Robin Harper (Green) asked the first minister to suspend suspend the contract of food supply to Edinburgh royal infirmary so patients receive a better standard of service.
In the case of Tesco, Wiseman had increased the amount it supplied by 10% and had won a contract to supply all of the Co-op's milk from August 2011.
Part of it funds the next round of letters of credit the manufacturer will use to ensure a steady supply of raw materials over the life of the supply contract.
And on some occasions the supposedly secret bidding looks rigged: in one village west of Paris, five of the six bids for a contract to supply water were within 0.1% of each other.
In the U.S., the device is generally free at wireless carriers when customers sign a two-year service contract, and supply was constrained for much of the period.
E. for the 60-odd wind turbines that will go into the 99 mw wind project, which has a 20-year contract to supply electricity for the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
Craig Doud is vice president of customer loyalty at Emptoris, a provider of strategic supply, category spend and enterprise contract management solutions.
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Chip makers themselves have also felt confident enough about their prospects to raise the prices of the chips they supply to customers under contract.
Citing concerns about softening tech hardware end demand, RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani this morning turned cautious on the IT supply chain, downgrading shares of the contract electronics manufacturers Benchmark Electronics and Sanmina, and reducing estimates and price targets for various other stocks.
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The con of gold is that the inability to expand and contract supply in line with the economy can create problems.
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.
Apple relies on the same supply chain of parts supplies, chip foundries, and contract manufacturers everybody else does.
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"In a very difficult retail environment this move into contract supply means job security for the existing staff and the creation of new positions within the company, " added Mr Mclean.
Angel said it was nearing the end of negotiations with a "sizeable customer" on a long-term supply contract for materials supplied directly from ABL. The group expects other contracts to follow.
By the age of 17 he had formed a small company to enable him to bid for a contract to supply pencils.
In any case, a massive net sale of securities that would be necessary to shrink total Fed assets to pre-crisis levels would sharply contract the money supply and likely produce panic in the banking and financial system.
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