Contracts like this (common in defense procurement) reward speed, cost containment and quality of work.
The application, which includes algorithms, tutorials, and simple calculators, has been designed by transplant procurement coordinators to speed up the process of organ donation and at the same time to be as accurate as possible for the process.
Actually, if the problem was simplicity and speed of procurement, wouldn't it be better to have simpler procurement rules and speed?
While the Cabinet Office trumpet their success in introducing lean processes to speed up procurement decision-making, 90% of business respondents to a Confederation of British Industry survey found that procurement had not changed at all or had got worse.
Recommendations from Uganda's citizen hearings include ensuring universal access to family planning, a review of procurement processes to help speed them up, improved emergency obstetric and newborn care at health centres, and prioritising the recruitment and retention of healthcare workers.
These can relate to the use of special procurement procedures, conflicts between speed and quality or short- and long-term goals, and proper institutional set-up (Jha et al. 2010).
An economic stimulus package approved by Parliament last week will strengthen the coast guard by speeding up procurement of helicopters and seven more patrol ships.
"For government, it's a new way to find out what the market has to offer in advance so that we can speed up formal procurement times".
The speed of the procurement process did not enable consortia of SMEs to form to bid for a Civil Service Learning and Development contract, according to another small business.
Consider the mother in Sierra Leone who needs medicine for her sick daughter: paying a small fee to the staff at her local health clinic might speed up the procurement of drugs, whereas going through the formal and often inefficient channels could put the girl's life at risk.
