Sentences with phrase «bid deals in»

Vox's review of procurement records shows that in response to Hurricane Maria alone, FEMA has awarded $ 61 million in single - source contracts — no - bid deals in which agencies only reach out to one business to make a deal.

Not exact matches

Vocus Communications has been successful in its bid to take over Amcom Telecommunications with the pair agreeing to a deal valuing Amcom at $ 652.7 million.

The contract, whose total value is still unclear but will likely number in the hundreds of millions, was awarded in a no - bid deal.

Cerner snags huge VA contract in no - bid deal.

While the US VC houses don't appear to be raising funds anywhere near the size of SoftBank's Vision Fund, it's possible that they will work together on deals in a bid to convince founders to take their money instead of or alongside SoftBank's.

BRUSSELS / PARIS, March 16 - Britain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria's war, according to a confidential document, in a bid to persuade Washington to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

TOKYO / BERLIN, April 25 - In a fresh bid to win its first major foreign arms deal since World War Two, Japan is proposing its P - 1 submarine hunter for a French - German project to develop a marine surveillance aircraft, two Japanese government sources said.

Four banks and five pension funds announced a bid for the TMX Group in a deal valued at $ 3.6 billion.

Toward that end, some hotel chains, in deals they have with online travel agencies (OTAs) such as Expedia, have forbidden those companies from bidding on keyword ads on Google and other ad networks that would include the hotels» brand names, according to the editorial.

U.S. officials blocked a $ 2.9 - billion bid by Chinese investors to buy a controlling stake in a California - based unit of Dutch electronics firm Phillips last year, while another U.S. semiconductor firm rejected a lucrative offer from Chinese investors in favour of a lower bid from an American company because of concerns the deal would not win regulatory approval.

Subiaco - based gold miner Perseus Mining has launched an all - scrip bid for London - listed Amara Mining in a deal worth about $ 85 million.

Adidas will lose that deal to Nike at the end of the next season (it chose not to bid to renew) and so the store is in the awkward spot of bearing heavy Adidas branding for only one more year.

Just last week, the company went all the way up to the Supreme Court in a bid to save the flailing deal and asked the Delaware judge.

The prospect of the United States remaining in the Paris deal has irritated some smaller miners, including Murray Energy Corp, whose chief executive, Robert Murray helped fund Trump's presidential bid.

Britain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria's war, in a bid to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

The new deal puts pressure on fellow chipmaker Broadcom to decide if it will stick with a stipulation in its $ 121 billion bid for Qualcomm that the company not raise its previous $ 110 a share offer for NXP.

While the company has reportedly put itself up for sale, so far no suitor has agreed to a deal, though a fake takeover bid in May 2015 briefly sent Avon's (AVP) shares surging 20 % before the offer was revealed as a hoax (and the shares promptly resumed their downward trend).

After vetting a handful of bids, he signed the $ 10 million deal with LLR Partners in April 2004.

In a record year for U.S. M&A, with $ 2.18 trillion in deals, according to Dealogic, hostile takeover bids have also surged, worth more than 14 % of the total value of transactionIn a record year for U.S. M&A, with $ 2.18 trillion in deals, according to Dealogic, hostile takeover bids have also surged, worth more than 14 % of the total value of transactionin deals, according to Dealogic, hostile takeover bids have also surged, worth more than 14 % of the total value of transactions.

Its board of directors is supporting the Loblaw takeover bid but the deal requires approval from at least two - thirds of the votes cast by QHR shareholders at a special meeting to be held in October.

To help close the deal, California - based Western Digital has told Toshiba it is prepared to pull out of a consortium bidding for the business in order to address such concerns, said the sources, one with direct knowledge of the transaction and one who was briefed on this development.

Both companies said the deal did not pose any security risks and Canyon Bridge had told CFIUS it would double the number of Lattice's employees in a bid to make the deal more palatable, according to people familiar with the matter.

Chinese steel giant Baosteel and listed railway operator Aurizon have cleared a key hurdle in their $ 1.4 billion joint takeover bid for Perth - based Aquila Resources, with the Foreign Investment Review Board giving the green light to the proposed deal.

For better or worse, this year's study hands a big talking point to the campaign of Top State Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, a Republican touting his economic record in his bid for a second term.

The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

Comcast said on Monday it had abandoned its bid for most of the assets of Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox, leaving Walt Disney as the sole suitor in pursuit of the $ 40 billion - plus deal.

Saputo Inc. emerged as the winner of the Australian deal with a $ 450 - million all - cash bid — one of the biggest deals in the history of the company, which was launched in the 1950s as a family venture that made deliveries of homemade fresh mozzarella by bicycle.

When Saputo Inc., Canada's largest dairy producer, won a hard - fought battle to acquire one of Australia's biggest dairies in 2014, it may have looked to outside observers as if the company had jumped into the frenzied bidding at the last minute, spotting an opportunity to spin a fast deal.

Jim Cramer unpacked the hostile bid by Broadcom to acquire semiconductor maker Qualcomm in what would be the largest technology deal in history.

It's getting close to two years since AT&T announced its $ 109 billion bid (with debt) to buy entertainment giant Time Warner and the deal is still stuck in limbo.

Franken also took on Representative Tom Price, Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

Eight months after the big - box giant's initial bid to buy Massmart Holdings, the South African government has approved the deal, giving Walmart a 51 % stake in the local retail chain.rn

, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

In a bid to beef up the Toronto - based retailer's leading sporting goods business, it unveiled on Wednesday an $ 85 - million deal to acquire a premium hockey supplies chain.

Eight months after the big - box giant's initial bid to buy Massmart Holdings, the South African government has approved the deal, giving Walmart a 51 % stake in the local retail chain.

«There were higher bids,» Sahara's head of finance Sandeep Wadhwa said in November of HBJ's deal.

On Tuesday, Fairchild Semiconductor International rejected a $ 2.5 billion bid from Chinese state - backed buyers because of fears that the deal would not get regulatory approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, also known as Cfius.

The bid price was seen as too low in comparison to other deals in the industry.

GENEVA Russia and China are asking U.N. member states to back a draft statement expressing «unwavering support» for the Iran nuclear deal, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday, in a bid to put pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump not to withdraw from it.

The recommendation comes just a day after both the LSE and Maple sweetened their offers in a bid to sway TMX shareholders, who are expected to vote on the LSE deal on June 30.

Federal agencies can also skip open bidding on larger contracts — those above $ 750,000 in disaster zones — if they can show that there's only a small number of vendors who can provide the service or product they need, or to extend a current contract, known as a «follow - on deal.»

The social platform described deals with ESPN, Viacom, NBC Universal, Hearst, Major League Baseball and others in a bid to boost its ad business, Ad Age's Garret Sloane reports.

«We're all concerned about what could be gentrification or displacement, how do we deal with that,» said Aisha Glover, president and chief executive of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, which is involved in the New Jersey city's bid.

During the Obama years, the Justice Department rejected several deals — including Comcast's pursuit of Time Warner Cable, which ended in 2015, and AT&T's bid for T - Mobile in 2011 — for their potential to impede competition.

The crowd has already thinned somewhat in China, for instance, where a number of failing funds have stopped bidding on new deals as they concentrate on unwinding their dormant portfolios.

Amazon's offer would set up a potential bidding war with Walmart, which the NYT reported late last month was nearing a deal to acquire a 60 percent stake in Flipkart.

Sanofi missed out to Johnson & Johnson on buying Switzerland's biotech Actelion in January - a $ 30 billion deal - and was also beaten in August last year by a $ 14 billion bid for cancer specialist Medivation from Pfizer.

Goldman Sachs and Centerview previously advised Fox on its unsolicited $ 80 billion bid in 2014 for Time Warner, among other deals.

The proposed deal, reported earlier by finews.asia, is the latest by Chief Executive Masayoshi Son in his bid to move Softbank further away from its roots in mobile phones into holding stakes in everything from Uber and Alibaba to U.K. software giant Arm.