Sentence examples for procurement initiatives from inspiring English sources

The many excellent local and joint procurement initiatives need to be built on and applied rapidly throughout the NHS.

ING also announced that it expected to save 300 million euros a year by 2015 through so-called procurement initiatives, which will look to centralize purchasing across the firm to reduce costs.

Co-hosting the publication of datasets will save approximately £0.5m. 3. Improving procurement Initiatives such as improving data, aggregating demand across departments and renegotiating contracts with suppliers have helped to improve procurement.

That's obviously incredibly worrying with regards to climate change" The table, now in its fourth year, assesses universities on the basis of seven policy areas, including carbon management and sustainable procurement initiatives, and four performance indicators, such as waste and carbon emissions per head.

Southwest One, a joint-venture company between IBM, Somerset county council, Taunton Deane council, and Avon and Somerset police, has produced £12m in procurement savings, with another £165m savings opportunities in the pipeline and an aim to deliver £200m over the 10-year contract with procurement initiatives across a wide range of commodities, from care services to IT.

The study showed that sustainable procurement initiatives have rarely been used in the Canadian construction industry.

Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, has announced a public sector energy procurement initiative designed to promote green energy and to create savings for the taxpayer.

With no new procurement initiative on the horizon, future defence budgets will consist largely of the cost of earlier arms purchases, military pay and pensions and the armed forces' operating expenses.

It is also likely that the summit will endorse greater transparency in public procurement, citing initiatives in eastern Europe, Colombia and Mexico.

Similarly, if procurement and business initiatives are to succeed, the government must set market signals in all that it does and not just from the departments who are directly tasked with green policy making.

The military's M-Gator, with blackout lights and keyless ignition, resulted from a Pentagon effort to reform procurement by encouraging initiative in the ranks and purchases off the shelf.