Sentences with phrase «allows award changes»

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Boenigk shared her experience over the last year with the changes that allow procurement officers to award small contracts directly to qualified companies, without competitive bidding.

Gold award winners included: Brazil's Froneri for a cardboard ice cream cup featuring a PP in - mold label, closure with spoon inside and aluminum / PE sealing; and Insignia Technologies for its Freshtag shelf - life indicator tag designed to change color over a pre-set number of days at a prescribed temperature, while the color change is faster when the temperature increases; and PPi Technologies for MosquitoPaQ, which uses a frangible sealed pouch that allows consumers to mix and activate the dry and wet chemicals at the time of use, without having to pour out or touch the contents; after activation, consumers hang the pouch nearby and leave it alone as the repellent is released over the course of 15 days.

But the construction portion of the project, estimated to be 90 percent of the $ 12 million cost, is contingent on a change in state law to allow municipalities to use special «design - build» contracts, in which the design and construction phases are awarded to one company, rather than in separate bids as is typical in large public works projects.

To that end, he's looking for a change in state law that would allow the city, like the state, to award contracts to MWBEs even if they are not proposed the least expensive qualified bid.

Silver Award: Llewellyn Smith and Kelly Thomson WGBH / NOVA «Poisoned Water» May 31, 2017 NOVA investigated the science behind the disastrous results that occurred when officials in Flint, Michigan decided to change the city's water source to save money but ─ by overlooking a crucial corrosion control process ─ allowed lead from old lead water pipes to leach into the city's drinking water.

The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..

In 2007, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein sought to change the process for awarding teachers tenure, allowing student data to be factored into that decision.

Samsung really changed up the camera area of the Galaxy S7 Edge — gone is the conventional 16MP award - winning shooter from the S6 models and instead is a new Dual Pixel 12MP with a larger sensor, allowing it to take in more light and information than the smaller 16MP sensor.

The camera area of the Galaxy S7 Edge was changed quite a bit this year — gone is the conventional 16MP award winning shooter from the S6 models and instead is a new Dual Pixel 12MP with a larger sensor, allowing it to take in more light and information than the smaller 16MP sensor.

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine award seats with non-award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return award seat is not available.

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount... Read More...

For example, Southwest Rapid Reward points can be redeposited without penalty, and American Airlines allows award date changes as long as the trip is at least 21 days out.

AA (still) allows free date changes, so long as award space is available in the class you're already booked into.

Specifically, changes requested by the member to fly on a different date or at a different time will allow travelers to keep the existing award level.

American Airlines has advised that it will allow customers to make certain changes to their award tickets without re-pricing the award and collecting more miles.

Limiting cancellations with this policy might hold some weight... but we feel Delta's very best customers — those who have shown enough loyalty to earn award flights — should still be allowed to at least change their ticket within 72 hours.

Korean Air used to allow free cancellations and changes to award tickets but that changed in 2016.

Yes, our flexible change and redeposit policy will allow all members to make changes to awards prior to departure.

It can allow members like me to keep our points in the form of transferable currencies until we're 100 % sure that our plans are not going to change while at the same time locking up award space that may otherwise disappear.

These changes will go into effect on March 6, 2018, which means that as long as you make your future award bookings before then you can book at the current award rates as far as the calendar will allow.

Members of the two airlines» loyalty programs can still book and claim award travel on the other carrier through April 30, but not for travel after that date (unless it was booked by December 18, although no changes will be allowed as of May 1).

So, the new points & money slider and hotel award rates are a very mixed change: For infrequent travelers or anybody who doesn't really care about the best value for their points, this is an easy - to - use and flexible tool that will allow them to use their points anytime for a hotel room, without having to wait till they have enough points.

The program, like FlyingBlue, allows connections without changing the price of the award the way Avios would.

In one bit of good news, United phone agents seem just as angry about these changes as the callers, and are complaining to management in an attempt to get United to either make the booking rules less strict or allow them to manually override award prices during phone bookings.

The most valuable partners in my opinion are United (which never charges fuel surcharges, allows free date changes, has flexible routing rules, allows one - way awards, and has dozens of partners to fly on) and Hyatt (where you can stay in incredible hotels that charge $ 1,000 per night with awards as low as 5K and up to a maximum of only 22K points per night).

Plus change / cancellation fees are much lower with Singapore and Singapore will allow you to hold awards if you have miles in your account.

One of the most interesting, recent changes is the ability to earn Citibank ThankYou points via credit cards and transfer them to Thai Airways, allowing you to top up your account for a desired award.

They never charge fuel surcharges, they allow free date changes, they have very flexible routing rules, they allow one - way awards for half the mileage, they have a short - haul award for 20,000 miles, they allow for a stopover and an open - jaw so that you can really maximize an award trip into multiple free trips, they have an around - the - world award to visit tons of cities on one award ticket, and they have dozens of partners to fly on, most of which can be booked on their website.

It used to be that they did not allow one - way awards at all, something that changed earlier this year, as one of the few positives of their Delta Skymiles 2015 changes.

Update: With recent changes, American Airlines no longer allows stopovers on its awards and the following booking is no longer possible.

AAdvantage allows one way awards for half the cost of a roundtrip and has more generous change policies, while US Airways has more generous routing rules.

They're making some other changes to their program as well, like adding more award tiers, allowing one - way awards for half the cost of a roundtrip, etc..

You're allowed to change the date on award tickets for free, within one year of booking.

Consider the following additional «con» for US Airways: They allow NO changes to award tickets after travel has begun.

The study praised American's AAdvantage program for allowing members to change the dates of award travel for no fee, if it's done 21 days in advance and costs the same.

This allows you to make award bookings well in advance, when availability is very good, and change or cancel later without additional cost.

No connections longer than 24 hours are allowed on an AA award, and to change your destination now would cost you a change fee.

That was changed in 1988 to allow only artists and in 1991 the age restriction was introduced to prevent it being seen as a lifetime achievement award.

By recognising the integrity of Aviva's climate strategy, the UN's award highlights the essential role that carbon markets play in allowing companies to take complete responsibility for their contributions to climate change.

AER received a Business Achievement Award in the climate change category for developing new approaches and methods for measuring and forecasting solar and wind resources that allow renewable power plant developers to measure more accurately both long - term production and short - term variations in resource availability.

As recorded in the travaux préparatoires of the New York Convention, the omission of language in the 1927 Geneva Convention allowing postponement of recognition or enforcement, or granting enforcement subject to a guarantee, of any award that «has not covered all the questions submitted to the arbitral tribunal», was a «significant change» from the wording of the 1927 Geneva Convention.809 The omission is particularly notable given that article V (1)(c) contains very similar language to article 2 (b) of the 1927 Geneva Convention.810

Ask any resume writer who has won or been nominated for a Toast of the Resume Writing (TORI) award about the value, and they will then proceed to tell you how it changed their business virtually overnight, was the best publicity they have ever received, and has allowed them the luxury of picking and choosing their clients.

In the event the court has terminated a surviving parent's rights, or changed the terms of the decree post-divorce to award full custody to the deceased parent, California law allows third parties — such as grandparents or other relatives — to intervene.

Child custody had been traditionally awarded to mothers from the onset of the 20th century, but as the father's role in the family evolved, laws changed to allow fathers custody, and eventually, the concept of joint custody was created.