Sentences with phrase «low bid system»
The low bid system is a false economy: what would contemporary dollars spent on these major repairs have been worth 30 years ago when these buildings were first constructed?
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For example, when a Scandinavian city fire department decided to install an information retrieval system to give fire fighters instant read - outs of information about the fire - capabilities of any given address, they chose an American computer data base company because it entered the lowest bid.
State officials are hoping that an alternative to Wisconsin's current low - bid - wins system for road projects will help them stretch precious transportation money just a bit further.
Of the 10, Persol Systems put in the lowest bid of GHC17 million approximately $ 3.4 million.
Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.
a security distribution system in which the price is set, based on auction bids, at the lowest level that will raise the requisite funds