Sentence examples for procurement down from inspiring English sources
It breaks the procurement down into lots, but warns that the structure could change in response to feedback from suppliers.
Government personnel has been cut by almost 30%, and the cost of procurement is down 20%.
For five years or so the Pentagon may be able to do most of what it wants, simply by slowing down procurement programmes.
The largest savings come from reducing Army end strength by 40,000 ($11.9 billion); shifting low-end Air Force fighter planes into the reserves ($5.4 billion); reforming health benefits ($4.7 billion); cutting 58,000 Pentagon civilian employees ($4.7 billion); reducing the size of headquarters ($4.5 billion); and slowing down procurement of the F-35 combat aircraft ($4 billion).
You need to make this a collaborative effort, not a top-down procurement project".
They're often more than just the military version of concept cars at an auto show — there are mock-ups and technology demonstrators to help spark chatter between people all up and down the procurement food chain.
Making it happen, however, will be no jog in the park.Even fierce critics of Mr Sarkozy's interventionism admit that Europe's naval shipyards need to consolidate to bring down defence-procurement costs.
Mr Lockhart reckons that private failures are down to bad procurement, and highlights successful examples such as the Sussex police, who contracted out some of their guard work and seem happy.
The potential cost of procuring services for the cross-government identity assurance programme has been slashed from £240m to £30m, which Bracken put down to the procurement now being more geared towards a commissioning model.
"It's wrong to slow down this critical procurement process," said the Kansas Republican Brownback about the Pentagon's bidding extension for EADS.
He said his department could save £1.5bn by driving down the cost of procurement, £100m from IT programmes, £60m from reducing energy consumption and £555m by reducing staff sickness and absence.
