Sentence examples for procurement performance from inspiring English sources

Ian Taylor, director for procurement performance at the Department for Education and Skills, agrees.

Comments are also invited about increasing transparency within supply chains for major contracts and capital infrastructure programmes across Scotland and addressing poor performing suppliers The origins of Scotland's proposed procurement reforms date back to businessman John McClelland's review of procurement performance in Scotland's public sector in 2006.

The Organ Donation European Quality System (ODEQUS) is a 3-year project (from October 2010 to September 2013) co-financed by the European Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC20091108) which aims to define a methodology to evaluate organ procurement performance at the hospital level.

Following the cancellation, the Defence Secretary Liam Fox used the Nimrod MRA4 procurement as an example of the worst of MOD procurement performance: "The idea that we ever allow ourselves into a position where something that was originally Nimrod 2000 – where we ordered [21] was reduced to nine, spent £3.8bn and we still weren't close to getting the capability – is not to happen again".

Our research suggests that, if this is to happen, a debate is needed about the operation of a market in primary care provision, including the trade-offs between transparent processes, fair procurement, performance assurance and cost.

Where PEPFAR has provided more direct provision of services, local partners may need further training in such key management areas as health planning, M&E, procurement, performance management, and financial management.

This article examines how alternative regulatory designs influence such investments, and simulates the procurement and performance of distribution transformers under differing regulatory scenarios, to demonstrate the enormous potential benefits of a performance-based regulation scheme that targets network losses.

13) The supply or procurement of performance enhancing drugs should be criminalised and those in positions of authority who are found to be involved in such practices should be banned for life from any involvement in sport.

Although all possess certain strengths, each country displayed weaknesses in some of the following areas: budgeting for vaccine purchase, national procurement practices, performance of national regulatory agencies, and technical capacity for vaccine planning and advocacy.

The UKA proposals also include a global public register of all drugs tests, that the supply and procurement of performance-enhancing drugs be criminalised and for national federations to pay compensation to athletes denied by drug cheats in what it called "the new clean athletics era".

With Whitehall increasingly contracting out tasks to the private sector, Maude has argued that the civil service needs to improve radically its procurement and commissioning performance.