Sentences with phrase «of national contracts»

The coverage may have been patchy but the experience of national contracts appears to have replaced that with provision that may be uniform and operating to minimum standards at minimal cost, but uniformly token in actual effectiveness.

He also was a faculty member of the National Contract Management Association and The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.

• Promote pharmaceutical business with department of defense hospitals, and ensure compliance of national contract pharmaceuticals.

Member of National Contract Management Association (NCMA).

Not exact matches

Avista Capital Partners has formed a new company to fund a portion of the equity required to design and build three 50,000 deadweight ton product carriers, which Seacor Holdings (NYSE: CKH) has contracted to build at General Dynamic's National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in San Diego.

About a month after national advertising agency buyCalls contracted out a phone marketing campaign for a home - security client, it noticed a major discrepancy between the performance of its call - center vendors in North Carolina and Indiana.

«I think what we're seeing is that as there are some advantages in contracting, and a rise in awareness of women - owned certifications from WBENC [Women's Business Enterprise National Council] and a couple of others, some firms are changing from 50 - 50 to women - owned.»

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

Telco giant Telstra and national contracting companies Service Stream and BSA have been awarded contracts for the building and maintenance of the national broadband network (NBN).

Austal has won a $ 63 million contract to build two patrol boats for the Australian Department of Defence, with the terms of the deal signed with National Australia Bank including a buy - back clause.

Mining giant Woodside Petroleum will expand its presence off the Moroccan coast after entering into a contract with the country's national oil company for a licence to explore another block of the Doukkala basin.

As a result, First National Bank of Omaha will not renew its contract with the National Rifle Association to issue the NRA Visa Card.

Rail freight business Pacific National has awarded engineering firm Downer a $ 1 billion contract to provide maintenance services to 300 of the Asciano subsidiary's train fleet.

The telecom regulator is holding a week of hearings in Gatineau, Que., as it aims to set national standards for the content and clarity of cellphone contracts.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts, the sources told Reuters.

The $ 4.7 - million company won its first contract outside the DOD on good references and luck: the National Institutes of Health wanted a minority - owned company to survey the career opportunities for minorities in biomedical research.

Exxon board member Bill George led a National Association of Corporate Directors Blue Ribbon Commission on «Executive Compensation and the Role of the Compensation Committee,» which included recommendations such as not offering contracts to executives (giving the board more flexibility in how it deals with the CEO's pay and tenure), which is reflected in the pay practices at ExxonMobil.

Major League Baseball and the National Football League have lucrative contracts with the television networks and closely guard the airing of their games.

Ironically, the threat of Zika is likely far greater in the United States, where the first locally - contracted cases began popping up last week, according to Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine.

And if contract workers lose a contract or are otherwise discriminated against on the basis of age, religion, sex, disability status, or national origin, they have little recourse.15 Moreover, discretionary company - provided benefits — such as paid leave and retirement contributions — are not typically available to independent contractors.

National Membership with WBENC provides you not only with unlimited national access to 14,000 + certified WBEs and WOSBs to fulfill your contracting needs, but you will also work directly with us to receive the tools and resources needed to build the type of Supplier Diversity Program that best fits your company'National Membership with WBENC provides you not only with unlimited national access to 14,000 + certified WBEs and WOSBs to fulfill your contracting needs, but you will also work directly with us to receive the tools and resources needed to build the type of Supplier Diversity Program that best fits your company'national access to 14,000 + certified WBEs and WOSBs to fulfill your contracting needs, but you will also work directly with us to receive the tools and resources needed to build the type of Supplier Diversity Program that best fits your company's needs.

Under the contract, National pays HXT the return of the TSX 60 plus its dividends while HXT pays National the interest from its bonds.

Move and the National Association of Realtors filed a lawsuit against Zillow in March 2014 alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Commodity prices may be affected by a variety of factors at any time, including but not limited to, (i) changes in supply and demand relationships, (ii) governmental programs and policies, (iii) national and international political and economic events, war and terrorist events, (iv) changes in interest and exchange rates, (v) trading activities in commodities and related contracts, (vi) pestilence, technological change and weather, and (vii) the price volatility of a commodity.

Home shoppers signed 1.3 percent fewer contracts to buy existing homes in April compared with March, according to a monthly index from the National Association of Realtors.

The National Association of Realtors said contracts to buy previously owned homes rose 0.4 per cent in March, slowing from February's 2.8 per cent increase.

The General Social Survey supplement measuring of broad - based employee stock ownership, profit sharing, and stock options is conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago on contract with the Employee Ownership Foundation.

According to the National Business Group on Health, just three percent of large self - insured employers contract directly with an accountable - care organization for health care, but those that do are reaping the benefits.

And the industry is contracting: After peaking in the late 1990s, the number of active VC firms fell from 744 to 526 in the decade 2001 — 2011, and the amount of venture capital raised was just under $ 19 billion in 2011, down from $ 39 billion in 2001, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

Most of China's crude imports are bought on long - term contracts between China's major oil companies and foreign national oil companies.

A day earlier, First National Bank of Omaha said it would not renew a contract with the NRA to issue a credit card branded by the lobbying group.

On the political front, «Denominating oil contracts in yuan would promote the use of China's currency in global trade, one of the country's key long - term goals as an alternative to the dollar — making this even more appealing to sanctions - threatened countries relying on the dollar,» Ramady wrote in The National.

Along with the deterioration we continue to observe in the order surplus as measured by regional and national Fed and purchasing managers surveys, actual industrial production and the value of new orders in manufacturing have contracted on a year - over-year basis.

The report also highlighted the Canadian government's major consolidation of federal email services, a procurement project that cited national security as a reason for requiring the contracted company to keep data in Canada.

Corporate Plus ®, is an unprecedented membership program of the National Minority Supplier Development Council for the highest caliber minority business enterprises which have the proven capacity to handle national contracts for major corporations, bring them to the attention of more national corporate members, and expand their participation in the NMSDC National Minority Supplier Development Council for the highest caliber minority business enterprises which have the proven capacity to handle national contracts for major corporations, bring them to the attention of more national corporate members, and expand their participation in the NMSDC national contracts for major corporations, bring them to the attention of more national corporate members, and expand their participation in the NMSDC national corporate members, and expand their participation in the NMSDC Network;

«This continues the pickup in activity seen in the manufacturing sector since May, when the PMI was contracting somewhat at 49.0,» says Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of Manufacturers.

I am grateful to Professor Patricia Benner of the University of California Medical School (San Francisco) for calling my attention to the model proposed by Stuart E. Dreyfus in «Formal Models versus Human Situational Understanding: Inherent Limitations on the Modeling of Business Expertise,» Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract: F 49620 -79-C0063), National Technical Information Service, February 1981, AD - AO97468 / 3.

That is why, for example, most Americans have likened their national enterprise to a «covenant» more often than to the more secular image of a «contract.»

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with Contract with America.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The National Institutes of Health awarded contracts totaling $ 76 million in 2014 to biomedical scientists for fetal tissue research.

Kaepernick, who is opting out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers — meaning he'll soon be a free agent — now says he plans to stand during the National Anthem.

Today, NPC assists in the management of the delivery of safe, high - quality produce to national and regional restaurant chains, schools, healthcare organizations and contract food - feeding organizations.

Nowadays, while Burkett Restaurant Equipment continues to post a large number of used equipment sales, primarily through its online commerce division and Toledo showroom, the company has also moved into the national contracts arena.

The education marketplace makes up about 80 percent of the business for The Nutrition Group, a regional foodservice company that frequently bids against national firms for school contracts, Moore says.

With more than 275 million visitors each year, the National Park Service has more than 400 concession contracts with private entities providing a variety of services from lodging, food and beverage and retail to boat tours, mountaineering and rafting guides.

The IBWSS UK 2018 show is particularly noteworthy for being the only show of its kind in the UK where it is possible for importers and distributors to meet with a full spectrum of exhibitors and attendees representing every facet of the private label and bulk wine markets — including wineries, distilleries, retailers, national and regional chains, negociants, contract manufacturers and brokerage firms.

Ron Puvak has been appointed managing director of the Contract Packaging Association (CPA), the national, nonprofit trade organization for those who manufacture, package, warehouse and ship products for a variety of consumer packaged goods companies and their suppliers.