Sentence examples for work on procurements from inspiring English sources

Sovereign immunity has its benefits: the state is a fat target if you're hungry for money — that's why so many outfits hire so many lobbyists and consultants to work on procurements and privatization and all that.

"One would be hard-pressed to discover anyone with a working knowledge of how federal contracts are awarded -- whether a career civil servant working on procurement or an independent academic expert -- who doesn't regard these allegations as being somewhere between highly improbable and utterly absurd," he observed.

Until English police forces work together on procurement in this way, it will be difficult to sympathise with senior officers' protests about the impact of funding reductions on frontline policing.

UK Universities are already good at working collaboratively on procurement.

They shared equipment and facilities, took a hard look at estates costs, worked together on procurement.

So, this year, we continued to work on developing our procurement values programme.

Too often in my work on commissioning and procurement, I hear stories about public sector approaches and practices that are unduly risk-averse or seem based on an attitude of "we can't do x because... "...

Black & Veatch Corp has started work on an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a 30 000 cubic metre per day water treatment plant in San Jose del Monte City, in the Philippines.

To that end, a steering committee was connected to the report; it included two civil servants from the regional cooperation body, two civil servants from the PTA (the president and a civil servant, not the employee working on the procurement), two civil servants from two municipalities, and the head of the county council board (also a civil servant) [43].

With the long tapers of afternoon light we are back in Pyongyang, and on the way to the hotel pass the first billboard we've seen, featuring The Peace Car, a handsome SUV the result of a joint-venture between Pyonghwa Motors of Seoul, a company owned by the late Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, and a North Korean government-owned corporation that also works on nuclear procurement.

In Philadelphia, city officials will work on the vexing problem of procurement of goods and services, which hamstrings many cities with rules and high costs, by putting together a process that would widen the field and increase the pool of organizations and companies that bid.