It is common practice for public services to mount in-house bids when offering contracts for public competition.
Such raw public competition, however, is a nightmare for novelists.
For example, in education, charter schools gives traditional schools some competition, private schools give public schools some competition.
The Department of Justice and Department of Agriculture have held unusual public hearings on competition in the agriculture industry.
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It calls for more progress in the executive's stated aim of rebalancing the Northern Ireland economy through the opening up of public services to competition.
Undeterred, in Magdalena Mr Cavallo said that he could slash Argentina's 14.5% unemployment rate through tax and labour reforms, and cut the cost of public services by competition in their provision.
Unlike the managerial techniques of targets and performance management, this has the potential to ginger up the public services through real competition.
Those talks have focused on creating nonprofit health insurance cooperatives instead of a public option to force competition and lower medical rates.
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In several conference calls with our executive committee in December and January, we outlined our financial models and the new realities for most private colleges and universities--declining numbers of students paying full tuition, an increasing discount rate and stiffer competition from public universities.
David Cameron has now accepted his critics' arguments that the prescription he and Nick Clegg originally wrote and persuaded their MPs to swallow would have sparked off an NHS revolution with competition between public, private and voluntary health providers driven by an aggressive new regulator.
The former group includes the likes of public college and university officials, who perceive the for-profit schools as competition for students and scarce public resources, as well as investors who bet short against the publicly traded stocks of the for-profit schools.
Members are yet to agree on trade in services, competition policy and public procurement.
Tinkering interventionism was out and union reform (long overdue), privatization, competition, sound public finances and low taxes were in.
Fifth, private-sector firms can offer retirement schemes in competition with the public system.
As prime minister, he at first seemed unenthusiastic about Mr Blair's efforts to inject choice and competition into the public services.
As the market has grown, so has competition to arrange public offerings.
That proposal is probably the most complicated means any state has developed to try to even out public and private school playoff competition.
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Democratic leaders reject that claim, saying the public option would provide needed competition for private insurers while making health coverage accessible to millions of people currently lacking health insurance.
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"Despite having tremendous voluntary support, but without public subsidy and with increased competition, we no longer have the ready finances to move forward and support a festival for another year, " it said.
Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem deputy prime minister, share a vision of a public sector enlivened by greater competition and less dependent on a dwindling pot of state funding.
The company has many opportunities to improve its margins and grow revenues, but we want to see how it can perform under the pressure of being a public company and versus increasing competition before we can recommend the shares.
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In 1993, the French department of public works staged an open competition to build a high bypass bridge between plateaus at the top of the gorge, based on an initial concept by its engineer, Michel Virlogeux, who proposed a multispan, cable-stayed bridge with a phalanx of seven masts supporting cable fans.
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In recent years, the high costs of regulatory compliance associated with Sarbanes-Oxley and the effects of Dodd-Frank combined with a waning initial public offering (IPO) market and increasing global competition have limited the ability of smaller companies to access new capital through the public markets.
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The society said without public subsidy and faced with increased competition it could not afford to run the event.
Choice means competition, which means public schools start getting their act together.
Competition comes from British public and private terrestrial TV.
He outlined his plans for "a health insurance exchange" that would allow Americans to choose between private plans and a public option that will "inject competition into the health care market... force waste out of the system and keep the insurance companies honest".
Without paying customers or competition to harry them, public-sector workforces are often producer-oriented and conservative.
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World Water Day 2004: public outreach programme, secondary school essay competition, radio programme, expositions with literature, hydrologic models, etc.
Of the 40 finalists in this year's Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's most prestigious science competition, 35 hail from public schools.
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