Outsourcing customer service and IT maintenance work to Indian subcontractors is a growing trend in the UK, with many companies attracted by India's low labour costs and highly skilled workforce.
The Public Accounts Committee has accused the Housing Executive of being "out of control" in the way it managed maintenance contracts.
Functions that are outsourced by most companies payroll, IT, maintenance, janitorial are often performed in-house (at very high cost).
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Even though the Sava River bridge is in operation, it requires constant maintenance and reinforcement.
Bournemouth Borough Council has advised people not to use the reef while it undergoes the maintenance.
With a top speed of 14 mph it was anything but fast, but it was virtually maintenance free.
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And it is high maintenance, requiring frequent touch-ups and spot checks for smudging.
It will keep maintenance costs down as the sheep will 'cut' the paddocks.
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The Army will let go more than 3, 000 temporary and contract employees and beginning in April, it will cancel maintenance at depots which will force 5, 000 more layoffs.
According to Defense News, Israel is planning to end its involvement in the Arrow anti-missile program because it feels the maintenance costs of its Arrow batteries are too high.
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And everyday that it's in 'survival and maintenance', every day that it's coasting along waiting for you to figure out what you're going to do with it next, it's aging by another day and getting older and more worn.
Most of the multi-billion-pound investment programme that it trumpets is routine maintenance rather than upgrading.
Like many state park sites, it suffers from deferred maintenance because of decadeslong funding cuts, the report said.
Google Reader set out to tackle this problem but only reached a certain point before it was put into maintenance.
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However the finance organization typically finds it difficult to justify maintenance costs of the millions of lines of legacy code (read past).
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And the Volt is likely to fare even better on maintenance since it only uses the engine about 40% of the time.
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Lots of teams are installing it, largely because maintenance is so easy.
McGinnis has a strict privacy policy and never rents or shares the list, period, so it is very low maintenance to sign up.
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That plug-and-play model curbs outlays on servers, storage, networking equipment, on-site IT staff and juicy maintenance contracts precious savings for small-and mid-sized companies looking to do more with less.
The oil drilling vessel, which has no engines of its own, was being towed for maintenance when it ran aground during a powerful storm on New Year's Eve.
Her team will spend a week to 10 days looking at the bridge, talking to the truck driver whose vehicle hit it, and examining maintenance documents and previous accident reports.
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from jails, and the Pentagon has said it has delayed scheduled maintenance on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
Of the 15 percent or so that are considered to be sort of manmade, if you will, most of the time, it was lack of maintenance, lack of proper maintenance that caused a collapse like this.
But critics have accused the firm of neglecting maintenance as it funnels oil revenue into government social programmes, especially after an explosion in August at the Amuay refinery, the country's largest, in which 42 people were killed.
Note that our definition of the global tech market in this report includes business and government purchases of computer equipment, communications equipment, software, IT consulting services, and IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance services, but does not include purchases of telecommunications services.
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That balance will change as the cost of LED bulbs comes down they've already fallen 30% since 2009 but for now it's lower maintenance expenses that are allowing companies to recoup the upfront costs in less than three years, a key threshold for bean counters.
It has called on the government to set up an emergency capital highways maintenance fund, as it did following the floods which hit swathes of the country in summer 2007.
It probably makes more money from its interests in airline catering (in which it owns 20% of world market), ground handling, maintenance and air cargo than it does from actually flying.
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