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Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel witnessing the signing of Local Procurement Accord which was signed between Business, Unions and Government on Monday in Pretoria, that commited the main economic groupings in South Africa to work together to increase the levels of goods and services bought from local producers with 75% Local Procurement in Pretoria, South Africa.31/10/2011
My lovely cousin Anne procured a blurb about me and, by extension, my little big cartel in Antler Magazine's blog. Feast your icicles.
Meeting of the Reskilling Revolution Champions
Robert E. Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC, USA; Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Front row (L-R) Stephanie Lim, Diane Leung, DGS Acting Director Esteban Almanza, Susan Chan, Erlinda Ibarbia (Caltrans), Yvetee Casey. (OSI)
Back row (L-R) Jose Zavala (OSI), Eric Mandell, Steve Kobayashi, Marisa Truax
Not pictured Janna Welk, Kristine Van Keuren
Truth provides the entrepreneurs with monetary and finance advice and helps in preparing the economic feasibility study in Abu Dhabi on the grounds of the market study, the technical, engineering, or financial study. Further, Truth assists in finding and procuring the finance necessary for completing projects’ invested capital from banks and treasuries, the specialized and commercial.
Elaboration:
Preparation of the initial and detailed economic feasibility study in Abu Dhabi is one of the services rendered by Truth Economic Consultancy, for which an official and professional license was issued by the Department of Economic Development in the UAE. This license is the legal framework, by which we practice our business in the state.
Our accumulated experience in preparing feasibility studies made us a standout in this domain. The reports issued by Truth are peculiar and the specialized can identify the form and style of our studies. Anyway, preparing feasibility studies for economic projects includes the following sections:
Monetary and Finance Consultancies:
Economic Feasibility Study:
Market Study.
Technical and Engineering Study.
Financial Study.
Monetary and Finance Advice:
Assisting in finding and procuring the finance necessary for completing the invested capital for projects from banks and treasuries, the specialized and commercial.
Banks and Finance Advice
Truth is distinguished with its ability to provide finance from several sources, local and foreign, at a proper interest rate. In addition, Truth hires unique and specialized competencies including engineers and technical cadre that are empowered to design projects and supervise their implementation until the starting up for fulfilling market purposes.
Truth has special relationships with the most important local and Arab treasuries and funds, which provide their facilities to the economic projects prepared by Truth. The most important facilities provided by the funds are:
Contribution to the capital at an agreed percentage.
Offering financial facilities in different forms, the most important of which are:
Istisna’ (a long-term contract whereby a party undertakes to manufacture, build or construct assets, with an obligation from the manufacturer or producer to deliver them to the customer upon completion)
Murabaha (an Islamic term for a sale where the buyer and seller agree on the markup for the item(s) being sold)
Al-Ijarah (rent/lease/hire)
Soft loans
Documentary credit for financing the capital.
The most important institutions of which are:
The Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (Joint Arab Authority based in Khartoum – Dubai)
El-Khaleej Investment Company (joint Gulf foundation based in Kuwait).
The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (one of the most important projects of the Islamic Development Bank based in Jeddah – the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).
Emirates Industrial Bank (Abu Dhabi- the UAE).
Abu Dhabi Investment Company (Abu Dhabi- the UAE)
Mubadala Office (Abu Dhabi – the UAE).
The Arab Bank for Economic and Social Development (Kuwait).
Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Finance.
Economic Feasibility study
“The detailed economic feasibility studies made by Truth Economic ConsultancyCompany about joint stock companies (public- private) are licensed by the ESCA and approved by the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi Emirate.”
Market Study
The main objective of preparing the market study is obtaining results closer to reality through the following points:
The volume of the actual demand for a commodity (service).
The volume of the actual supply of a commodity (service).
The actual gap of demand for a commodity (service).
Estimation of the actual demand gap volume within 10 years.
The competitive commodities (services) and the volume of their spread in the market.
Prices of competitive commodities.
The proposed marketing policy and advertisement campaign.
Studying the job structure of the sales, marketing, and workers’ remedies department.
In light of the previous results, reaching a decision of how feasible it is to establish a project for producing this commodity or rendering this service.
Technical and Engineering Study
The main objective of preparing the technical study for producing a commodity or rendering service is to reach precisely the following points:
Determining the unit of cost.. hour- meter- kilogram – ton..etc.
The cost of the unit and the intended aim is calculating all the direct and indirect costs (industrial- service) relating to the production and dividing it on the number of producing units (either commodity- service) at full capacity.
The technical and engineering feasibility study is deemed a main pillar in the project’s feasibility study. Further, carrying out this study necessitates having several marketing and economic data and information that are available at different stages of the project’s feasibility study; as the technical study aims at determining to what extent the project is technically feasible. In particular, this study includes a number of steps represented in:
Description of the project.
Selecting the site appropriate for the project.
Selecting the appropriate product type.
Determining the main elements required by the project.
Evaluating the project environmentally.
Estimating the economic life of the project.
Estimating the project’s costs.
Analyzing all the technical and engineering aspects is deemed a major stage in the project’s feasibility studies; as this study is an attempt of checking whether or not the project can technically be carried out. Several ideas are generated and some investment opportunities came up with products that satisfy a real demand in the markets. Yet, a small number of these ideas can be technically carried out; as the available production ways, the proposed technological method, the availability of raw materials, and all the other operation requirements…etc. determine whether or not the project is feasible.
Financial Study
The financial feasibility study is of paramount importance for two reasons; First: The results of the other previous aspects have an impact on the financial study in the form of data, figures of revenues, and costs that are translated to financial values and meanings. Second: The financial study provides indicators for the extent of the project’s commercial profitability, which concerns several parties such as investors, banks, and responsible governmental entities. Through the estimation of investment proposals, the extent of the project’s attractiveness and profitability rates can be known in comparison with the costs of alternative opportunities and other projects. This helps investors make propaganda of the project before the local and foreign financers and all the concerned parties. On the other hand, through the prepared financial statements based on the data of demand, production, and labor, potentials such as the provision of foreign currencies, labor, and employment opportunities, which the project can avail, can be estimated. Accordingly, the project can be evaluated in terms of social profitability.
The objective of preparing the financial feasibility study is evaluating the usefulness of investment opportunities in the viewpoint of investors, based on a number of methods and standards. Hence, investors, eventually, are able to select economically accepted investment opportunities.
Furthermore, the financial study is the most important part of the economic feasibility study . Its importance lies in leading to take the decision of the project establishment- through the results found. This does not mean to belittle the importance of the other study sections, namely:
The Market study.
The Technical study.
The financial study is responsible for:
Determining the total amount of money invested for the project, and how it is procured from its sources whether from entrepreneurs, banks, and treasuries.
Preparing the estimated closing accounts (balance sheet- income statement) on the grounds of the assumptions adopted throughout the project life expectancy.
Extracting the most important financial indicators from the estimated balance sheet and income statements throughout the life expectancy of the project (Preparing cash flow statements, Cash outflow statement, Cash inflow statement, Net flow).
– Preparing cash flow statements.
– Cash outflow statement.
– Cash inflow statement.
– Net flow.
– Extracting the most important investment indicators of the project
– Recovery period.
– Current net value.
– Internal revenue rate.
– Break-even point.
– Sensitivity analysis.
– Mosallam ratio.
The study recommendation of how much the project is feasible
5 October 2016- Opening Forum on Procurement for Innovation at OECD.
OECD, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
Procurement Conference - Federal. State. Local. Business on Thursday, May 12, 2016 at the Universities of Shady Grove. Alan P. Santos photography
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
I procure photos and create feature content for the Experiencewa.com website. The latest version with the new state logo just launched last month.
Check it out here: www.experiencewa.com/
General Phillips cited Betsy Ross and the Wright Brothers as some of the first military contractors. See more in the blog entry about his talk at the 2010 NDIA Small Business Conference.
One of the two Blackburn Swift aircraft purchased by the U.S. Navy from Breat Britain pictured in flight near NAS San Diego.
"In search for a capable torpedo aircraft following World War I, the Navy procured an array of aircraft to fulfill this mission. Among them were two examples of the British-built Blackburn Swift. A single-seat aircraft with the pilot sitting in a humped cockpit, the aircraft featured wheels that could be released in the event of an emergency, flotation bags, and folding wings."
Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection, Naval Aviation Museum
Geopolitical Lunch: Securing Sustainability, Collaboration and Peace
Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum; Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
The lead authors of a recent United Nations Environment Programme study of the Global State of Sustainable Public Procurement presented snapshot of the inter…
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The ODOT Procurement Office acquires all of the goods, services and outsourced work that our agency needs.
5 October 2016- Opening Forum on Procurement for Innovation at OECD.
OECD, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
An employee of Dean Smith and Grace Ltd. is awarded a long-service prize by Managing Director Ian Smith (on the right). The employee on the left has been identified as Kevin Fleming (1923-1991) who was getting his gold watch, circa 1970s.
Three Keighley engineers, Joseph Dean (1824-1909), James Smith (1834-1906) and John Grace (1840-1904), formed the partnership Dean, Smith & Grace in 1865. The men borrowed money to buy land from the Duke of Devonshire and built the Worth Valley Works. According to their 1889 catalogue, they manufactured machine tools “for locomotive, marine and general engineering, ordnance manufacturers, boilermakers, shipbuilders etc. etc.” and had already procured various government contracts. By 1883 their debts had been cleared and in 1898 the partnership became a limited company.
In the early years of the 20th century, some rebuilding and restructuring took place and the company started to specialise in the manufacture of industrial lathes. Their reach was global, doing trade deals with Australia, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Spain, Mexico and Argentina.
At the outbreak of World War One, now trading as Dean, Smith & Grace (1908) Ltd., the firm’s efforts were recognised in a letter from Lord Kitchener. The letter, dated 22nd October 1914, acknowledged the importance of the work undertaken by the firm and its employees in playing their part towards the war effort. During this period the company also manufactured breech blocks for guns. From 1938, the firm was run by Sir Harry Smith, James Pearson and Bert Laycock.
During World War Two, Dean, Smith & Grace financed their own Spitfire as part of a nationwide drive to raise money for fighter planes. They produced lathes for all branches of the armed forces, the government’s Ministry of Supply and for the Admiralty, and became one of the first traditionally all-male firms to employ women. At their output peak they were producing 107 machines per month, meaning one-fifth of all the lathes manufactured in this country were coming from Dean, Smith & Grace. In 1948, a new range of lathes was exhibited the Machine Tool Exhibition held at Olympia in London, which led to considerable trade with Canada.
According to advertising from the time, by 1960 they were manufacturing 13” to 30” swing engine lathes, surfacing and boring lathes, and precision tool room lathes. The works at this time boasted many labour-saving devices including mechanised accounting machines, colour-coded signalling systems and index systems for accounts and stores control. Staff benefitted from a superannuation scheme, a canteen (with DSG-stamped cutlery) and a surgery “with sun-ray and infra-red lamps for treatment during working hours”. The company also had its own sports field and pavilion for its cricket team and other sporting activities. The firm boasted of its employee loyalty, recognising long periods of service – in one case over sixty years.
A new foundry in Lawkholme Lane, the Nelson Works, was built between 1962 and 1965. In 1974 the company was sold to US company Monarch Machine Tool Co. The firm then became independent again in 1992, rebranding as DSG Lathes. There was a management buyout in 2005 and former Rolls-Royce engineer Nigel Grainger took over as managing director. He initiated a rebrand and a complete overhaul of the product range, including the launch of new aerospace and pipe lathes. In 2008 the company went into administration and was bought by Newsmith Stainless Ltd. and traded as Dean Smith & Grace Lathes Ltd. In 2012 the company was sold on to Machine Tool Technology Group who in 2015 made the decision to move the firm from Keighley to Halifax.
Dean Smith & Grace is now a Belgrave & Powell Ltd. company operating out of Preston in Lancashire. According to its website “it still develops new machine tools but also offers robotics and automation, CNC retrofitted solutions, rebuilds, machine tool services and breakdown support for all types of machine tools with the same level of professionalism and pride in the name instilled in the business over a 150 years ago”. An example of a Dean, Smith & Grace lathe is held in the Science Museum Group’s collection.
The original photograph measures approximately 260mm by 205mm and is held in the Keighley and District Local History Society's physical archive. It was scanned on behalf of the History Society by Billy Stride in 2021.
In Uzbekistan, UNOPS partnered with KOICA to deliver life-saving medical equipment and supplies to support the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the project, the Tashkent Research Institute of Virology received equipment to improve testing capacity.
© UNOPS/Sharakhmedov Khamdam
3 May 2019. ADB officials present to business communities an overview of the bank’s new procurement framework and its implementation status.
Opportunities in the Pacific were highlighted, as procurement in the region struggles to attract bidders, particularly new entrants.
Visit the event page for more information on this event and the list of speakers.
In coordination with Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with $5.6 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is supporting Mexico’s COVID-19 response and helping to improve the provision of health services through the delivery of specialized equipment.
In the town of Tlalixtac in Oaxaca, 14 ambulances were handed over in January 2022 and were distributed to remote areas throughout the state.
© UNOPS/BDM Estudio
The ODOT Procurement Office acquires all of the goods, services and outsourced work that our agency needs.
5 October 2016- Opening Forum on Procurement for Innovation at OECD.
OECD, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
Protest Rally on O'Connell Street.
Protests have taken place in Slovakia (and in Dublin) over a scandal sparked by an online document. With parliamentary elections scheduled for March, the publication of the purported intelligence file codenamed ‘Gorila’ (gorilla) has provoked outcry, as it links leading political party members to collusion with financiers in privatisation and procurement.
The kit and its assembly:
Another IAI Kfir, and – weird as it seems – the story of Taiwan procuring the Israeli fighter instead of the early F-16 is actually real! And it was a great basis to produce a what-if model of such an aircraft, had it ever entered ROCAF service.
The kit is the Italeri Kfir C.2/7 kit, which is rather simple and not as crisp as the Hasegawa alternative. It also has its assembly issues. The outlines are OK and the kit comes with fine recessed surface details, but fit is so-so and there are some weak spots: the fuselage/wing seams, the complex intersections under the air intakes that run right through the gun ports, sinkholes on the wings’ upper surface and an integral cockpit tub/front landing gear well piece that won’t fit properly. The Hasegawa kit’s fit is better, but the Italeri Kfir is detail-wise not worse – and it’s cheaper.
The only changes are four additional underwing pylons (from two different F-16 kits) and their ordnance. The Paveway bombs come from the Italeri NATO weapons set, the Pave Spike laser pod from a Hasegawa set, and the ALQ-119 pod was left over from a Revell F-16 kit. The OOB Shafrir AAMs were replaced by more modern AIM-9J Sidewinders. The ventral pylon was left away.
Inside of the cockpit the original Martin Baker Mk. 5 ejection seat was replaced with a more modern Mk. 10, and a monitor and a HUD screen were added to the dashboard.
Painting and markings:
I did not want a grey low-viz livery, and since the ROCAF had operated many US-built aircraft (including the F-5Es) in USAF SEA scheme colors, I adapted it for the Kfir, too. However, finding a suitable pattern was not easy. I looked into many options, including the official USAF F-102 and F-106 SEA patterns or the Belgian Mirage Vs’ tricolor scheme, but did not like any of them so that I developed my own and created a four-side profile as benchmark.
The paints became Humbrol 117 (FS 34102), 118 (FS 30118) and 116 (FS 34079). The underside became Humbrol 28 (FS 36622), with a wavy, low waterline. The landing gear and the air intakes became classic white, while the cockpit tub was kept in medium grey. Very straightforward and “realistic”.
After basic painting was done the model received an over washing with thinned black ink and some post-shading with lighter shades of the camouflage tones. FS 34079’s shading was moved into a more bluish tone for a better contrast to the lighter FS 34102.
The markings are a mix from various sources. The roundels and the serial numbers came from a BestFong sheet for Taiwanese F-5s, the unit markings from an Xtradecal F-5E sheet. Most stencils were taken from the Kfir’s OOB sheet.
The Paveway bombs were painted in two different shades of olive drab, the Sidewinders became standard white with black heads. The ALG-119 pos was, for some color contrast, painted in light grey (FS 36375), and the Pave Spike pod, simulating a 2nd hand AN/AVQ-23E pod from RAF stock, became Dark Green. I even considered a livery in Desert Pink (check Gulf War Buccaneers that carried them), but found that to look too exotic.
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Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo