Sentence examples for procurement about from inspiring English sources

We will find them!" Sergei V. Stepashin, the chairman of the federal accounting chamber, Russia's main auditing body, told the news service Interfax on Wednesday that a trillion rubles a year, or around $31.5 billion, is being siphoned from Russia's budget in the course of state procurement — about one-fourteenth of the entire budget, he estimated.

"We try to operate in Internet time, not Washington time," said David J. Barram, administrator of the General Services Administration, which oversees the procurement of about $40 billion in annual goods and services for federal agencies.

Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union's Domestic Agency for ITER, is responsible for the procurement of about 50% of the ITER blanket first wall (FW), called normal heat flux FW.

At a panel about the uses of so-called big data in advertising, Scott Howe, president and chief executive at Acxiom, a marketing technology and services company, predicted that in the next five years advertisers will have to "stop thinking about media procurement and start thinking about data procurement".

So, Nicholson's endorsement of GS1 codes, as part of a more general initiative to "raise our game" in procurement, is about 20 years overdue.

The Sunday Times claimed the former head of army procurement boasted about having spent the past 18 months working on behalf of an Israeli arms firm and had successfully lobbied the MoD to release £500m for a helicopter safety programme.

Shelley Stewart Jr., who, as vice president for supply chain management at the Raytheon Company, oversees the corporation's $7 billion of annual purchasing, said there was a lot of fear among procurement managers about online purchasing sites -- "how real they are and how long they'll be around".

Emails to a procurement manager about an auditing tool sent right after a timely procurement scandal would all look nearly identical.

A procurement decision about a CRM system is heavily influenced by the initial purchase cost rather than the effect of the operating cost and utilization over the lifetime.

Articles were scrutinized for country of origin, sample size, recall period, prevalence rates and associations, influencing factors, medicines used, self-medicated health complaints, sources of drug information, recommendation and procurement, knowledge about medicines, and adverse drug reactions.

"Right now we're raising the procurement for about 5 million polio vaccines, and that will be for two rounds of polio immunization" said Ms. Lwin.