Procurement or purchasing managers: Well-acquainted with online procurement offerings such as Coupa.

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And he is likely to say that the government could do more through its own procurement and purchasing to support innovation - which is likely to strike a chord with many of the businesses to whom I talk.

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"Charles Hurst is one of four appointed suppliers to NIFRS and was subject to precisely the same tender process by the procurement team of the central purchasing agency as all potential bidders, " the company said.

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At the military property agency, Mr Olex-Szczytowski plans to raise more than 2 billion zloty by 2009 from selling surplus property, and to cut procurement costs by a tenth through centralised purchasing and online auctions.

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With traditional IT models, a decision to prototype a new system generally involves the procurement and installation of expensive hardware, with the associated checks and delays that conventional purchasing requires.

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