Sentences with phrase «bid contracts»

In the past, no - bid contracts awarded for urgency reasons were reserved for federal agencies working on military missions.

It was Governor Malloy, with the help of Pryor and a series of no - bid contracts with out - of - state corporate education reform industry consultants, which produced the most anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-public education bill of any Democratic governor in the country.

He said he'd seek to reform the Scaffold Law, which holds landlords and contractors liable for «gravity - related» accidents in which they are at least partially to blame, and the Wicks Law, which requires separately bid contracts for some government - funded projects.

Negotiate volume pricing and special bid contracts from various wholesalers and distributors

The company recently lost competitive bid contracts in California, New York and Florida for the federal Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, which accounts for nearly half of all formula sales.

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

On Thursday, the NYPA Board of Trustees approved a multi-million dollar competitively bid contract award to Hadley Exhibits, Inc., a Buffalo firm, to develop content and detailed designs for the fabrication and installation of the new exhibits.

Federal corruption investigators looking into a $ 20.5 million no - bid contract at Chicago Public Schools also have asked for any records related to an elite nonprofit education group that has long been at the center of city school reform efforts — the...

Miner awarded Jewett a no - bid contract through an obscure arm of city government, the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency, which Miner controls without oversight from the city council.

Downstate defended the no - bid contract as necessary to complete the «highly specialized» IT project on time.

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Put a bid in for a contract with others who are equally as talented as him and have a higher probability of winning the bid

The US government has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in no - bid contracts related to Hurricane Maria.

The danger of no - bid contracting grew clear in the botched power grid repair contract between Puerto Rico's public utility company, PREPA, and Whitefish Energy, a tiny, inexperienced company from Montana.

Mangano and GOP lawmakers proposed the $ 1,000 contract threshold following reports that the administration has awarded hundreds of no - bid contracts since 2011 to politically connected firms for amounts just under $ 25,000 — the amount that currently triggers a legislative vote.

Six months later, Mangano's chief deputy, Rob Walker, signed a second $ 24,900 no - bid contract between McLaughlin & Associates and the parks department that used the same written description of the work and justification for bypassing bids.

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Based on a Rolling Stone article, and subsequent book, by Guy Lawson, War Dogs tells the improbably true story of how a couple twenty - something meatheads from Miami gamed the no - bid contract system then - Vice President Dick Cheney put into place to award government contracts.

As David notes, the government was under fire for no - bid contracts so in an effort to open up their books, they let anyone bid for possible weapons contracts.

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

If he were truly concerned about the waste of scarce resource, s he would be demanding an investigation of why his administration approved a no - bid contract signed by his hand - picked superintendent of schools, a contract that is now wasting precious Bridgeport and state tax dollars.

Commissioner of Education Pryor and the Department of Education spent about half a million dollars in no - bid contracts before the issue first became public in April.

The Animal Welfare Department is seeking professional bid contract proposals to fulfill the obligations of the ASPCA grant - funded Adoption Counselor position.

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A $ 24,500 no - bid contract for police consulting to the law firm of Abrams Fensterman of Lake Success, where Bruce Blakeman, a Hempstead Town councilman and former presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, was a partner.

But Alexander Caro said Sunday that his soon - to - be ex, who runs a public relations firm called BluChip Marketing, did score no - bid contracts from Nassau County with Mangano's help.

These types of contracts are relatively small in scale, but they make up a big chunk of the no - bid contracts awarded in Puerto Rico.

«It is very telling that Christie got up and walked out as he began to be questioned about the multimillion - dollar, no - bid contract given to the former U.S. attorney that refused to charge his brother,» said the New Jersey Democratic chairman, Joseph Cryan, said in a statement.

But it will give us the ability to consider other factors besides cost when awarding competitively bid contracts.

Newsday also reported last year that Nassau since 2011 had issued hundreds of no - bid contracts at amounts just below the threshold requiring a legislative vote.

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.

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CUNY brass authorized the no - bid contract through the university's main not - for - profit arm, the CUNY Research Foundation sources said.

Crucially, Alaskan firms aren't subject to the limits on no - bid contracts that apply to other 8 (a) s. And while the CEO of a regular 8 (a) must be a «disadvantaged» individual, the Alaskans are free to hire whomever they choose to run the business — and usually their choices are rich with experience in government contracting, particularly at the Pentagon.

According to Amey, no - bid contracts are risky and should be avoided.

And FEMA now relies more and more on no - bid contracts to respond to disasters.

One major problem with some no - bid contracts is that they get less scrutiny and oversight.

Karen Thornton, director of George Washington University's procurement law program, said it doesn't surprise her that so many no - bid contracts have been awarded.

Smaller, no - bid contracts have lower standards for review, which means they are even more prone to abuse.

While Halliburton has been engaging in massive overcharging and wasteful practices under this no - bid contract, Dick Cheney has continued to receive compensation from his former company.»

The IRS suspended a $ 7.25 million contract with the credit reporting company Equifax Friday after members of Congress complained the tax agency had awarded a no - bid contract to a company that recently had a massive data beach.