Sentences with phrase «companies get a contract»

The complaint accused the former aides of soliciting bribes to use their influence to help companies get contracts and other state benefits.

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I sat in a meeting with a CEO recently who told me that at his last company, he forced a customer to pay a large contract up front because he «knew our software rollout wasn't going to be successful, so I wanted to be sure I got paid my commission.»

The company is also getting ready to launch contracts for difference, a financial product that allows investors to bet on bitcoin price swings.

Some of the options you may want to consider are: getting rid of unnecessary bills (i.e. — magazine subscriptions, company mobile phones, etc.) reducing energy expenditure, or using a CVA to renegotiate contract terms in a cost - effective manner.

«You come walking in the door and say, «I've got $ 10 million in contracted revenue with Class A Fortune 1000 companies,» you're gold.»

Among the companies the government contracted to supply such things, and get them to where they were needed, was a South Carolina outfit called IAP Worldwide Services, specialists in logistics.

On top of that, UK companies rely on armies of «zero - hour» contract workers who get no guaranteed minimum hours at work.

The company's principals attended countless trade shows to generate brand awareness, and even signed up for a few trade missions organized by Canadian consulates in Boston and Washington D.C. Targeting government contracts, Novolker's team looked into obtaining U.S. security clearances and getting Prospero listed on a registry of approved suppliers.

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

But now the company is getting contracts on the international side for those systems, he says, pointing to a recent $ 10 - billion agreement to sell armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia.

In 2015, we got our first exclusive contract with a pharmaceutical company that makes an enzyme replacement therapy for hypophosphatasia, which is a genetic bone disease where babies are born without this specific enzyme.

When you consider the full cost of hiring and firing employees — on top of the fact that it's going to get harder and harder to find and keep top performers — nailing down your employment contracts could be a huge factor in how well you or your company fares in the coming talent wars.

The last time he signed with the satellite company in 2010 he got an estimated $ 80 million a year, and the new deal gives SiriusXM the right to use Stern's archives for seven years after the end of his contract.

Service firms are getting into the act too: «Beth Harshfield, the owner of Exhibit Arts, an advertising and marketing company in Wichita, Kan., said she started bidding on military contracts six years ago because «I got tired of the local economy kicking the legs out from under us.»

Telecommunications companies amortize the costs over years of contracted services, eventually making back the money they spent getting people on the grid in the first place.

The latest figures are another indication of a key trend in modern IT, and one that's got traditional server makers — the Dells, the Lenovos (lnvgy), the HPEs (hpe) of the world — on the defense: More big web - scale companies are designing their own servers and having them made by contract manufacturers instead of buying name - brand servers.

Keeping that in mind, «get solid contracts with the companies you're working with, preferably contracts that you can enforce in the United States,» he advises.

If they did try to use it we would be in court immediately seeking an injunction to stop them from using it, but we would probably have to get in line behind oil companies that would be concerned about contracts that they have with companies in B.C. to deliver product.»

It's well known by now that Boeing, one of the biggest companies in the world, lost an important contract to sell satellites to Singapore because it could not get financing from the Export - Import Bank.

When closing an account, some companies will charge you a termination fee, especially if you signed a contract with them and are now trying to get out of it.

«Companies said that they would have to put a contract in front of potential customers the minute they walked in the door or the minute they got on the phone, so we addressed that.

You'll first need to find that perfect plot of land, then check the zoning, then you need to get a building permit, hire an engineer to make some drawings, contract a company to build the car wash, and then there's absolutely no guarantee that it will make money because no one has tried to run a car wash in that location before!

«In order to get access to instruments to understand the world, you need to contract with these companies.

That would mean lost jobs for Montreal companies because they will be in abeyance with their contracts until they get around to ordering planes.

With an oil ETF or oil mutual funds, you get a basket of oil company stocks or oil futures contracts in one fund.

The company will also deepen its contracts with services like Uber, Deliv and other ride and delivery platforms in order to get the groceries to consumers.

But this company is willing to let get a contract «Earn as you work» which i am happy with.

Thanks to a small clause that was included in the original contract, the company can get out of paying up thanks to a technicality.

There would be far fewer divorce lawyers if there were more marriage lawyers, just as companies that are realistic and well - advised when they negotiate a contract tend not to get bogged down subsequently in messy litigation.

For specialty products like the Vermont popcorn company Yolo Snacks, Vermont Smoke & Cure, Vermont Bean Crafters and Vermont Village applesauce, Davis and Clifford work with the company to contract for the product and get it in compliance with federal regulations.

Unfortunately that law had nothing to do with public health but everything to do with breaking exclusivity contracts between hospitals and formula companies so that new brands could get their foot in the door.

Orland Park's contract with the company that manages the village's red light cameras is coming to an end, but that doesn't mean drivers running lights will get a free pass.

He demanded names of the companies that got the projects, the scope of the jobs, monetary valuations of the said contracts, and amount of money released to the contractors.

Curiously, even though McDan is a shipping company, it got a supply contract from Cocobod.

Robert is facing over a seven - count charge for allegedly using Oneplus Holding Limited, their company to get contracts from Dasuki.

You could also take some of the products of these programs out of the public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get done).

Another investment they make is that when a legislator is a «friend,» both in the general voting, but, especially, as a member of committees, they get rewarded afterwards with 7 - and 8 - figure «consulting» contracts after they leave office for jobs as lobbyists for companies they were supposed to oversee, lobbying their former colleagues.

«He got rich off the backs of taxpayers after he steered a town contract to the same company he was moonlighting for on the side.

In this second scheme, the environmental company began making a series of monthly payments to Adam Skelos as his father helped the business position itself to get contracts for rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy.

After that contract between Nassau County and the environmental company was announced, Adam Skelos began getting $ 10,000 a month, as promised.

Skelos was convicted of using his political influence to get his son, Adam, jobs with companies that included an Arizona environmental firm that then received a lucrative contract from his home base of Nassau County.

Singh only won part of a 2012 bread - and - rolls contract at the county jail at the insistence of now - deceased Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt, who wanted a local company to get the contract over an upstate business, Keating said.

Yes, it is completely legal in New York for a person doing business with the state to give the governor $ 250K worth of campaign contributions using Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) and then get an enormous state contract.

Companies seeking preferential government contracts put minorities or women forward in order to get bids or tax credits, says Lewis, but these «fronts» deprive real minority businesses of opportunities.

«I have been working for the company for 5 years now, and have not [got] an employment contract... I get fortnightly payslips where my hours, hourly rate and holiday pay is shown.

Cuomo in 2012 got lawmakers to remove some of the state comptroller's authority over contracts the state awards to private companies.

To get it fixed, the motion said he called Anthony Gulino, who owns and operates both Residential Fence Corp. and Laser Industries, a municipal contracting company based in Ridge that had done $ 15 million worth of work for the county at that point.

No county officials were charged with wrongdoing, but federal prosecutors allege that Dean and Adam Skelos improperly influenced the awarding of the contract to an environmental company as a way to get Adam Skelos more money from the company — which had hired him as a consultant.

«President Trump says he is fighting for American workers, and then signs a law that lets companies that repeatedly steal from their employees get federal contracts,» he said.

May 25 in Syracuse, denying he had anything to do with state contracts being awarded to COR Development, his biggest Central New York contributor and a company who had two executives, Steve Aiello and Joseph Girardi, charged Thursday with paying bribes to get contracts: