procurement

Example Sentences

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The new measures should also encourage leading drug distributors to organize retailers for joint procurement, expanding upstream bargaining power.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beijing has disclosed—and the Journal has previously reported—that many officers were buying and selling ranks, siphoning funds meant for arms procurement and improperly leasing military land for property projects.

From The Wall Street Journal

She added: "It's not good enough. I think there needs to be more investigation and scrutiny of how contracts are awarded and the whole procurement process. More due diligence is definitely required."

From BBC

He also said that unlike deals the EU has struck with other partners, there were no chapters on government procurement, on energy and raw materials, or on the liberalisation of investment in manufacturing sectors.

From Barron's

Fraudulent procurement practices could also have been a factor in the dockside-sinking of a prototype of a new Chinese submarine, the Pentagon said last year.

From The Wall Street Journal