Sentences with phrase «at federal contracting»

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MONTREAL — Canada's aerospace industry could lose about $ 10.5 billion worth of contracts over several decades if the federal government ultimately decides not to purchase the controversial F - 35 Stealth Fighter, says a senior executive at Lockheed Martin.

Predictably, the Alaskan 8 (a) sector is booming: Its share of federal contracting set - asides has grown from $ 265 million in 2000 to at least $ 2.3 billion today, about 20 percent of all 8 (a) dollars — most of that going to just 20 firms.

Procurement officials at federal agencies gravitate to the ANCs because, says Proffitt, «they don't have to compete contracts and worry about who might win.

One way to gauge what the market expects in terms of short - term rates is to look at Fed Funds future contracts, which allow investors to place bets on what where the federal funds rate will be in the future (This long - term view can influence short - term rates).

The federal government has announced a $ 19.1 million funding boost towards a participation framework that will help Australian businesses get a fairer go at winning government and private sector contracts.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The report finds inconsistent allocation of legal risk from electronic payments transactions depending on their form, jurisdictional overlaps and gaps between federal and provincial rules and asymmetrical service provider contracts that leave consumers at a distinct disadvantage.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

The WTI contract is back at the crucial $ 50 level, with the help of the strong decline in the Dollar, the prospects of slower tightening by the Federal Reserve, the positive news regarding the OPEC production cut deal, and the slower growth of the US output.

On the corporate side our Baltimore litigation lawyers are experienced at administrative law matters, arbitration and mediation, business litigation, civil appeals, contract disputes, cyber-law, environmental law, federal investigations, insurance law, real estate, tax prosecutions and IRS matters.

The Obama administration directive gave regulators at the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs more tools to determine if companies with federal contracts were violating equal pFederal Contract Compliance Programs more tools to determine if companies with federal contracts were violating equal pfederal contracts were violating equal pay law.

Executive Order 13360 calls for at least 3 percent of all federal agencies» contracting money to go toward businesses owned by these vets.

«The combined value of federal grants and contracts for research and related activities at Vanderbilt University, including the Medical Center, totaled $ 424 million in fiscal year 2009.»

BOSTON --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UFood Restaurant Group Inc. (OTCBB: UFFC) announced today that they will open a UFood Grill restaurant in FAA headquarters, located in the Department of Transportation Building in Washington, D.C. with Sodexo, Inc., who recently announced they were awarded a 7 - year contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to operate food services at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

An explosive run as a rookie head coach at Louisville, demanding and then abandoning a 10 - year contract for the NFL in a moment that helped cement his heel persona, a superstar NFL player sent to federal prison, a midnight flight to take over a SEC program shortly after, an employee sex scandal that imploded a potential BCS title contender, and finally, a chance to keep his family together in one state and restart his career.

Yamali, testifying in the federal corruption trial of Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, said his company had won a 10 - year county contract in 2009 to exclusively supply food at county - owned properties and parks.

Under the act, at least 30 percent of all hires must be Section 3 residents, who are residents of NYCHA or low - or very low - income residents; at least 10 percent of the federal funding for construction contracts must be awarded to Section 3 businesses, which are businesses majority - owned by Section 3 residents or whose employees are at least 30 percent Section 3 residents; and at least 3 percent of the federal funding for non-construction contracts must be awarded to Section 3 businesses.

Such contracts to politically connected companies have been at the center of both the federal corruption conviction of former state Sen. Dean Skelos and a federal investigation into Mangano's chief deputy, Rob Walker.

Federal and state investigators are reviewing contracts into the Buffalo Billion as well as issues surrounding contracting at SUNY Polytechnic.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan, led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, are looking at how SUNY Polytechnic Institute and its dependent subsidiary, the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, let contracts for multi-million dollar factories in Buffalo and Syracuse.

Count four: «That you Godsday Orubebe, while being a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in charge of Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, on or about 2013 asked for and accepted the sum of twenty million naira from one Pastor (Dr.) Jonathan Alota as additional bribe for the contract awarded in favour of his company Chemtronics Nigeria Limited for the construction of skill acquisition Centre at Edo State for the sum of one billion seven hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty naira eighty eight kobo only (1,799,914,251.88 K) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 10 of CCB & T Act.»

Mangano has resisted prior calls for the county to dump Armor's contract, including after a group of Democratic county legislators criticized the vendor's care and called for federal intervention at the jail earlier this year.

Executives at each firm were charged by state and federal prosecutors last week with improperly colluding with Todd Howe, the lobbyist, and officials SUNY Polytechnic Institute to win contracts building SUNY Poly facilities.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Joseph Percoco, former executive deputy secretary, at a press conference in 2013 in Albany, N.Y. Percoco is under federal investigation for possibly receiving secret payments for contracts under the governor's «Buffalo Billion» economic revitalization program.

When reporters asked the governor on May 25 in Syracuse about economic development contract awards to politically connected campaign contributors — a matter that's at the heart of the federal probe — Cuomo said SUNY made those decisions, not him.

Amtrak will cooperate with the state in contracting for the Penn Station redesign, and Mr. Cuomo has indicated at least some of the upgrades at the airports in Long Island will enjoy federal financing.

Federal prosecutors say top executives at LPCiminelli went to great lengths to ensure they would win the lucrative contract to build a factory for SolarCity at Riverbend.

In particular, federal investigators are looking at the contracts won by LPCiminelli, a developer who was selected to construct the SolarCity facility.

Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.

Federal Government has set up a team to work on a template that will see a reduction on contract cost; the move is to bring them at par with what obtains in the world and other African countries.

In addition, the federal complaint asserts that Ciminelli made «significant» contributions to Cuomo's political campaigns that were «intended at least in part to develop a relationship» that would lead to «state - funded development contracts.»

In the Manhattan federal corruption case, Howe has admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers and from rigged bids on state contracts linked to the upstate Buffalo Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.

The governor was asked by reporters about the economic development contract awards to politically connected campaign contributors, which are at the heart of the federal probe.

At noon, union officials and labor supporters rally in support of Honeywell Corp. workers who have been locked out due to a contract dispute and call on the U.S. Department of Defense to suspend its contract with the company, Leo O'Brien federal office building, Albany.

Federal prosecutors revealed Mr. Skelos had arranged a meeting between fracking industry leaders and the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the same time that his son both held an alleged «no - show» job at AbTech and was in the process of negotiating the contract to sell filters through his consulting firm Rockville Strategies.

Democratic county legislators recently called for an end to Armor's contract and asked federal officials to investigate what they called an «ongoing civil rights crisis» involving poor medical care at the jail.

Its reporting on the Buffalo Billion prompted U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of developer contracts and for members of the community to demand more diversity in the employment of construction workers at Solar City.

ALBANY — State officials have been formally banned from speaking with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal probe into how SUNY Polytechnic Institute awarded several development contracts.

The once - mighty Republican faces federal allegations that he used his position to pressure a developer to obtain a no - show job for his son, Adam Skelos, at a water filtration systems company — and then leaned on his native Nassau County to grant said company contracts.

Construction of the DeWitt facility was delayed at least a year by a federal corruption probe of state contracts, including Cor Development Co.'s contract to build the Soraa plant.

A federal judge in 2010 sentenced him to 18 months in prison for evading taxes on payments he got from a developer working on government contracts in his legislative district who also was at the center of the New Cassel corruption case the Nassau district attorney's office prosecuted.

Former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, who was recently charged by federal prosecutors with soliciting over $ 300,000 in bribes in return for state contracts, is an executive at Madison Square Garden.

Contractors handling projects at the Federal University, Oye - Ekiti in Ekiti State have been warned to complete the projects in November or risk revocation of their contracts.

Veteran business owners and entrepreneurs are invited to attend a free workshop and seminar focused on federal and state contracting opportunities for veteran businesses in New York City on May 13 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

More than 20 years ago, Congress created a requirement that at least 5 percent of federal contracts would be awarded to women - owned small businesses, but as recently as last year only 4.3 percent were given to them.

Fort Lee, Virginia About Blog The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is the Department of Defense (DoD) component that works directly with defense suppliers to help ensure that DoD, federal, and allied government supplies and services are delivered on time, at projected cost, and meet all performance requirements.

Attempts at comprehensive education reform usually span federal, state, and local governing institutions, as well as myriad union contracts and funding sources.

Every 5 years following employment or entry into a contract in a capacity described in subsection (1), each person who is so employed or under contract with the school district must meet level 2 screening requirements as described in s. 1012.32, at which time the school district shall request the Department of Law Enforcement to forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the level 2 screening.

Take a detailed look at the most recent federal activity on child nutrition programs, and how the new standards are affecting every - day operations in school districts, including outside vendor contracts, fundraising, food trucks, and wellness policies.