And, a bit like eBay, deadlines placed on making bids speed the process up.
Everyone from Apple to Yahoo was rumored to be making bids on the company.
The Wall Street Journal reported that an assortment of real estate companies and private-equity investors were considering making bids.
Qatar and South Korea are also making bids solely for the 2022 staging.
Both teams said they would consider making bids in the future.
In New York, buyers are expected to wait for a bottom before making serious bids.
Nokia, HTC and LG are making aggresive bids to get back into game with major new device ranges.
The museums making the bids must be on an approved list, showing that they have a curator and appropriate facilities to care for the objects.
Children in Wales's Catriona Williams warned that making multiple bids for the different funds was time wasting and created unnecessary competition between the different agencies working to protect children.
Then, without informing anyone, Stelios put Stelmar up for sale, making calls and soliciting bids via his BlackBerry.
None of the potential owners making serious offers made bids above this figure.
Instead what they do is prevent most bids for acquiring a business by making the cost of an acquisition artificially high.
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RFP-EZ has created a new online marketplace and built tools that make it easier for innovative small tech businesses to bid on government contracts, while also making it easier for government contracting officers to identify the bids that offer the best value for taxpayers.
Still, Athens is moving forward with seismic studies of the areas and has already received 11 bids from firms eager to replicate the natural gas rush currently making waves off the coast of Israel and Cyprus.
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Trading firms have used stub-quotes, which are bids and offers way outside the normal range, as a way of meeting minimal market making requirements.
In awarding a contract to run a public service, such as a railway, there is a balance to be struck between making the contract long enough to encourage serious investment and not so long that the forecasts built into bids for the contract become highly speculative.
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