Sentence examples for procurement up from inspiring English sources

"In hindsight, we should have started the procurement earlier, we should have finished the procurement up earlier," Mr. Roberts said after a meeting of the board's transit committee on Monday.

The government said it will drive down the cost of police procurement by up to £350m, with savings to be made through forces merging their back office functions.

That would have steered them to the giant purchasing organizations that control the procurement of up to $300 billion in drugs, devices and supplies annually for some 5,000 health care facilities.

In response to losses of Massachusetts service personnel to roadside bombs, Kennedy became vocal on the issue of Humvee vulnerability, and co-sponsored enacted 2005 legislation that sped up production and Army procurement of up-armored Humvees.

They included centralizing some of the university's widely dispersed procurement operations (up to $45 million) and information technology functions (up to $19 million) and simplifying its organizational structure (up to $12 million).

Federal spending on salaries, wages and procurement makes up close to 20 percent of the economies of Maryland and Virginia, according to an analysis by the Pew Center on the States.

Its ten-item list of priorities covers everything from grain-procurement prices (up) to the corporate-tax burden imposed by VAT (down), taking in infrastructure, post-earthquake reconstruction, health care, education and environmental protection.Yet even if this list reads like a national letter to Santa Claus, the package is still a giant step in the right direction.

Government taxes, inefficient procurement, mark-ups along the distribution chain, and, in some middle income countries, fee-splitting between pharmacists and physicians, inflate drug prices [ 32].

For example, the role of environmental (management) standards (e.g. ISO 14001) towards the public sector's sustainability agenda [14]; the role of stakeholders in shaping municipal energy and climate planning processes [15, 16]; and the role of public procurement in setting up a coordinated freight distribution of municipal goods [17, 18].

It involved recruitment of Supply and Logistic staff, staff training, and setting up procurement procedures and processes, procuring UNICEF goods and services, and supervising new Supply and Logistics staff.

The President could tighten up procurement regulations to ensure that fewer of our procurement dollars are spent overseas.