Sentences with phrase «public bids last»

Not exact matches

SABMiller immediately issued its own statement saying it still didn't like the terms of the new offer, which would give its public shareholders 42.15 pounds a share in cash, a premium of 44 % over where the shares were trading before news of AB InBev's intention to bid leaked out last month.

Amazon set off a national bidding war last week when it challenged public officials to propose why their city should be home to the company's second national headquarters.

This is in line with the governor's public comments last year after Percoco was charged in a bribery and bid - rigging case that includes prominent upstate developers and former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros.

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.

FRMC, an entity that controls millions of public dollars that just last year adopted commonly accepted standards of transparency, figures in the state's criminal complaint against former president Alain Kaloyeros, who is alleged to have rigged the state - sponsored nonprofit's bidding processes to favor certain companies for construction - related contracts.

James, a former city councilwoman, public defender and assistant attorney general, is the first Democrat to formally launch a bid to replace former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned last week following allegations that he abused four women.

But Rangel, in what is almost certainly his last bid for public office, is facing an unusually potent alignment of forces that make this the most difficult race of his career since he unseated longtime Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D) in 1970.

In a bid to become the city's first African - American mayor, Marlon Anderson threw his hat in the ring Wednesday night, announcing at Albany public library's main branch that this will be the last time he runs for political office.

Following the bid - rigging scandal involving several upstate economic development projects last fall, it is clear stronger protections on the procurement process are necessary.9 All state agencies, public authorities, and affiliates should be required to have competitive and transparent contracting processes.

Aqueduct Entertainment Group, which emerged late last month as the surprise — and controversial — winner of a drawn - out bidding process to develop the Queens racino, is moving to smooth things over with the public by cutting ties with Darryl Greene, the partner who pleaded guilty to stealing $ 500,000 from city agencies in the 1990s.

An additional $ 1.7 billion worth of business — through cancellation or disqualification of LPCiminelli bids — was lost after the federal complaint was made public last September, the court papers say.

«This is about public service,» said Mr. Spitzer, trying to ignore the shouting, hours after announcing his surprise, last - minute bid for city comptroller last night.

Those leaders believe that the official, Steve Levy, a blunt - spoken fiscal hawk and contrarian who collected 96 percent of the vote in his last re-election bid, can tap into the public's anti-incumbent sentiment and frustration with Albany's overspending.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Following the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the Barnett formula came to widespread attention amid concerns that in a last - minute government bid to sway voters against independence, Scotland had been promised continued high public spending.

Lord Adonis, the transport secretary in the last Labour government, argues that if this new public - private partnership, LNER, proves a success it should be allowed to bid for other franchises around the country when they next come due.

He did, however, lament the fact that a number of high - profile corruption inquiries — including those surrounding former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, former Speaker Sheldon Silver and allegations of Buffalo Billions bid - fixing — didn't become public until after last November's election.

But though they're the first, they are hardly the last, as Democratic Party operatives, public relations men, and advisors are brought in to save the senator's political career, public image, and his chances of a presidential bid.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.