Sentences with phrase «government contracts awarded»

In January 2009, he had pleaded guilty to overbilling the government by $ 265,000 on government contracts awarded to a technology company he ran.

From October 2015 to September 2016, the D.C. metro area received $ 70 billion in government contracting awards, according to USspending.gov.

Not exact matches

German shipbuilder Lurssen has awarded Civmec a key contract for the Royal Australian Navy offshore patrol vessels, which are being built as part of a $ 3.6 billion federal government program.

Henderson - based Austal has secured a $ 29.7 million contract to build two additional Pacific patrol boats on top of an existing $ 305 million federal government program, days after German shipbuilder Lurssen awarded Civmec a key contract for the Royal Australian Navy offshore patrol vessels.

Adelaide - based York Civil has been awarded a $ 32.1 million contract to build the new Charles Street bus bridge and busway for the state government.

The state government has awarded Cockram Construction a $ 13.4 million contract to build a new primary school in Baldivis, adding to the builder's education centres portfolio.

The state government has awarded $ 91.6 million worth of contracts to four building companies for the refurbishment and redevelopment of six health service centres across rural Western Australia.

The federal government has responded to Andrew Forrest's Creating Parity review by announcing plans to award 3 per cent of all supply contracts, worth an estimated $ 135 million per year, to indigenous businesses.

Universal Constructions and Badge have been awarded contracts by the state government to build three new schools in Perth, worth a combined $ 36.4 million.

The state government has awarded building and construction contracts to a number of local businesses, including Perkins Builders, with the combined value of the contracts worth about $ 37.3 million.

The state government has awarded an $ 11.5 million contract to Universal Constructions for development of the replacement Doubleview Primary School, while other local builders have shared in $ 26.7 million worth of work.

The state government has awarded contracts worth a combined $ 104.6 million to local builders Broad Construction Services, Pindan and Emco Building.

A spat among airlines over which deserved the contract to fly U.S. government workers on certain routes intensified on Tuesday, with the chief executive of JetBlue Airways calling rivals hypocritical for protesting its award.

The U.S. government awarded 22.25 percent of its contracts to small businesses in the 2012 fiscal year, which ended in September, according to a scorecard released by the U.S. Small Business Administration today.

Belmont - based Pindan has been awarded an $ 18 million state government building contract in Carnarvon, while Bunbury - based Perkins Builders has received an $ 8 million government contract.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

The federal government's official goal is to award 5 percent of federal contracts to women - owned business, but it has struggled to consistently reach that mark.

Four local building companies have won the first batch of contracts to be awarded by the state government under its $ 265 million «Year 7» building program.

Five local companies will share in a combined $ 92 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government, with the majority of the work comprising school construction jobs.

One of the goals the law set: The government should aim to award 5 percent of its contracts for which small businesses are eligible to women - owned businesses.

The Program provides government - owned procuring agencies a tool to help meet their WOSB contracting goal of 5 % of prime contracting dollars being awarded to WOSBs.

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

«Today I am calling on the Government Accountability Office to investigate the circumstances surrounding the multimillion - dollar contract awarded to Whitefish Energy — a brand new company with two employees,» said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D - WA), the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

CONAKRY, April 27 (Reuters)-- Guinea's government said on Friday that it had approved plans to award a mining contract to a Netherlands - based company to develop a $ 1.4 billion bauxite mine and aluminium refinery.

The United States Government spends billions of dollars every year awarding different types of contracts to meet the needs of the US military and other govGovernment spends billions of dollars every year awarding different types of contracts to meet the needs of the US military and other governmentgovernment...

In the US, the Women Owned Business Contracting Program required the Federal Government to award 5 % of its prime contracts to women - owned businesses as early as 1994.

The Salvation Army was awarded the Government contract in 2011 to provide specialist support for adult victims of modern slavery including safe accommodation, counselling, medical care, translation services and legal counselling.

Having observed and as such chided the contractors for what he described as slow pace of work on site, pointing out that he would continually be paying unscheduled visit to site to ensure that contracts awarded by government are properly monitored.

The PR firm, owned by actress and member of the ruling government Selassie Ibrahim, has recently been in the news for admittedly inflating a bus rebranding contract awarded them by the Transport ministry.

Convention Peoples» Party's presidential candidate Ivor Greenstreet says he sees nothing wrong with President Mahama receiving a gift from a Burkinabe contractor after he had been awarded two contracts from government.

In March 2017, the government cancelled a contract worth GH cents 255 million awarded by the John Mahama administration for the supply of farm inputs to cocoa farmers upon the advice of the newly inaugurated Board of Ghana Cocoa Board chaired by Hackman Owusu Agyemang.

It was a week or so after I had brought trouble upon myself by publishing a story about a Ford Expedition «gift» a contractor who had been awarded government of Ghana contracts gave to the President of Ghana.

A report has criticised George Osborne for letting down British manufacturing and awarding government contracts to overseas companies.

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.

They include greater accountability measures for the awarding of government contracts, more transparency for «lump - sum» budget appropriations and expenditures, and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

Earlier documents sighted by Citi News revealed that the contract for the new cars for the Presidency was awarded by the Mahama government on the 3rd of January, 2017, to Amalgamated Security Services LTD..

In the same statement, the groups recommended «[i] ncreasing overall government accountability and transparency, by... ending the use of state controlled non-profit groups and the state university system in the contract award process.»

However, Government in a statement issued by Communications Minister, Edward Omane Boamah said even though the car was received, it had nothing to do with the contract awarded.

They highlight particularly the concern that if those awarding government contracts focus on cost rather than effectiveness then smaller providers (who may lack economies of scale but might offer advantages such as innovation or better quality relationships with service users) will lose out.

Due to the fact that this was a Chinese Government Grant projected the contract was awarded and all the procurement was undertaken by the Embassy of China in Ghana, the school was constructed and furnished in 3 months, as previously stated it has been commissioned and handed over to the Awutu Senya West

The Burkinabe contractor Oumarou Djibril Kanazoe — a friend of President Mahama — was later awarded three government contracts but he rejected the last one after the issue was made public.

Instead our government awarded a massive train contract to Germany at the expense of Bombardier, the UK's last train manufacturer.

Also at 11 a.m., leading government watchdog groups call on the state Legislature and governor to pass legislation that strengthens independent oversight over state contracting and a Database of Deals to ensure fair and transparent contract awards, outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

DAMAC, the company partnering on Trump's new golf course in Dubai, awarded a multimillion - dollar contract to a firm owned by the Chinese government — violating the president's promise to avoid foreign government transactions while he's in office.

President Akufo - Addo has stated that his government has saved some Ghc5.7 billion from road contracts that were awarded under the John Mahama administration.

Simple reforms to prevent rigging and corruption in the awarding of government contracts are uncontroversial solutions to a well - documented problem.

The Coalition Agreement makes five key pledges on public sector procurement, including a pledge to award 25 % of government contracts to SMEs.

The investigations into the state's contracting also identified allegations of a «pay - to - play» system in which government contracts were allegedly awarded to big campaign donors.

«[But] after 15 months into the government of NPP, I dare them [to] show one contract under the cocoa road [project] that has been inflated or that has wrongly been awarded.»

Government says it has saved the country close to $ 1.1 billon of the country's scarce resources by renegotiating the contract of the mobile interoperability deal originally awarded to Sibton.