Sentences with phrase «competitive bidding of»

Business News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com play videoBoakye Agyarko, Minister of Energy, Ghana The Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko has inaugurated a committee to supervise the open competitive bidding of Ghana's oil blocs to prospective oil exploration companies.

The Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko has inaugurated a committee to supervise the open competitive bidding of Ghana's oil blocs to prospective oil exploration companies.

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Apart from possible scrutiny from the CCI, a bid from Amazon also comes with the risk of having to share highly competitive data during due diligence.

Thompson and others, however, argue that given the amount of resources Facebook is throwing into video, it is bound to solve these problems eventually, and doing so will make the platform — as well as other strong contenders such as Snapchat, which claims 10 billion video views a day — far more competitive when it comes to bidding for traditional consumer ad spending.

In the span of a few months the company announced that it would acquire both AOL and Yahoo as it works to load its formidable network still the most comprehensive and widespread in the U.S. with content in a bid to keep a highly competitive (and highly lucrative) market from turning into a commodity business.

Saunders has openly argued that pharma can head off more stringent drug price regulation in the U.S. (such as Trump's suggestions of competitive bidding and direct negotiations in Medicare) by self - policing.

The consultant was convicted of stealing $ 1.7 million through inflated invoices, which he spent on luxury cars and Long Island real estate, while secretly favoring Verizon and undermining the competitive bidding process required by E-rate rules.

Governor Ivey's first major act, the Alabama Jobs Act, was a revision and extension of a jobs bill first signed in 2015 to make the state and its incentive packages more competitive in bidding for business.

Competitive bidding could very well be an effective way of fighting sky - high drug prices that are taking a toll on patients and their families.

BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters)- The U.S. government will reduce its administrative surcharge on foreign arms sales to 3.2 percent from 3.5 percent from June as part of a broader bid to make U.S. weapons more competitive internationally, a top U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

It's interesting to know that in the same geographical area of the country, competitive bids for the same work from several contractors can differ by as much as 30 percent.

The trick to bidding on keywords (because some are competitive and expensive) is making sure that the money you are spending is not more than the price of the product or service you are selling.

The operational requirements and financial characteristics of agency MBS are complex, and since the New York Fed did not yet have expertise in this area, four external investment management firms were selected, through a competitive bidding process, to assist in implementing the purchase program.

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

The deals can present potential conflicts if contracts are awarded without a competitive bidding process or if associates profit at the expense of the company and its shareholders.

Add to that the fact that no fewer than four dealers bid on fulfilling every buy order placed by Hard Assets Alliance customers, and we're able to offer some of the most competitive pricing on the planet.

The Act empowers the Secretary to grant leases to the highest qualified responsible bidder on the basis of sealed competitive bids and to formulate regulations as necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act.

Quick Fact: Express Scripts utilizes the Rule of One, an initiative that insures a diverse supplier is represented on every competitive bid.

The price that a noncompetitive bidder pays is the average bid price of all competitive bids.

10 Year Treasuries can be purchased directly from the TreasuryDirect.com website via competitive or noncompetitive bidding with a minimum purchase of $ 100.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Daiwa Securities are studying a merger of their respective asset management units in a bid to become more competitive.

Under this system goods and services are distributed by means of an open market in commodities, land, labor, and money, the values or prices of which are determined by competitive bidding.

When this idea was attacked, on the grounds that the new Medicare subsidy might not be adequate to purchase sufficient health care benefits, Ryan changed his proposal so that Medicare would have a «defined benefit,» but the size of the government subsidy would be determined by competitive bidding (determining who could provide the benefits at the lowest price), rather than by government bureaucrats.

Compatriot group Emmi has said it would continue with its proposed bid for the cheese business, adding that it regretted the collapse of SDF as it weakened the competitive nature of the Swiss market.

A three - way contest war for Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, interest in Wesfarmers» insurance business, which was picked up by Insurance Australia Group, and a bidding war for Commonwealth Property Office Fund, are significant as there has not been much of a competitive process outside the infrastructure space for three years.

In a bid to provide a wide range of dairy products at competitive prices, food manufacturers in Canada are demanding a freeze on the price for industrial milk.

Liverpool took on Plymouth in the FA Cup third round replay on Wednesday night in a bid to win their first competitive game of 2017.

Stefan Harvey, infant nutrition program director for the Washington - based center, said 6 out of the 10 states with the largest infant nutrition programs have adopted competitive bidding rather than the open market system to save the most money.

The contract extension would be viewed as a modification of that agreement and not as a new contract that would be subject to competitive bidding.

Inc. of Itasca, a supplier of office furniture, to seek competitive bids for furnishings for the interior of Park Place, a new community center under construction.

The award of this contract was the result of an international competitive bidding process which was in compliance with laid down requirements of the European Union.

«In January 2013, County Executive Mark Poloncarz requested that our office look into alleged past issues related to competitive bidding for projects at the Erie County Department of Public Works.

Because of the highly competitive primary, Democrats have sought out edges such as endorsements from activist organizations to boost their profiles and candidacies in the bid to take on Faso.

According to MultiChoice Ghana's statement of claim, SuperSport was granted exclusive rights by the English Premier League, through a competitive bidding process to broadcast the football matches of the EPL for the 2015/2016 football season within Sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana.

Many of the pacts went to politically connected companies without competitive bidding — and were never openly discussed, debated or voted on, a Newsday investigation found.

No matter the internal strife over Donald Trump's presidential bid, the intensely competitive Republican primary contest is bringing a booming number of voters to the polls — while Democratic turnout plunges, raising questions about whether these trends will last through November.

The vast majority of the contracts of from $ 24,000 to $ 25,000 were for «personal services» — specialized work such as engineering and consulting that Nassau exempts from the competitive bidding requirements it enforces for most jobs.

The Bank said Mr Blair's firm offered «the most competitive price» of five competing bids.

Ah, the good old days, when a politically connected person could pick up 65 acres of publicly owned land without the hassle of pesky things like appraisals and competitive bids.

He added in the letter that if the dorm had been considered a government project at the time, a design / build contract «would have not been allowed by the competitive bidding laws» of the state.

UCIDA was cited in a report by the Budget Office as one of nine industrial development agencies (IDAs) in New York that did not use competitive bidding practices for professional services.

Further, Cuomo also used to take issue with the notion of a competitive bidding process for the Aqueduct site and expressed faith in Genting's private - sector bone fides.

«This investigation shows that DOE acts as though the rules don't matter,» Stringer said «We're talking about billions of dollars spent without real oversight, without competitive bids, and without accountability.»

Brian Sampson of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Empire State Chapter: «The governor is making a mockery of competitive - bidding laws.

I don't think Big Ed was providing that nice looking young lady with a couple of contracts just below the limit that would require a competitive bidding process because she was doing any favors for him.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo administration to expand broadband access across the state, saying the guidelines that Empire State Development is using to award the competitive bids are «arbitrary and capricious.»

This is a «clear case why taxpayers should demand competitive bidding and an open contracting process,» said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«In assessing the full scope of the Amazon HQ2 RFP opportunity, it was apparent that by linking our efforts, the combined Buffalo Rochester Metro Corridor can offer a proposal that is both compelling and extremely competitive,» said InBN President and CEO Tom Kucharski and GRE Interim President and CEO Matt Hurlbutt at the time of the bid.

In almost all of its personal service contracts, which are meant for noncapital work such as consulting, parks officials said the service was «specialized, unique and involves skills that can not be evaluated through a competitive bid process.»

State university leaders in Syracuse made a commitment in 2007 to convey 10 acres of state - owned land to a private developer without competitive bidding.