Sentences with phrase «public contracts»

They'd be operated by licensed teachers, and their performance expectations would be described in public contracts.

High Court judge, Mr Justice Colton, has ruled that the Department for Regional Development in Northern Ireland breached public contract regulations in rejecting the tender submitted in 2009 as part of a joint venture between FP McCann Limited and Balfour Beatty («BBMC»).

Now her work as the head of the Charbonneau Commission, the public inquiry into allegations of widespread corruption in Quebec's multibillion - dollar construction industry, could ultimately have an important impact on how business is conducted in the province, help prevent corruption in the awarding of public contracts, and limit undue influence of elected officials.

«In employment, the Equality Act fails to protect the rights of employees working for religious organisations, even those organisations working under public contract.

States and provinces have the right to exempt certain public agencies from competitive bidding under WTO rules, although Canada entered these NAFTA negotiations hoping to expand free trade for public contracts with the giant U.S. market.

Katko says his bill also requires U.S. airlines to make public any contracts with Cuban government - controlled entities requiring the airlines to hire employees for airline operations.

Ten charges of corruption and related offences were brought against their firm, including in relation to its attempts to influence those responsible for awarding public contracts in Jamaica and Ghana in the 1990s.

His articles have been published in the American Bar Association's Public Contract Law Journal, the Government Contract Costs, Pricing & Accounting Report, and in the Construction Business Review.

I am sure we all remember the very public contract dispute between Hachette and Amazon.

Mr. Stringer — who said not making public the contract issue would be «malpractice» — said though contracts have gone without review by the start of school before, he didn't think that should have been allowed.

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Governor Cuomo seems to have realized belatedly that the use of the private not - for - profits to oversee public contracts is flawed.

Amazon and Hachette Book Group have put hostilities aside, ending their long - running and very public contract dispute over e-book pricing by signing a new multiyear agreement.

Fellow campaigner Maham Hashmi added: «How can the UK government give lucrative public contracts to a company that shows such disregard for basic human rights standards across all of its business activities?»

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.

Following the discovery of certain corrupt practices in Quebec's construction industry, the province's government introduced the Integrity in Public Contracts Act in 2012.

This was a challenge brought to the contract award by an unsuccessful tenderer, under the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011.

The government of Mexico has been quietly working on a project to track bids for public contracts using blockchain, a government official revealed Tuesday.

The U.S. official did note, however, that Mexico had put forward a counterproposal to a U.S. plan to restrict access for Mexican and Canadian firms to U.S. public contract tenders that sought to put U.S. firms in the same situation in Mexico.

Aulas made public the contract negotiations between the French Ligue 1 club and the 24 - year - old...

«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.

But when subpoenas start to fly over the manner in which public contracts were awarded, it starts to give off a stink.

In» 99, Sandoval held public contracts with several county institutions, including a jail and psychiatric hospital.

Tiptoe through the past contributions and present public contracts of Joe Pontoriero and Worth Construction in New York State and Connecticut.

Political outsider Paladino rents miles of office space to government in a state where public contracts are typically 4 Cronies Only.

The Labor Department does not make public contract documents that form the basis for setting the wage.

The city is urging the State Legislature to grant it several new powers — something it is often loath to do — which the administration asserts will enable it to get more public contracts to so - called minority - and women - owned business enterprises.

According to the charges filed Monday, Adam Skelos was paid more than $ 200,000 by companies close to Dean Skelos to land public contracts.

It would prohibit state officials from steering public contracts to help themselves or their families.

West sponsored a plan in March 2009 that would make public contracts easier to enlarge without going before school boards.

Key public contracts will also make more use of project bank accounts, particularly in construction but also in defence, to ensure that entire supply chains are paid on time rather than simply the prime contractors, which can then hold on to the cash to support their own balance sheets.

There were also several barriers — and subsequent workarounds — identified around technology and infrastructure: grappling with a slow and unwieldy public contract code for technology and even furniture procurement; allowing for Bring Your Own Device programs given the state's free public education clause; and struggling to provide sufficient technology access at school and home for all students if the district wanted to adopt digital materials.

Nonprofit groups and for - profit companies alike are going after public contracts to design evaluations, train teachers and principals in how to use them, and set up online platforms to help sort all of the new data that schools will be collecting.

Each of the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court have held that there is no material variation of the existing public contract and no need for a further procurement process.

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Mélida began her career in private practice before becoming a U.S. government litigator — first at the Department of Justice, where she litigated claims brought by bank shareholders against the U.S., as well as in cases regarding public contracting disputes.

The case is the first appellate decision on the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and breaks important new ground in relation to contract change provisions and the Pressetext material variation test now contained in Regulation 72.

He has litigated antitrust, environmental, securities, ethics and compliance and public contracts matters.

In addition to its numerous public contract claims, Academy also asserted violations of OPRA and the common law right of access.

Ryan has a record of success challenging public agencies in bidding and contract administration, achieving favorable results in bid protests and public contract litigation.

In the past he has advised on dual carriageways planning consents, swimming pool, projects by local authorities vetoed by HMG, road building public contract disputes, commercial disputes including:

The TFEU principles applicable to the free movement of goods (equal treatment, non-discrimination, transparency and proportionality) are embodied in our national Public Contracts Regulations 2015, which were brought into force to implement the European Directive of 2014/24 on public sector contracts.

As this happens UK businesses will need to be alive to stricter business regulation in the EU when bidding for public contracts abroad or exporting goods and services to EU member states.

Many public contracts are awarded without com - petitive bidding.