Bidding opens simultaneously next month with the decision for both World Cup hosts to be made in December 2010.

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Fifa's decision to publish the rules of the bidding contest on its website for the first time is in response to criticism that the process is not transparent enough and is open to abuse.

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Instead, he lured his company into a bidding war and forced the board to make a rash decision about retention in the name of corporate competition.

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Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie focused on an independent report commissioned by the Scottish government about health services at Stracathro hospital, criticising the government's decision to rule out the independent sector from bidding for the hospitals contracts.

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However the decision was scrapped because of "technical flaws" in the bidding process, which are being investigated.

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He added that the decision to award the contract to South Ayrshire Stalking, after a competitive bidding process, had been made by officials without ministerial involvement.

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