The RCN says other potential areas of savings should be looked at including procurement, drug waste and expensive PFI contracts.
Mr Atwood told Good Morning Ulster that the investigation would look at issues including fraud and procurement to determine whether there were "any further causes for concern".
For his part, Mr Suthep has overseen the bidding for several much-publicised projects, including highway deals and procurement for the state-owned telephone company.
"We will now seek to achieve these objectives through a number of alternative routes including consideration of conventional procurement to deliver some early phases of the programme and reviewing how the later phases might also be delivered, " the spokesperson added.
The capitalplanning and investment control process includes all stages of capital programming, including planning, budgeting, procurement, management, and assessment.
He's promised greater oversight of the procurement process, including intermediate reviews of weapons projects and the use of "shadow teams" to ensure that contracts awards are decided fairly.
The SBA has responsibility under section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) for overseeing the federal small business procurement goaling process, including the government-wide, cumulative 3 percent goal for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in federal contracting and subcontracting.
In both cases, companies begin to experience the cost-saving benefits of employing an array of industry best practices including portfolio diversification, demand forecasting, and procurement automation.
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Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
In so doing, IP expects to improve procurement, replenishment orders, reduced stock keeping units (SKU), and the supply chain, including its warehouses, notes Zacks.
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