Is that standard practice for the Trust's procurement of services?
Some health professionals do receive gifts from patients and/or relatives in order to facilitate procurement of services such as blood for transfusion, speedy consultations and clinical reviews.
The FreeMarkets online auction can accomplish in a day what once could take 30 days of negotiations, said Larry D. Ingram, vice president for procurement and services at Diebold, a North Canton, Ohio, maker of automated teller machines and vaults.
He also said the organisation was seeking out local procurement for the goods and services it needs.
Simply put, Rearden Commerce offers a platform for managing business travel and services procurement for "prosumers" (professionals who are also consumers at work) in an automated mode, the same way a personal secretary would.
Grupa Lotos has given Technip a €70 million lumpsum contract for the engineering and procurement services for a new solvent deasphalting unit at a refinery in Gdansk, Poland.
A special kind of partnership UNICEF offers is procurement services for key commodities for children – such as vaccines, essential drugs, bednets, ARVs, and school supplies to help accelerate and attain child-specific MDGs.
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG's Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract for engineering, procurement and related services for a new grassroots molybdenum refinery located near Mejillones in northern Chile.
Solent Supplies Team (SST), which provides a procurement service for a group of NHS trusts on the south coast, has said it wants provide a "total digital pen solution" to capture handwritten data notes and forms.
AMEC has secured a contract for program and project management, engineering and procurement services for the Enbridge Southern Access and Southern Lights Pipeline projects.
