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.
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.
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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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.
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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In recent weeks, the Beijing government has promised to end its ban on American beef, to try harder to respect intellectual-property rights, to abide by international rules for government procurement and to allow Chinese firms and citizens to buy more dollars and invest them abroad.
Mr. STEVEN SCHOONER (Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University): The fear at this point is there does not seem to be a centralized, sophisticated, well-organized planning institution within the government that's going to make good, rational, long-term decisions as to how the reconstruction is done before the government starts throwing money at the problems.
Some 40 countries have signed up to the government-procurement agreement (GPA) to open public contracts.
Local companies developing to these standards receive strong financial support via incentives, direct subsidies or government agency procurement policies, ensuring they quickly win the local market.
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Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.
Moreover, to the extent that firms devote resources to the procurement of government contracts, they must be taking resources from the innovative processes that made their products appealing to begin with.
In a statement on Monday, Charles Hurst said the vehicle had not been supplied for anyone individual and that the tyre contract was awarded by the government's central procurement agency rather than directly by the Fire Service.
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