The decision shut out Orange County, which had been competing with
several bid proposals, including a massive resort complex that would have sought to draw in New York City tourists.
Not exact matches
Several councilors criticized the city's
bidding process, saying it appeared to create confusion among some of the nine companies that submitted
proposals.
The general designer at Kamov, Sergei Mikheyev, said at the show that he had received
several proposals from British aerospace companies to submit a joint
bid for the contract.
That includes Statoil's winning
bid for an 80,000 - acre wind farm off the coast of Long Island, N.Y.
Several other companies have submitted
proposals.
One of the scaling
proposals, SegWit2x, rolled out a beta protocol over the weekend in a
bid to activate SegWit and introduce a 2 MB hard fork network upgrade
several weeks from now.