Sentence examples for major procurements from inspiring English sources

More broadly, mistakes in rail franchising are indicative of a bigger problem across Whitehall, which has bungled major procurements for years.

"Having been thrown in at the deep end, dealing with major procurements that will have a real impact on the development of the Olympic site and the Olympics has been an amazing opportunity that I have relished.

There has been a growing interest in the role of a SIAM provider for the service towers model of an IT estate, with a couple of major procurements giving it a fresh momentum, and hints that it could provide a lead for the wider public sector.

"The top 20 major procurement programmes have a cumulative delay of 483 months.

The top 15 major procurement projects are £8.8 billion over budget and delayed by a total of 32 years.

He admitted that the last major procurement of equipment for the army was more than two decades ago, but said sophisticated equipment was not essential for counter-insurgency.

These massive IT-based systems were a great success and showed that TfL, unlike many parts of Whitehall, was able to manage major procurement exercises and computer systems.

In early 2004, SSM (the Defense Industries Undersecretariat ) Turkey,s major procurement agency) cancelled three tenders (UAVs, Main Battle Tanks and attack helicopters) all of which had American companies in contention.

"Government cannot afford to let up on ensuring that all major procurement projects, from nuclear sites to tidal barrages and airports, all use British steel," he said.

Over the next few weeks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates must assert authority over the Pentagon bureaucracy and push through the major procurement cuts he has long hinted at.

But military contractors have begun moving into the southeastern part of the city as a result of a decision to move the Navy's major procurement agency to the old Navy Yard along the Potomac River.