Sentence examples for opening procurement from inspiring English sources

In this regard, UK trade agreements should cover tariff reductions, services liberalization, and opening procurement markets; there should also be a placeholder for negotiating future mutual recognition agreements for trade in specific goods and services.

In addition to education and economic development issues, CfA fellows in Pittsburgh have been able to open procurement procedures so that small businesses can more effectively compete for local government contracts.

But municipal and provincial governments in China, particularly in inland provinces, have strongly opposed opening their procurement projects to international competition.

Placing no limit on opening public procurement merely allows large suppliers to swallow up small suppliers all over the world.

The programme is run by ICF International, a company selected for the job by her administration after an open procurement process.

What, then, are the options for public managers who worry that in an open competition their service would not have the finance or trading record to win in open procurement?

Although the Conservative Party is not making the report public, it said the one of the key suggestions is that a more open procurement process could save at least £600m per year for government.

The NHS authority says "the specific business management model of a potential partner was more important than its organisational form in securing sustainability … Therefore there is no preferred organisational model and an open procurement should take place in order to test a wide range of innovative proposals from both NHS and independent sector providers".

"By facilitating closer collaboration, TfL and Bosch hope to support start-ups to develop a range of smart products and help them identify ways to bring them to market more quickly through open procurement".

In 2014, UNICEF procured $3.38 billion worth of supplies and services from all over the world, ensuring high quality and good value through fair and open procurement.

The 2009/10 NHS Operating Framework in England placed emphasis upon a need to review dental commissioning strategies in order that transparent and open procurement processes exist [ 9] and the current 2011/12 Operating Framework also calls upon PCTs to commission improvements in access to NHS dentistry and improve efficiency through effective contract management [ 14].