"There is one more bid out there but they've turned it down, " Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol.
However, investment management can and should be bid out to private companies to foster competition.
States, which oversee these programs, bid out contracts to cover about 60% of their 58 million Medicaid recipients.
She vows transparency and a level playing field, to bid out all government contracts, and not to coddle cronies.
And what happened was they didn't bid out competitively this Medicare Advantage program.
If those news reports prove correct, it would take a bit of the safe-haven bid out of the gold market.
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The championship game will be bid out like the Super Bowl, and the two semifinal games will rotate among six bowl sites.
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The four-team playoff will rotate two semifinal games among six bowl-game sites, then send the winners to a championship game whose site will be bid out like the Super Bowl.
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The championship game will be held at a separate site that will be bid out like the Super Bowl and will be played at least a week after the semifinals.
Judging the capabilities of local access providers, the survey found that the worst place to launch a bid turned out to be Atlanta, where the average download time is 11.58 seconds.
JPMorgan Chase also closed lower, after a bid to stay out of the red failed.
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Ofsted inspectors are targeting Coventry's primary schools in a bid to find out why they are 'underperforming'.
It made a full-out bid for Novell two years ago and also taken stakes in Brocade Communications Systems and Compuware.
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Germany's Hoechst said it may float its Celanese and Ticona units in an accelerated bid to get out of industrial chemicals.
Firms bid to carry out tasks that the government wants done, which promotes competition and efficiency and keeps the bureaucracy in check.
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The smaller scheme would see only two families remain on the site - but Solihull planners have recommended the bid be thrown out.
The appointment finally ends Celtic's drawn-out bid to replace Strachan, who departed following the team's failure to win a fourth consecutive league title.
Hearts continued to dominate play and Accies seemed frustrated as the visitors casually knocked the ball about in a bid to see out time.
Soccer's world governing body FIFA recently announced they would introduce biological profiles and test players more regularly in a bid to stamp out cheating.
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Bob Burns, another champion of the new flag, accuses the Cornish of "distorting history" in a bid to carve out a separate identity from their neighbours.
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are due to meet representatives from the Treasury, the Bank of England and several financial institutions in a bid to thrash out a deal.
Google stepped into the local ad market and allows small firms to try and out bid each other on pay per click ? that helps only Google 2.00 for Orlando auto dealers is not going to bring back a high ROI .
The firm out-bid Raasay Crofters' Association, which had managed the rights for 18 years.
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We don't necessarily put everything out for bid, but we like to have a benchmark.
Initially, the contract was put out to bid for small businesses- companies with less than 500 employees.
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He pitches the platform to public safety dispatch centers that usually put the projects out to bid.
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The judges also threw out a bid by Evans originally from Rhyl, Denbighshire, to have his sentence cut.
Scottish rival FirstGroup initially won the contract to run the line, with Stagecoach's joint bid with Virgin losing out.
If the stock begins to rally, market participants with short positions may begin to close them out and bid shares higher.
None of this rules out a bid by Mr Haider for the chancellorship at the next general election, due by 2004.
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