Sentence examples for while procurement from inspiring English sources

While procurement provides the public with services, it is not always about securing value for money for taxpayers, as the business secretary at the time, Vince Cable, acknowledged in 2012.

While procurement software can help make that happen by linking suppliers and buyers more closely, it is not yet affordable enough for most companies to risk the investment, said Frank Ruane, director of corporate purchasing and materials management for Olympic Steel, a company in Bedford Heights, Ohio that processes unfinished steel for manufacturers.

While procurement of the AMPV fleet would cost over $5 billion, the Government Accountability Office estimated the GCV fleet would cost $37 billion.

While procurement of consumables for image processing is less of a logistical bottleneck than is the maintenance of the machine itself, analogue processing remains less desirable owing to challenges in storing the films, disposing of waste, and performing distant quality assurance on the images.

Much of the neglected native biodiversity is highly nutritious and exploring these food sources could help provide sustainable solutions to diversifying diets, tackling malnutrition problems, and promoting agricultural development through local food procurement, while also promoting biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation and resilience.

While the procurement regulations concentrate upon healthcare commissioners, the Competition Commission is spreading its tentacles into NHS providers.

A sustainability or public affairs department may do good work with the community on the one hand, while the procurement department rides rough-shod over small suppliers or the finance department cuts jobs or disinvests from a local area.

While European procurement rules, which call for all new contracts to be advertised and open to any bidders, are intended to prevent corruption and encourage competition, in the new world of mutuals they can make it difficult for new businesses to survive in the face of the traditional big outsourcing companies.

It was demonstrated that a terminal allowed delivery of feedstock 4 11% lower in MC, while reducing procurement costs by 11 32%.

This discount level reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 28.2% while raising procurement costs by 3.7% relative to a non-preference mechanism.

With tepid growth, consumers and firms have tightened their spending, while government procurement is decimated by budget cuts.