High cost of raw material procurement.
Together, European metropolises represent a very substantial public procurement market of about €10bn per year and this has a leverage effect on the private sector that very often aligns its own requirements with the public sector.
It may present an opportunity for substantial improvements in procurement efficiency and commodity availability.
A few medicines, like atenolol, ceftriaxone injection, diazepam, diclofenac, enalapril, erythromycin stearate, fluoxetine, metformin, and phenytoin were found to have substantial variation in procurement price by different agencies.
Aggravation can be assisted by amending the policies of Annex I countries, in consequence to allocate a substantial share of their procurement activities to Certified Emission Reductions from least developed countries.
As in the case of the [Afghan security forces], DOD also has a substantial backlog of war-related procurement that remains to be spent.
The IHSS programme supported the procurement of a substantial proportion of essential drugs (including ORS, ITNs, Zinc, cotrimoxazole, RDTs, ACTs, amoxicillin, and fansidar) and supplies (boots, bicycles, thermometers, ARTI timers, etc).
"We are left with no choice but to commence court proceedings as we believe the procurement process has ignored the substantial risks to taxpayers and customers of delivering FirstGroup's bid over the course of the franchise".
The Cabinet Office said Collington had delivered "substantial results in improving the capability of government procurement and in developing the strategy for shared services.
Mr Brown was implementing the findings of the review into public sector efficiency led by Peter Gershon which pointed at using information technology, better procurement and civil service practice to produce substantial savings.
