Sentences with phrase «on public contracts»

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

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VA Secretary David Shulkin said that there was a «public interest exception» for giving Cerner the contract without examining other bids, especially considering that the system would better be able to communicate with the Defense Department's EHR tech, which Cerner also worked on.

Instead, the winning group will have a public - private partnership contract with the government which will allow it use of some state infrastructure, such as sites to build towers on and a fiber optic network owned by the state electricity firm.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

This builds on the $ 4 million system supply contract signed with the Public Transport Authority in 2005.

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

Instead, Singapore is focusing on public transit — S$ 20 billion ($ 14.7 billion) for new railway infrastructure and $ 2.9 billion on upgrading existing train lines, as well as another $ 2.9 billion on bus contract subsidies over the next five years, according to LTA.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

An April 10 advisory on the matter explains that, in light of this guidance, such contracts must be «duly registered» before they are offered for sale, and entities selling them must obtain «the appropriate license and / or permit to sell securities to the public.»

Rule 701 generally allows a stockholder who was issued shares under a written compensatory plan or contract and who is not deemed to have been an affiliate of our company during the immediately preceding 90 days, to sell these shares in reliance on Rule 144, but without being required to comply with the public information, holding period, volume limitation, or notice provisions of Rule 144.

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

Building a technology platform to bring a combination of trust minimised trade, decentralised contract execution, on - chain derivatives and asset backed token issuance to public blockchains.

The deficits can only be reined by a massive political reset and wholesale reneging on the entire social contract, including Medicare, Social Security, public pensions and welfare.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

Furthermore, the contract and the events are easy for everybody to see on a public ledger.

CTK Tokens purchased in the public sale round (ie: with no vesting period) will be available to sell on the Orderbook Exchange (www.orderbook.io) as soon as the web wallet and smart contract is issued to the Purchaser.

Public responsibility is that limit on my activity I am willing to negotiate with others in society in return for a mutual nonaggression pact among ourselves called the social contract.

Contracts are monitored through reports and on - site visits; public officials can interview clients about their experience; fiscal audits occur.

Actually, many of the public shelters are run by a church group or a council of churches on contract to the city.

By a vote of 9 - 8, the court held that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it declined to renew the contract of a public school teacher who had been offering classes in Catholicism.

He was previously the Associate Director of the North American Integration and Development Center in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA from 1995 to 2006, where his research focused on NAFTA, contract agriculture in Mexico, fair trade coffee in Oaxaca, regional competitiveness of the produce industry, living wages in Los Angeles, and immigration and farm labor in California.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

However, Sherwood's own future at the club is still in doubt after a series of shaky results and public outbursts, but should the former midfielder still be at the helm next term, and depending on whether Spurs inserted a buy - back clause in Caulker's contract then a deal could very well be on the cards.

These were fuelled by the player admitting that he had already turned down the chance to sign a bumper new contract and by Brendan Rodgers and other top brass at the Merseyside club putting public pressure on the youngster.

The quarterback was on the verge of signing a five - year contract extension, and the news was public.

As a reminder, the Liverpool midfielder's contract runs it course at the end of this season, and there has been little public mention of any progress in contract talks, with many supporters already operating on the assumption that the player will be somewhere else next season.

Quim Domènench, a Catalan journalist on late night TV debate show «Punto Pelota» broke the story of Valdés reluctance to renew his contract with F.C. Barcelona and his wish to see out his contract and seek new challenges and experience other cultures days before it became official and full public knowledge.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

She served two terms as a Judge on the DC Contract Appeals Board before joining the District Office of the Attorney General, procurement division, with responsibility for acquiring services and goods for the District's Human Services Department (infant and maternal, HIV, mentally ill, and elderly divisions) and Public Housing Department.

Glen Ellyn expects to get 300 tons of salt delivered Tuesday, and it's the last of what the village will have on contract, says Public Works Director Julius Hansen.

They «re on a gravy train - fat television and radio contracts, booming gate receipts, and now public funds as well.

After I wrote a series of articles about the industrially - processed convenience foods being served in my daughter's elementary school here in the District of Columbia I heard that Tony had been reluctant to talk to me because he thought I was putting too much pressure on Whitney Bateson, the nutritionist for Chartwells, the giant food service company contracted to provide meals for D.C. public schools.

«We believe that our recommendations for improved oversight, new inspections, more transparency and more effective due diligence on companies who seek public contracts will all contribute to this.

De Blasio and NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer collided again over the administration's $ 6.4 million contract video recording devices to be mounted on NYPD officers, as de Blasio accused his potential Democratic primary rival of pulling a «cheap stunt» by calling public attention to a city Department of Investigation probe into the deal.

Public contracts, such as the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme for young people continuing with education, are also expected to be on the agenda.

The reason behind de Maizière's public deliberations on this topic is a soon to expire leasing contract between the German Bundeswehr and Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI).

I enjoy watching Question Time on a Thursday night, partly because it's fun to watch politicians contract uncomfortably in the face of public scrutiny and partly because David Dimbleby reminds me of Grandad.

But thanks to what appears to be a rather lucrative five - year contract deal — it's hard to tell, exactly, because scant details on the agreement have been made public — Donohue appears to have had a change of heart where Cuomo and his political aspirations are concerned, though the union president's newfound magnanimous attitude toward the governor likely won't extend beyond 2018.

They will read this election as a positive indicator that the incoming government is willing and able to work with them on their own terms, offering stable contracts and a «hands - off» relationship between private firms and public bodies such as the National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

The Smithtown Messenger has been designated an official paper (for required public notices of meetings, contract bids and hearings etc.) by the Suffolk County government, which spent more than $ 50,000 on advertising last year.

He noted the failure of G4S to meet the Olympics security requirements has shown the limitations of private sector companies taking on public sector contracts, the defence secretary, said.

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a state spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

He also wants collective bargaining contracts to be made public before they're voted on.

The union representing Metro Bus drivers and mechanics says it wants the public and the Governor to know members are «very frustrated» about the lack of a contract after eight years of negotiations, and have «no confidence» in the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Executive Director to reach an agreement on their behalf.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

[184] On November 4, 2008, Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor's press secretary, said the city would halt spending on 10 public relations contracts that could have paid as much as $ 5 million eacOn November 4, 2008, Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor's press secretary, said the city would halt spending on 10 public relations contracts that could have paid as much as $ 5 million eacon 10 public relations contracts that could have paid as much as $ 5 million each.

It wants to do so by insisting it is used by all companies reliant on public sector contracts.

At 10 a.m., the NYC Mayor's Office of Contract Services holds a public hearing on contract awards, Spector Hall, 22 Reade St., MaContract Services holds a public hearing on contract awards, Spector Hall, 22 Reade St., Macontract awards, Spector Hall, 22 Reade St., Manhattan.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.