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
  • The threat from Iran is driving procurement from the Emirates.
    Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Ivy Mitchell, one of HPM’s procurement leaders on the project, said that the goal is to pair up contractors large and small to work in teams on the projects.
    al, 30 June 2022
  • The way the money works is each product has costs built in, from shipping to procurement to printing.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Both sued the state, alleging that the DHCS was not following its own procurement rules.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The war with Ukraine set some of Russia’s ambitious procurement goals back by quite a number of years.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The true reason for the procurement posting is unclear.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • These costs were far less than NASA would have paid as part of a traditional procurement process.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • That new process would be run outside of the police department by the city procurement office.
    Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The quotes turned in were in the same layout and font, and used the same language, the city’s procurement specialist wrote in a November 2016 email to Turner-Diggs.
    Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • And that's in part thanks to Este's procurement of a fake I.D. claiming her baby sis was actually 29.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Duke said the rate increase is needed to cover its cost of procurement and delivery.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Bamboo takes only five years to mature, so procurement is not hard.
    Tazeen Qureshy, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • The five-year plan estimates a total of $26 billion for F-35 procurement.
    Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But for decades, it’s been managed by a back-office function tucked into procurement or HR.
    Kevin Akeroyd, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Details can be found on the county’s procurement notices and awards website.
    Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • As the main contractor for the F-35, Lockheed is in charge of the military’s biggest procurement program.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • They might be embedded in trade agreements, procurement rules, or within the codes of conduct of investors.
    Christy Hoffman, Fortune, 29 May 2023
  • The team also argues that procurement laws prohibit the team and Tempe from providing a copy of the proposal.
    Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The procurement goals could go a long way in transforming the clean energy markets, experts said.
    New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The bright side is that Apple’s procurement prowess is unlikely to leave many sales unfilled.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • States also engaged in a bidding war for the procurement of critical supplies in spring 2020.
    Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Matthew Perry’s death probe ties people to ketamine procurement, but charges still unclear, sources say.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Conducting two separate procurements means more time and more money, when the city has neither to spare.
    Carlo Scissura, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
  • However, most of its new business comes from partnerships with AP and procurement platforms that embed its tech into their systems.
    Ryan Lawler, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In the case of large distortions that are hard to measure, alternative measures, such as bans on public procurements, could prove appropriate.
    Alden Abbott, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024

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