Sentence examples for setting procurement from inspiring English sources

Where such information is not forthcoming it has been proposed that a country's income could be used as a proxy for a country's price elasticity within the Ramsey approach to setting procurement prices in low-income countries [ 3].

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.

Progress has been slower than expected, says Jim Kim, head of the WHO's HIV/AIDS department, in part because of bottlenecks in setting up procurement and supply-chain management in poor countries.

And several policy analysts have proposed expanding existing government "set aside" procurement programs for small businesses to include co-ops and other democratized enterprises.

"The strength of the dollar, capacity usage -- there are plenty of issues affecting the long-term viability of the domestic steel industry," said Brian VanDommelen, who sets steel procurement strategies for Steelcase, the big furniture maker in Grand Rapids, Mich.

By matching the winning bidder and thus the winning bid, where available, to the main data set, unbiased procurement backlog data are available for all companies.

We primarily consider B2B transactions in a reverse auction, that is, a procurement setting.

Economic historians have suggested an even more fundamental role of public procurement in setting the pace of technological change, reporting how defense-related procurement has had a major impact on the emergence and diffusion of many general purpose technologies developed in the United States in the 20th century.

Re "How to Distribute AIDS Drugs," by Carol Bellamy (Op-Ed, March 26): Unicef's offer to take the lead in setting up a global procurement and distribution system for AIDS drugs is a significant step in the fight against AIDS.

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].

He said that service industries, manufacturing and mining sectors would become more open to foreign investors and promised that, contrary to most expectations and previous experience, foreign companies would not be discriminated against on license applications, setting standards or government procurement.