Sentences with phrase «bid contract given»

A lot of that money went not to the soldiers, but to no - bid contracts given to Republican party cronies - with no oversight.

«If Christie tried to answer for all the other multimillion - dollar, no - bid contracts he gave out to friends,» Mr. Cryan said, «he would have been testifying until Election Day, and none of his statements would have matched.»

Not exact matches

VA Secretary David Shulkin said that there was a «public interest exception» for giving Cerner the contract without examining other bids, especially considering that the system would better be able to communicate with the Defense Department's EHR tech, which Cerner also worked on.

Rather than raising corporate tax rates, the Rhode Island legislation, Senate Bill 2796, would give preferential treatment in state contract bids to companies that pay their highest - paid executive no more than 32 times the pay of their lowest - paid full - time employee.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

More importantly, it gave CGI - until then generally locked out of bidding on U.S. federal contracts due to U.S. restrictions on foreign contractors - a valuable U.S. subsidiary it could use to court American agencies for business.

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

Start laying in the foundations for a new manager now, get the right type of support and in 12 months time when Wengers contract runs out we bid him a good farewell and remember the good he done, it gives the club 12 months to make the changes and then we can show any great manager that we mean business on the pitch and not just off it.

it wont happen why not cheeky bid for sadio mane — he just gave interview saying he wants to leave an will not sign another contract at southampton... they are looking at replacements in the eredivise

Arsenal's quest for a new striker has given us reams and reams of newsprint this summer, with most of it being focused on the Gunners bid for Leicester's Jamie Vardy when we matched the buyout clause in his contract.

Lacazette's current contract at Lyon runs until 2019, and while he may now want to experience a challenge outside of France, the Ligue 1 outfit could be forced to consider bids this summer as he will be in high demand given his goalscoring exploits.

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An opening bid of # 20m is expected, which is a cut - price given the 24 - year - old has entered the final year of his Old Trafford contract.

With Arsenal having made a transfer bid large enough to trigger the release clause in the Leicester contract of Jamie Vardy, it was clear that Arsene Wenger had decided it was the Premier League star who was the right man to give Arsenal the extra goal power that we lacked last season, even though quite a few football experts suggested that his game and the style of the Gunners were not really suited.

The clause was for a team who finished higher will be allowed to bid for him, basically as Bayern was obviously going to finish above them it was a clause which IMO would suggest an arrangement with Bayern, why would Werder give such a contract otherwise?

The Belgian is contract to the west London club until 2020 and given how highly he is regarded by the owners, both as an asset and as a footballer, even a record - breaking bid might not be enough to secure his services, but that doesn't mean clubs won't try this summer.

It will be a rare 90 minutes on the pitch for Mignolet, who — though his Liverpool contract runs until 2021 — will give his future serious thought this summer, but only after his country's World Cup bid is over.

DiNapoli rightly concluded that the no - bid contract was untenable given that News Corp. stands accused in Britain of illegal news gathering tactics, including the hacking of private voice mail accounts of celebrities and a missing girl who was discovered to have been murdered.

According to our criminal complaint, Kaloyeros gave insider information to friends and fixed the bidding process to ensure his cronies won lucrative contracts, funded in part by the state of New York.

Interviewed on Today this morning the Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, said that the terms of the initial contract had been set by the last Labour government in 2008 and there was no option but to award Siemens the contract given that it made the «highest value for money bid».

Rockland refused a partial bid and withdrew, so Schlenoff then had no choice but to give the contract to San Remo, he said.

«Kaloyeros gave insider information to friends and fixed the bidding process to ensure his cronies won lucrative contracts funded in part by the state of New York,» Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.

The contract was given to a newly formed company, B&N Delivery, following a bidding process.

The NYC parks commissioner, who was partly responsible for a federal probe by giving a no - bid trash - bag contract to one of de Blasio's top fund - raisers, says he signed off on the deal unaware the liners failed the smell test years earlier.

He has given Mangano's campaign $ 1,732 during the period he has received no - bid contracts — and was paid $ 20,000 by Mangano's 2013 re-election campaign for consulting and marketing, a period in which he signed the county car show pact.

In August 2012, the parks department gave a Port Washington - based company, The Drink Agency, a $ 24,900 no - bid contract «to provide media and marketing for the Nassau County Car Show.»

Legislation meant to give lawmakers more control over the cost of road projects is moving forward without a provision that would have let officials use an alternative to the design - bid - build system of awarding contracts.

Was he outraged by the recent state audit (during the Helsmoortel years) that found the town was giving no bid contracts or cited the town board for not looking at the bills they were paying?

The city's parks commissioner, who was partly responsible for a federal probe by giving a no - bid trash - bag contract to one of Mayor de Blasio's top fund - raisers, says he signed off on the deal unaware the liners failed the smell test years earlier.

Meanwhile, the office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is examining possible bid - rigging in the contracting process for a dormitory project adjacent to the Albany campus of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, where Howe did extensive consulting work and was given an office for his use.

State Sen. John Sampson has given his approval of Genting NY's bid for the video lottery terminal contract at Aqueduct Race Track.

Moreover, the development corporations have given contracts to developers who rank among Cuomo's largest campaign contributors, sometimes in ways that have raised questions about whether bid specifications were written to favor certain companies.

According to a letter - report from the city comptroller's Bureau of Audit, given to Gotham Gazette today (posted here), in 2005 the department submitted a request that Future Tech get a no - bid contract.

«According to our criminal complaint, Kaloyeros gave insider information to friends and fixed the bidding process to ensure his cronies lucrative contracts, funded in part by the state of New York.

It details how W.'s administration, after being accused of cronyism in making Dick Cheney's Haliburton wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of wealth with the gift of bid - free defense contracts, opened the floodgates by essentially giving every unscrupulous asshole on the planet the opportunity to bid on defense contracts.

The company, Halliburton, which was run by former Vice-President Dick Cheney, was given $ 39.5 billion in Iraq - related contracts over the past decade, with many of the deals given without any bidding from competing firms.

Thomas P. DiNapoli, the state comptroller, had given the green light to state education officials in June to pursue a no - bid contract with Wireless Generation, an education technology company based in Brooklyn in which News Corporation had acquired a 90 percent stake last November for more than $ 360 million.

First came the millions Pryor gave away in no - bid contracts when he arrived in Connecticut.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

Thanks to the investigative work of the Connecticut Post's Ken Dixon in April, 2012, the public learned that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor gave Leeds Global Partner a lucrative no - bid contract in January 2012 to help the Malloy administration develop their disastrous «education reform» bill.

It a breathtaking example of good government, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and two of his appointees joined with long - time public education supporters Robert Cotto Jr. and Elizabeth (Brad) Noel to defeat a proposal that would have given Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry a no - bid, unique contract to run both Capital Prep and SAND elementary school.

Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Pryor's minions of charter school allies are diverting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to private companies that have been allowed to open up charter schools or have been given no - bid contracts to run local public schools in Connecticut's poorest communities.

The same Jumoke / FUSE charter school company that was given two no - bid contracts to run neighborhood schools in Hartford and Bridgeport.

The Malloy administration gave Jumoke / FUSE charter school company no - bid contracts to run public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and was granted management of a new charter school in New Haven.

«It is bad enough that more than $ 50 million in scarce public funds have been turned over to Jumoke Academy / Fuse, but unless immediate action is taken to reverse the Malloy administration's bad policy decisions, the series of no - bid contracts and State Board of Education votes will mean literally hundreds of millions more will be given to this charter school chain,» Pelto concluded.

The coordinated effort to give Friendship Charter School a no - bid contract is not only evident in the package of internal emails but the effort has now been independently confirmed by people directly involved in the process.

With Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra leading the way, the Hartford Board of Education voted 7 -1 (With only Working Families Party Robert Cotto Jr. voting no) to ask Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, to short - circuit the legislative mandated school turnaround process and give Friendship Charter School, Inc. a no - bid contract to take over Hartford's Clark Elementary School.

About a month later, Mr. Parker was out too, defeated in a re-election bid by a union challenger who accused him of giving up too much to Ms. Rhee, especially in the contract the two signed in the spring of 2010.

Andrea Comer, the former COO of Jumoke / FUSE charter school company has resigned her position on the State Board of Education, while the Bridgeport Board of Education prepares to end ties with Jumoke / FUSE, the charter school company that was given a lucrative no - bid contract to run Bridgeport's Dunbar Elementary School thanks to Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and Paul Vallas, the ousted former head of Bridgeport's Schools.

And the following year, despite no data about the level of success at Jumoke at Milner, Jumoke (FUSE Inc.) was given a no - bid contract to run the Dunbar School in Bridgeport.