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.
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].
They are also working on streamlining the procurement processes for funding IT projects.
UK Universities are already good at working collaboratively on procurement.
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.
Gulp.One of the biggest projects Cambridge is currently working on is a web-based procurement system for the partners and customers of Lucent Technologies, a giant telecoms-equipment firm that was spun off from AT&T about three years ago.
They shared equipment and facilities, took a hard look at estates costs, worked together on procurement.
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.
I also interviewed the civil servants working on public transport or public transport procurement issues.
The Sunday Times claimed the former head of army procurement boasted about having spent the past 18 months working on behalf of an Israeli arms firm and had successfully lobbied the MoD to release £500m for a helicopter safety programme.
