Sentence examples for contracting failures from inspiring English sources

"Yet, as the much more recent universal credit project shows, there is still a long way to go before government departments can honestly say that they have learned and properly applied the lessons from previous contracting failures".

The boost in brass was a key recommendation from a blue-ribbon panel that last fall criticized the Army for contracting failures that undermined the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, wasted U.S. tax dollars, and sparked dozens of procurement fraud investigations.

If the charges stand up, it will be the first documented case of a contracting failure in Afghanistan directly linked to American deaths.

It said 2014 profits could be up to 20% below forecasts after its high profile UK government contract failures.

It simply beggars belief that the Ministry of Justice have docked only £1500 from ALS for contract failures, despite a catalogue of calamities and the fierce criticisms of the Public Accounts Committee".

(5) tail value at risk is the preferable risk measure for assessing Buyer Protection Plan viability, but it needs to be used with an assumption of Lomax contract failures to support profitable contracting.

The investigative unit that was uncovering outrageous cost overruns and contract failures - failures that put our troops in danger - was just shut down by the Republicans in Congress.

Invesco's investment manager Neil Woodford told Reuters in an interview he was annoyed by the debacle but said one contract failure should not damage the group's overall reputation.

And David Brockton and Guy Hewett at Execution Noble say: "Poor operational management or over-ambition ultimately lies behind this particular contract failure, but we do not believe it is symptomatic of a deeper problem".

(part 1 of 2) #mufc Under the terms of his six-year contract, failure to qualify for the 2014/15 Champions League entitles Moyes to take away on only one year's pay from the five years oustandng on his six-year contract.

The company admitted it had made "strategic mis-steps" in the past, by diversifying into areas of business where it had little expertise, as well as being caught out by changes in public sector contracts that put more risk for contract failure on the supplier.