brimble says it may also be worth commissioning a consultant to carry out some external security analysis prior to a project: "The benefit of that is you can task someone to assess a country without bias so you have a registered professional who can corroborate the decisions that you make".
