How to Use procurement in a Sentence

procurement

noun
  • That delayed the start of the procurement process, Martone said.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Both sued the state, alleging that the DHCS was not following its own procurement rules.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Shouldn’t one of them be the kind of person who kept track of the procurement and deployment of such things, the tools that smoothed over life’s little discomforts?
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Walmart, a company ruled by a zeal for low prices, opened a procurement center in the boomtown of Shenzhen.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Bamboo takes only five years to mature, so procurement is not hard.
    Tazeen Qureshy, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • Danielle Thompson, the city’s procurement director, said Inspire Dallas was the city’s second choice to oversee the project.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • They might be embedded in trade agreements, procurement rules, or within the codes of conduct of investors.
    Christy Hoffman, Fortune, 29 May 2023
  • But at the heart of the procurement networks are human agents, who are expensive and time-consuming to develop.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Some organ procurement agencies avoid this by owning their own planes.
    Malena Carollo and Ben Tanen, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • That could inform Russia’s tank procurement decisions in the mid- to long-term, which have focused on producing the interim T-90M tank rather than the T-14.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • UMass has managed to save more than $100 million through procurement strategies to prepare for the looming hurdles, Meehan said.
    Alison Kuznitz, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Wagner is reaching out around the world to supply itself and the U.S. is trying to stop it by restricting its procurement lifelines.
    Courtney Kube, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • That raised some questions over the procurement process by one resident and Councilmember Jamie Aldama.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Gilmore asked what advice or assistance was given to vendors in complying with the state's procurement law.
    Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Finance and procurement platform Approve analyzed the state of the world's priciest elite, looking at data from the 30 wealthiest people in the world.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 26 Dec. 2022
  • In some ways, technology is just as, or in some cases, more important to stop than the procurement of specific items.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 July 2023
  • Spending on procurement would rise sharply next year, including a 55 percent jump in Army funding to buy new missiles and a 47 percent jump for the Navy’s weapons purchases.
    John Ismay, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The New York Times adds that the Pentagon is increasing its procurement budget and working to solve supply bottlenecks.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And agencies would not be expected to use it in budget and procurement decisions that have little to no carbon impact.
    Coral Davenport, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In August, a scandal arose around the Ministry of Defense’s procurement of military jackets.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • For example, the procurement team may be tempted by deep discounts to buy higher quantities.
    Marcia Williams, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • On the expenditures side, Russia’s shift into a war economy has sparked a jump in public procurement.
    Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The workshops explain San Diego County’s contracting and procurement process.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
  • On top of this, new talent, Gen-Z and Millennials aren't being funneled into procurement roles.
    Edmund Zagorin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The division plans to hire three more procurement specialists in January.
    oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Apps can capture and aggregate a 360-degree view from the whole company, from finance to procurement and from supply to quality.
    Paul Hudson, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Two ministry officials — a deputy minister and head of procurement — were arrested over the winter after the reports of overpriced eggs.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But Ukraine also urgently needs weapons and has rolled back years of anticorruption measures in order to speed up procurement.
    Daria Mitiuk, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The same bureaucracy, according to a recent study, has slowed procurement of new weapons for the Bundeswehr generally.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Registering to do business with the city of Detroit Business owners who want to participate in the procurement process should first register at detroitmi.gov/supplier.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2023

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