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They can also promote this process of restructuring through joint procurement programs.

The business groups, they added, had incomplete information that did not include large cost savings from areas like joint procurement of supplies and services.

The discussions include not only control of specific operations, but also economies of scale through joint procurement and training.

Benefits can be achieved through joint procurement by leveraging volumes of spend to negotiate better contract terms.

The act created the Munitions Board, which began to reorganize these major supply categories into joint procurement agencies.

In addition these core missions, it also offers joint procurement programs, joint academic initiatives and campus public safety training.

The EU figures include the spending for joint projects such as the Eurofighter and joint procurement of equipment.

Shared services, joint procurement and partnership working are all important options for public sector managers looking to become more efficient and effective in their delivery of services.

The important issue in this context is to evaluate the strategy for stockpiling vaccines and to work towards the joint procurement of the vaccines by the Member States in future.

On 24 July 2009, the seven European nations announced that they would continue with the A400M program, and form a joint procurement agency to renegotiate the contract with EADS.

It would, moreover, make sense in the future - for reasons of economics as much as any other reason - to have these standards in the joint procurement of technical systems, which can be very expensive.

Moreover, NEC will not be able to realize the full benefit of joint procurement with Packard Bell because the computers NEC sells in Japan use proprietary technology that does not conform to the world personal-computer standard.

With NATO member states just days away from awarding a military contract for 4 billion euros to a trans-Atlantic consortium of aerospace companies, a new era of joint procurement may be dawning for the alliance, defense experts said on Thursday.

I think we would benefit from a joint command structure along the lines of the IDF, a slimmed down joint procurement strategy operated to best commercial practise, and the combined arms land-sea-air philosophy of the United States Marine Corps.

In mid-2012, the MTA (LIRR) issued a joint procurement request for itself and MNRR for a total of up to 676 M-9 and 160 M-9A railcars, set for delivery between 2016 and 2020.

As of July 19, 2005, the OICW Increment One RFP was put on an eight-week hold, with an indication given that the program was being restructured as a joint procurement program including the Army and unnamed other branches.

In July 1998 a formal statement of intent was signed between the governments of the UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Spain which, subject to the UK's selection of Meteor, agreed to work towards joint procurement of the same missile.

For this, the European Union needs in particular the further development of its own security and defence policy, with joint research, a joint procurement office, shared defence forces capable of acting autonomously, and joint operations funded from the EU's Budget.

First, the Commission will present a health security initiative before the end of this year reinforcing our coordination capacities, and second, the Commission will also initiate a joint procurement mechanism for pandemic vaccines and antivirals for those Member States who wish to join.

Naturally, good cooperation and joint procurement are advantageous in the event of a pandemic, helping to achieve price reductions. However, if the authorisation of new medicines is rushed through in order to deal with illusory pandemics, then we are faced with an enormous problem.