Bids take months longer than necessary to complete, one contractor complains, because the procurement staff cannot get their technical specifications straight.

一个承包人抱怨说，由于采购人员弄不清楚技术参数，因而投标比需要的时间长出了数月。

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No one contractor, it was felt, could handle that.

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Upstate New York, which is in trouble -- every little county has got one bonded contractor.

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But one Shell contractor said he still faced pressure to meet production deadlines, which meant somehow dealing with threats to disrupt the flow of oil.

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