Whether it is for reporting, procurement, accounting, equal rights or many other purposes, part of the contract any business makes with the government is to abide by the rules.
We justify our choice of Brazil's federal public institutions and its suppliers because at the federal level, reporting procurement pricing information is mandatory.
They report procurement of 66% of their isolates from male patients and 34% from females.
Of 8 country teams reporting inadequate procurement or distribution of ACS, 6 cited the lack of policy or NEML listing for fetal lung (or other lack of alignment between supply chain policy and ACS recommendations) as a direct cause of lack of integration into supply chain system.
Other data come from the country offices that report procurement prices to the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as international organization and procurement agencies, such as Mission Pharm, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), International Dispensary Association Foundation (IDA).
Kenneth Merten, the US ambassador to Haiti at the time, allegedly reported a procurement "gold rush" in the wake of the tragedy.
There are diversity metrics to report, complex "procurement integrity" guidelines to follow, and strict environmental protection obligations to uphold.
Most of these miscellaneous transactions were reported by procurement agencies and we suspect many of these miscellaneous reports are actually purchases made by GFATM recipients.
In our analysis we identified several donor factors which were significantly associated with non-transplantation: increasing age, increasing ICU stay, overweight/obesity, liver not reported for procurement, history of smoking, male gender, a primarily non-traumatic cause of brain death and high levels of sodium, blood glucose, amylase and lipase.
Establish clear performance benchmarks and reporting mechanism for procurement and delivery of supplies in emergency circumstances.
The report stated, "The SBA awarded four of the six high dollar procurements, reported as small business procurements, to large companies at the time of the procurements".
