So has Steven Schooner, co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University.
Unlike Democrats, Republicans support clean energy through regulatory reform, government procurement mandates and market-based incentive programs.
Rich countries want firm rules on government procurement, to replace the vague existing code.
At the same time government procurement, which is the mainstay of imported brands, has been weak.
Other issues include further investment liberalization, government procurement access, intellectual property procedures, and general trade rules.
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Congress is considering several microeconomic reforms, such as streamlining government procurement and environmental licences.
Steven Schooner is the co-director of the government procurement law program at George Washington University's law school.
It has been losing money in life insurance and government procurement for years.
After hearing more about FIST, the committee will have the opportunity to examine how these principles might apply to UK government procurement.
Government procurement -- if we are allowing foreign countries to bid on projects in the United States of America, we want reciprocity.
Conditioning U.S. government procurement practices is within the purview of this Congress.
Talks on freeing trade in services and on government procurement are stalled.
In addition, the improved safeguards provided by this order to strengthen compliance with anti-trafficking laws will promote economy and efficiency in Government procurement.
Independent pork-fighting groups or conservatives concerned with the integrity of competition in government procurement should re-evaluate their stance based on this new information.
The provisions are modeled on the False Claims Act, which allows whistleblowers who report fraud related to government procurement to share in any government recovery.
Government procurement rules favour black-controlled firms in media, transport and retailing, but annual state spending of some 100 billion rand cannot all be diverted to black firms.
Independent pork-fighting groups -- or conservatives concerned with the integrity of competition in government procurement -- should re-evaluate their stance based on this new information.
Another effort involves looking into government procurement contracts to find fraud.
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But another perverse idea floating around Capitol Hill is to limit stimulus-related purchases to countries that have signed the World Trade Organisation's agreement on government procurement.
The Institute of Directors is among those bluntly saying it's shocked, and that government procurement has to be whiter than white or else companies won't bid.
The problem of cost overruns lies not so much in the F-22 itself as in the entire government procurement and development process, an area that badly needs reform.
Other questions were on training and upskilling women workers, encouraging the use of new technology in the UK through government procurement, support for young people with special educational needs.
Barack Obama has pinned his hopes for recovery on a doubling of exports, a goal that China's many barriers to trade, from discriminatory government procurement to the undervalued yuan, impede.
Businesses have also become less reliable defenders of China, rankled by measures such as an edict last autumn which, according to American technology companies, virtually shuts them out of Chinese government procurement.
Some of these rules make sense on their own terms (who could be against swift customs clearance or transparent government procurement?) but they would be costly for poor countries to implement and monitor.
It pitches for business much like any other firm that relies on government procurement, basing a tender on its past history with a customer and its best guess as to how rivals will bid.
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The OCC said at that time that allowing banks to contract and pay the consultants directly would allow the process to get started quickly rather than having to go through a government procurement process.
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Despite talk of new government procurement standards and at least one controversial bill that would implement them, the Obama administration has been dragging its feet on any cybersecurity regulation that would risk hampering the economy.
Probably only if the government were able to offer risk-adjusted returns at least equal to those they currently earn which, given traditional government procurement policies and the fact that drug-industry profits are a political hot potato, it seems unlikely to do.
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