Sentences with phrase «in government contracting awards»

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Interviewed on Today this morning the Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, said that the terms of the initial contract had been set by the last Labour government in 2008 and there was no option but to award Siemens the contract given that it made the «highest value for money bid».

Catsimatidis, who owns United Metro Energy Corp., is building a new biodiesel - processing facility in Greenpoint, and was already awarded a $ 62 million contract last year that provided city government with «heating oil, bio-blend and bio-heat bulk deliveries,» records show.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Bellone announced that Suffolk has awarded a $ 338,000 contract to Veratics, a Florida company, to create a web portal for local governments in Suffolk to share services and track such efforts.

Lewis has also complained that City Hall has been slow in awarding contracts to minority - owned firms to work on government projects or provide services.

Skelos, 68, was charged last year of aiding Adam's business interests through official actions, personally intervening for a contract that awarded $ 12 million to AbTech, a storm water treatment company that was doing business with governments in New York.

This is vital as the government seems positioned to award G4S a renewed contract to run Brook House detention centre in May of this year.

It would also make it more difficult for the government to award G4S contracts in the future.

He also denied that the government acted corruptibly in the award of the GOSApp contract, emphasizing that, the App is good for Ghana and that it would help solve the big problem in the property address system as it goes digital.

President Nana Akufo - Addo during the 2018 State of the Nation Address in Parliament disclosed that his government awarded 233 contracts on sole sourcing basis.

(g) The $ 470 million contract awarded to ZTE, (a Chinese company) in 2009 by the federal government for the construction of CCTV cameras in Abuja and Lagos has been abandoned.

Mr. Hammond said, about 12 percent of work has been done eight months after the contract was awarded by the NDC government in 2016, adding that, 20 km of the road has been completed and opened to the public.

Having said that, and in light of the investigation into the awarding of contracts at the Solar City facility in Buffalo, we hope that New York State and relevant agencies do everything in their power to provide a transparent bidding process,» said Joshua Reap, a government affairs director for the group.

The airport was taken over by the Maldives Airports Company Limited after a high - voltage legal tussle in which GMR.Maldives government maintains the reason for cancellation of the project was because «the contract was illegally awarded» by the then President Nasheed.

The outgoing National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will discharge its duties perfectly including awarding last minute contracts if it deems fit until it finally hands over power to the New Patriotic Party in January 2017.

Inyang - Eyen, who commended the cordial business relationship between the state government and other construction companies operating in the state, lamented that Julius Berger has demonstrated lack of seriousness in executing terms of contracts awarded to them which is frustrating the effort of government.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari recently suspended the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr David Babachir Lawal and ordered an investigation into the allegations of violations of law and due process made against him in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE).

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has tackled corruption in state government, is investigating the awarding of contracts under the Buffalo Billion program, The New York Post reports.

According to him, Akufo - Addo's government is intentionally creating another bureaucratic structure with the Free Senior High School policy in order to award contracts to their cronies at the national level, crippling local business where the schools are located.

Critics are of the view that; the $ 100,000 dollar Ford vehicle gift presented to President Mahama in 2012, when he was Vice President, amounts to conflict of interest, and that he must be impeached since the contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, is also said to have been awarded some lucrative government contracts.

Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving some dubious contracts from a local council in Niger State to the tune of N76.5 m, said his company, Romix soilfix, was one of the over 20 construction companies who were duly awarded contracts for rural roads some five years ago by the Niger State Government.

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has alleged that government has ordered the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), to acquire a 24 % stake in a contract awarded to one of the companies belonging to businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man at the centre of the controversial GHc51 million judgment debt saga.

Bharara is investigating other facets of state government, including contracts awarded as part of the Buffalo Billion and Cuomo's disbanding of a commission meant to address ethical problems in Albany.

«Making reference to projects like «the multibillion naira Opon Imo, a contract that was allegedly awarded to or co-ordinated by the governor's son, N20.9 billion garment factory, RLG factory, white elephant Osun Airport that has gulped billions of Osun people's money, it is unfathomable how Aregbesola is able to sleep in the night knowing full well that his government is running on deceit.

Present local law fails to reasonably preclude — and could actually enable — county officers and employees from accepting an overabundance of questionable gifts, skirting campaign contribution limits through the use of the LLC loophole, abusing their offices and taxpayer funded items to freely self - promote their personal names and images (or «brand»), and awarding contracts to those vendors who unabashedly pay to play in county government.

Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has commenced the process of awarding contracts for the construction of a total of 181 community roads across the 57 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the State, in line with the promise made by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

A statement by the Special Adviser on Communications to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Hakeem Bello, on Thursday said N119, 369,520,000 liability had resulted from a judgment entered against the government over a litigation from a metering contract awarded by a previous administration in 2003.

State government has utilized design - build to save time and money on big infrastructure projects and New York City wants similar power to streamline the process by awarding one contract for project design and execution, instead of engaging in separate processes and contracts.

Though no name was mentioned in the statement by the Presidency, Nigeria's Senate last week called for the resignation of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal over contract awarded to a company linked to him.

He said government would ensure transparency in the procurement process, awarding of contracts, as well as transparency in the commodity market and prevent any facilitation of corruption in the country as promised by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo during the electioneering period.

But an Italian official said his government is also holding back on Alpha because it wants guarantees that contracts for Italian industry are awarded in proportion to the amount it contributes.