Sentence examples for costly procurement from inspiring English sources

He said the costly procurement was a lesson to the Home Office, which should ensure that all of its contracts were properly benchmarked before they were awarded.

The coalition was clear about saving money through a less costly procurement process and opening it up to SMEs, which, to its credit, it has done and continues to do so.

He said not all the activities listed would necessarily be included in the final scope of the contract, but if the force added other activities later a "new and costly procurement exercise" would be needed.

This spatial resource sharing policy serves as an alternative not only to the need for costly spectrum licensing but also the costly procurement of additional base stations in conventional cell-shrinking strategies.

Among the most costly procurement items in the next two decades are the 12 strategic missile submarines that the Navy plans to buy to replace the 14 aging ones in the present fleet.

"Even those prospective arms purchasers in the developing world with significant financial assets have exercised restraint and caution before embarking upon new and costly weapons procurement endeavors," he wrote.

They will almost certainly be built entirely or mostly in Australia in what will be the country's most complex and costly defence procurement, worth more than $40bn over the program's life.

It is also fixing the costly botched procurement of eight heavy-lift Chinook helicopters, grounded in 2001 because they could not be certified as safe.Other big European allies are deployed in the quietish north of Afghanistan, and reluctant to become involved in the fight in the south.

It has become the costliest Pentagon procurement project ever and its performance has been disappointing.

Each of the proposed new platforms has its own lobby and its own well-argued case.Take the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft (JSF), so stealthy that on a radar it seems to be no bigger than a golf ball, whose total price tag of more than $200 billion makes it the most costly arms-procurement programme ever.

Costly and fashionable procurement is indulged at the expense of boots on the ground.