"But I think it is in example of the procurement process gone amok.
President Obama described it earlier this year as "an example of the procurement process gone amok".
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On a more serious note, he added, "I think it is an example of the procurement process gone amok.
Providing specific information about its selection "would violate the integrity of the procurement process," said Ms. Billingsley, the agency spokeswoman.
Concerns over the procurement process forced former commissioner of Sir Peter Hendy to order a review of the procurement process for the project's design.
He claimed the government had been left with little choice because of the terms of the procurement process devised by the previous Labour administration.
In his last letter to defense lawyers, Mr. Fouratt said the investigation had "revealed that pressure from the governor's office resulted in the corruption of the procurement process".
Modise and his friends, including the head of acquisitions in the defence force, Chippy Shaik, changed the goalposts of the procurement process radically to suit BAE.
The helicopters seemed destined for cancellation ever since President Obama described the project as "an example of the procurement process gone amok".
