Consequently, it is up to the plan sponsor to do an intensive due diligence of consulting firms prior to selecting a firm and craft a contract for services that reflects the unique concerns of the fund.
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That raises an interesting question of whether a national agency is required to help contract for those services, with praise for the way in which the Scottish Futures Trust has used centrally-focussed expertise to help councils and health boards procure their capital projects.
Two years later, Burton became chairman of a committee overseeing a big contract for government phone services.
Her crime was to award a contract (for travel services) to the best bidder.
In February of this year the Commons Justice Select Committee said the ministry's handling of the contract for court language services had been "shambolic".
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While the GSA offered other devices, ICE awarded a contract for iPhone smartphones and services in late September.
Medicare is a government-run program, and services are bought on a contract basis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the American Association of Retired Persons.
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The company provides contract engineering services and test equipment for fuel cell developers.
One of these companies, Boston-based American Student Assistance, says 47 nonprofit schools have signed up or began contract negotiations for its default-prevention services over the past six months, bringing its total roster to 140 colleges.
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It seems that we would like to see a choice in the contract between paying for design and editing services, for a pre-set cost against future sales, and having these things done out of your own pocket, but subject to approval by the publisher.
This may be a subject for contract terms and conditions with professional services firms who perform these services.
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Since March, i-design has signed a major contract with merchant processing services provider First Data for the supply of joono software, and has sold an additional 3, 000 software licenses to Barclays Bank and US-based Cardtronics Inc.
"Nonprofit religious organizations like universities, hospitals or charities with religious objections won't have to arrange, contract, pay or refer for coverage of these services for their employees or students, " said Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services.
These private finance initiative deals, typically involving an arrangement in which a private company provides capital in exchange for taking over a long-term contract to run services, have had a mixed reception.
For the next decade he had a contract to provide towing services to his larger rival, BoatUS. But the arrangement irked him.
They refused to let the season begin until the players' union agreed to a contract that would prevent its members from getting fair market prices for their services.
The contract for building the utility plant went to a company that provided site preparation services for the project.
If you are willing to buy other services and agree to a contract, you likely can lock in lower rates for a year or two.
He repeatedly asked some hard questions about DeltaWrx: What is scope of services in their contract, whom do they report to, who is liable for decisions based on their advice?
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The then-prime minister's drive to contract out public-sector tasks to the private sector laid the foundations for firms taking over such services as school and hospital meals, buildings maintenance and even staff training.
Dave Brown, from Lancashire, works for the global services arm of BT, told BBC Five Live that agency and contract staff were taken on in the knowledge they would be the first to go.
The NHS has lost the contract to run some ambulance services in Cornwall, Somerset and parts of Devon to a private company best known for operating car parks.
Corporate contract gains and revenues from new products and services combined with solid demand environment have driven revenue momentum in Q3 2011 for Delta.
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