In some cases, the business has already identified the source, and the strategic supply group negotiates the contract and manages the relationship.

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The investigator Richard Penn, a former local authority chief executive, looked into allegations that Mr Green met the winning bidder to discuss the contract before tenders were submitted and only declared a personal relationship with the representative after contract had been awarded.

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Villagran and Bianco have also been unable to provide CNN with any written contract that sets forth a relationship with Yacob in relation to the transfer to support their claim for compensation.

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We define an agency relationship as a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent.

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In June Elston sued IV for breach of contract, claiming his four-year relationship with IV was wrongfully terminated after he sent an e-mail to senior management in April, saying an IV employee was diverting unnecessary finder fees to a person with whom he had close ties.

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Prior to serving as a VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester for enterprise apps strategy and contract negotiations, he headed up the customer relationship management (CRM) analyst relations program for PeopleSoft.

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The relationship between A-B InBev and the consumer is a contract of trust that will clearly have been broken if found guilty of the charges.

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It said it wanted an examination of the nature of the relationship between Mr Wallis and Mr Fedorcio and the circumstances under which the contract was awarded.

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