If the bid proposal becomes a formal offer, it looks unlikely that Sanofi will have to face a higher counter-bid.
What they were successful at, however, was temporarily stopping the project after filing a bid proposal dispute with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington.
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Under cross-examination, however, she conceded she had no contract with Christianson, the company that supposedly was her general contractor, and there was no proposal or bid, and that when she bought hardware for the kitchen she sent it not the Christianson but to one of Allen's employees at Allen's corporate offices.
Mr. Stringer is making his proposal as he contemplates a bid to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg next year.
It maintains the offer represents a merger proposal, not a takeover bid.
But the committee's statement stressed that there was no assurance that either proposal would eventually lead to a bid being made.
The decision-panel decided that the UEL should get the grant despite scoring significantly lower than the bid which was deemed to have the best proposal.
The proposal is part of Peterborough City Council's bid to address budget deficits.
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That opens the possibility for Championship football club West Ham and their bid partner Newham Council to submit a new, lower risk proposal which could still see them move in after London 2012.
The electorate hesitates to accept flat taxes and the like at face value: Steve Forbes, flat-taxer par excellence, got nowhere in his bid for the presidency in 1996, while Bob Dole's proposal for a 15% cut in tax rates was ridiculed.
Investors flocked to gold in a safe-haven bid overnight on news that Cyprus and its international lenders agreed on a proposal to impose a levy on bank depositors to help pay for the government bailout.
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Ryanair's bid two years ago failed after European regulators and the Irish government balked at the proposal.
If Dell's special committee agrees to accept a superior proposal, Mr Dell and Silver Lake will have just one opportunity to match that bid.
Most of the coalition's problems have had less to do with its complexion than its occasional bouts of incompetence: Mr Cameron's self-confidence has sometimes tipped into insouciance and neglect of detail, as in a botched proposal to privatise forests and, more importantly, the well-intentioned but chaotic bid to make the National Health Service more efficient.
Northrop had said that it would not contest the terms of the latest contract proposal, even though it thought they had been drawn up to favour the rival Boeing bid.
Alibaba prefers a friendly deal with Yahoo, but it could still revisit an alternative plan to bid for the whole company in conjunction with buyout firms if the cash-rich split-off proposal falls through, people familiar with the matter said.
She said the a bid by Legacy plc to create a science park on the site was a "very interesting and exciting" proposal.
Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate he runs, said it would vote against Kraft's proposal to issue shares because of concerns that it would use too much of its stock to finance its bid for Cadbury.
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