Sentence examples for procurement guidance from inspiring English sources

It has launched a back-to-work support service to address the needs of mothers and has included information on flexible working and social value into procurement guidance for suppliers.

The Cabinet Office said it had already halved the length of the average procurement process from 208 working days to 102, slimmed down procurement guidance, stripped out "unnecessary procedures" and used "bulk-buying" powers to get the best value from suppliers - something it said had saved £3.8bn in 2012/13.

Here, it will be important to build on existing commercial and procurement guidance to include considerations surrounding interoperability to ensure effective future exchange of information between organisations.

33 As our work indicates, this can only be achieved if some centralised procurement guidance surrounding system accreditation exists, as individual organisations are likely to seek short-term value (while setting up interoperable systems form the start tends to be more costly in the short term).

These standards, referred to as Uniform Guidance, include procurement standards related to code of conduct, competition, procurement procedures, cost and price analysis, procurement records, contract administration, and contract provisions.

Speaking before a visit to Israel, Matthew Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister, said new government guidance on procurement was designed to stop "damaging and counterproductive local foreign policies undermining our national security".

The new guidance on procurement, combined with changes we are making to how pension pots can be invested, will help prevent damaging and counterproductive local foreign policies undermining our national security".

10 One of her principal functions is the conclusive determination of questions of fact for the guidance of procurement officers in withholding awards of government contracts to those she finds to be violators for three years from the date of the breach.

"The UK government should look at whether an institution built along the principles of the US SBA is needed - bringing together business support, export guidance, public procurement, and other small business functions into one place, providing a powerful small business voice within government".

Where medical devices are controlled it is largely within disease specific programmes such as tuberculosis, malaria or HIV/AIDS with the Department of Health or international donors guiding procurement decisions rather than guidance from a national regulatory authority.

In any event, in view of concerns about the possibility of killing in the course of organ procurement, physicians wanted clear legal guidance for determining when someone had died.