Sentence examples for powerful procurement from inspiring English sources

Driven by the minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, the greatest progress so far has been made in central government, which already has several powerful procurement organisations, but this accounts for less than one-third of public sector purchasing spend.

In doing so, central civil government will develop an increasingly powerful procurement capability that will be able to ensure consistency of standards, a single point of contract management for common suppliers and an increased ability to manage markets for the benefit of the UK taxpayer.

This created a gravy train for some consultants and gave some powerful commercial and procurement directors a vested interest in briefing permanent secretaries and ministers for their own survival and against radical change.

In recent years, use of multi-attribute auctions has been consolidating as a powerful mechanism in procurement settings where multiple drivers affect the transaction outcome.

"They would have tremendous procurement power".

Meanwhile, two-thirds of formally untied aid contracts still go to firms from rich donor countries, says the report, as developing countries are squeezed out of the equation by powerful transnational companies and complex procurement systems.

The EU accession process, during which candidates must adopt rules on everything from food safety to public procurement, is mind-numbing but also powerful.

Last year, the European Network for Debt and Development (Eurodad) said developing country firms are often squeezed out of the equation by powerful multinational and donor country firms and complex procurement systems, even when aid is formally "untied".

Peter Singer, director of the 21st Century Defence Initiative at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington, DC, says that at a time of falling defence spending, UAS procurement and development may lack allies against powerful and conservative constituencies.

This implies another way to overcome the waiting game: action by a powerful end user, for example, a national government introducing a procurement program for a set of products requiring OLAE technology.

If the concept of value in public procurement was widened from its cost focus, it could become a powerful development tool.