Procurement Quotes


You need to understand what you are buying, and why, how it will affect your business, and what the potential risks are. That detailed understanding may be beyond the scope of a procurement department. - Owen Williams


You need time and a forum to find out [the marketing staff's] philosophy and needs. You can get that through the procurement department, but it's better to have it directly from the marketing staff. Any good agency can develop ideas that are on-strategy, but you need to meet the CMO and know what kind of ideas will resonate with him. - Larry Deutsch


You could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system. It's a very irresponsible way to handle sensitive information. - David Albright


What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing. - Theresa May


We've been struggling to try to understand India's gas centrifuge program and one of the surprises there was that it's a program that really does depend on foreign procurement. - David Albright


We're working on a couple of bids right now where, in both cases, the procurement cycle has extended beyond what we normally would have thought it would--we're talking months in terms of slippage of this particular type of procurement. There's a lot more checking and double checking, and making sure that all the regulatory issues that we have to be concerned about are properly addressed. - Howard Mains


We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities. - Tamara Faulkner


We will do everything we can to find the money, not just for procurement but for training, for personnel and for the necessary power projection which is at the heart of America's ability to lead the world. - Newt Gingrich


We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation. - Andy Burnham


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