He cites press reports that more than 80 percent of FEMA's contracts were awarded without bidding or with limited competition.
Some involved easier ways to deal with car maintenance or methods for buying cars for the best prices, including bidding or group buying.
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Meanwhile, bidders commit to "take all measures necessary to prevent corrupt practices, unfair means and illegal activities" for bidding or while executing the contract.
"It creates the backdrop for an emotional scene for someone anxiously awaiting a loved one or bidding farewell, " Ms. Oliver said.
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"At the moment we are going to rely on outside agencies competing - or bidding - to run these centres, " he added.
Despite FIFA's ban on third-party influence, it provides a huge incentive for third parties to pressure clubs into doing their bidding or, at least, only buying shares in clubs with pliant owners.
As a city bidding for the games or for any major event for that matter, it is worth understanding the Olympics way of looking at the world.
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In most areas this broadened ownership (thought to be a social good), and in several markets it invited a bidding war for scarce properties or a speculative gambit for flippers.
Other councils, by comparison, have dragged their feet, despite the fact that open bidding for permission to set up or manage new schools became compulsory in 2006.
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The rooms had been refurbished several years earlier, when important guests from India had come for a long stay, and so Husna would live in better quarters than ever before in her life, with uninterrupted supplies of good food, servants who more or less did her bidding, and the occasional use of a car.
Downstairs, the lobby still bustles with guests returning from shopping on Bond Street, bidding on lots at Christie's or listening to the nightingales sing in Berkeley Square.
Bidding wars, lack of appropriate comps or buyers that perceive value regardless of the appraisal, may or may not result in a renegotiation of the sales price.
So while Congress can't commandeer the states to do its bidding, it can offer them more or less any bargain it likes and states have the choice to voluntarily accept the terms or not.
Now, Bristol could look attractive to other pharmaceutical companies, like AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline or Pfizer, leading to a bidding war.
Most other economists say what they need to say to do the bidding of their employer (whether Wall Street or Washington) and maintain the respect of their peers.
The court documents also charge that Hertz and his co-conspirators misrepresented to municipal issuers or their bond counsel that the bidding process was in compliance with U.S. Treasury regulations.
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Instead, they talk earnestly about building their companies, and about the problems of managing growth in a place where every new idea, engineer or building seems to start a bidding battle.
The Navy says it released a fresh "Request for Information for the Presidential Helicopter Replacement Options" in February 2010 and is now in the "Analysis of Alternatives, " or AoA, phase before formal bidding opens.
The Social Democrats are still well ahead, but for the first time in two years they are losing ground, thanks to a new liberal-conservative party that calls itself the Civic Platform, or plain Platform, which is bidding spiritedly for the middle ground.
Sportaneous, which launched that day, matches fitness enthusiasts with local venues to do their bidding, whether it be yoga, cycling, or soul cycling.
In all, nine countries are bidding to host the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022, with two more nations focusing their bids on 2022 alone.
The Premier League's fear of a dearth of future bidders for its content looks unfounded--historically the bidding pool has really only been Sky and one or two others.
Starting Wednesday morning, auction participants will have to use more (95% rather than 85%) of their "bidding units" to discourage them from sitting out rounds or making other stealth moves.
His pupils, mostly in their 20s or 30s, are taught a straightforward system of bidding and play, and competition, though fierce, is deliberately friendly.
Suitors could include the big international spirits companies, such as Diageo or Allied Domecq, which are presently preoccupied by the bidding to buy Seagram's liquor business.
The FCC's blind bidding process means the public won't know the auction's winner or winners until February or March.
Where it finds discrimination, the government will give minority businesses or contractors who employ minorities some form of credit such as a bidding bonus, the Times said.
This is also stopping private companies bidding for contracts in local authorities that have been forced to outsource some (or all) of their education-support services.
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