Sentences with phrase «state contracting processes»

The package of 11 bills covered everything from campaign contributions to state contracting processes including a Database of Deals for economic development projects.

«If we are to grow our economy and create jobs — a goal many New York leaders purport to have — we must restore the faith of voters and taxpayers in the state contracting process.»

Deutsch and Kaehny provide an update on the push to create a cleaner state contracting process.

Cuomo has sought restrictions on lawmakers» outside incomes and term limits, limits on campaign donations from those involved in the state contracting process and more review of potential conflicts of interest involving the outside incomes of lawmakers and the executive.

Not exact matches

A subsidiary of TFS Corporation and a joint venture between a Melbourne oils producer and a local indigenous business have been shortlisted for wild sandalwood oil processing contracts with the state government.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

Visit the Company Registration Bureau in your State and go through the registration process; Tax Identification Number (TIN), and Employee Identification Number (EIN) to allow you bid for Federal Government supply contracts.

As the second - largest duck processor in the United States, Culver Duck Farms oversees 100 contract growers, 10 breeder farms and processes 25,000 ducks per day.

Earlier this year, Gemak was awarded a contract to manufacture and commission a state - of - the - art continuous yogurt processing plant at Llaeth y Llan, Village Dairy where Gareth Roberts and his family have been producing superb, award winning yogurts since the «80s.

Well - versed in all things surrogacy, from legal contracts to health care to initial health screenings, and based in California, we benefit from the state's liberal attitude to the process.

Deep discounts were brought about by WIC's 1989 shift to a state - by - state exclusive contract bidding process.

And state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli isn't a fan of Cuomo's plan to speed up the contract process by taking away DiNapoli's pre-audit powers.

Two Democratic lawmakers are backing legislation that would explicitly outlaw discrimination in the state's contracting process.

The Department of Environmental Conservation and the state Department of Health are finalizing a health - impact study of fracking, the controversial natural gas extraction process, and announced last week that three experts have been contracted to sort through the guidelines.

The governor also wants to reform the state's contracting process to address a scandal in his office over economic development contracts.

Use of uniform contract award process by state agencies, authorities, SUNY, and all state controlled non-profits;

Major changes could take place, as SUNY leaders, state lawmakers and Cuomo are looking into SUNY's contract procurement process.

With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, some New York lawmakers are pressing for reform of the state's economic development contracting process in light of a scandal that's led to federal corruption charges against several former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The governor is seeking some reforms, including changes to the state's procurement process for contracts, saying he wants a «tighter system.»

In the same statement, the groups recommended «[i] ncreasing overall government accountability and transparency, by... ending the use of state controlled non-profit groups and the state university system in the contract award process.»

Based on input from Business Council members that contract with the state, we are concerned that the creation of this new office will not improve the state procurement process, but rather add another layer of bureaucracy to an already complicated procurement process, further delaying state procurements.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, the Finance Committee voted to move on another reform bill that would add more oversight to the state's economic development project contracting process.

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves said Nassau's contracting process «is the most transparent in the state» as the legislature moved to drop the threshold for legislative approval of personal service contracts from the current $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

He would create a special inspector general to look at economic development and other contracts processed by the State and City University systems.

«New York State has been plagued by serious allegations of impropriety that stem from the contracting process,» Miner said.

The Department of Justice alleges the nano - tech expert conspired with Cuomo donors to rig the bidding process for state contracts.

They were accused, along with several others, of rigging the bidding process in which LPCiminelli won the $ 750 million state contract to build the SolarCity plant at RiverBend in South Buffalo.

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.

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.

According to our criminal complaint, Kaloyeros gave insider information to friends and fixed the bidding process to ensure his cronies won lucrative contracts, funded in part by the state of New York.

Spokeswoman Kady Cooper offered that SolarCity «is not the subject or focus of the investigation, as we were not involved in the vendor selection or contracting process» for the 1 - million - square - foot plant, which is being built with a $ 750 million investment from New York state.

SUNY recently updated these contracts to comply with enhanced foundation guidelines adopted by the Board of Trustees in May 2016, a process that began well before the onset of the Office of the State Comptroller's audit.

Another issue much discussed during the session is the reform of the state's economic development contracting process after a scandal in the governor's office.

The design - build process permits an expedited construction schedule compared to traditional state contracting, and offers significant cost savings with less risk to state taxpayers of design changes and resulting cost overruns.

To try and prevent that kind of corruption from happening again, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has sponsored a bill to clean up the state procurement process, including how contracts are awaState Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has sponsored a bill to clean up the state procurement process, including how contracts are awastate procurement process, including how contracts are awarded.

«Kaloyeros gave insider information to friends and fixed the bidding process to ensure his cronies won lucrative contracts funded in part by the state of New York,» Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

Zemsky, who as the president of Empire State Development now oversees the bidding process for all state development contracts, said Panasonic's manufacturing expertise will strengthen Tesla's competitiveness in the maState Development now oversees the bidding process for all state development contracts, said Panasonic's manufacturing expertise will strengthen Tesla's competitiveness in the mastate development contracts, said Panasonic's manufacturing expertise will strengthen Tesla's competitiveness in the market.

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.

DiNapoli is close and quite popular with the public workers unions whose pension fund he manages and Cuomo, as governor, was preparing to do battle with state workers over a less generous contract, threatening layoffs in the process.

«What we might want to do is what any other entity is used to dealing with here in state government, which is admittedly an arduous process but reinstating the comptroller's role and attorney general's role in reviewing all these contracts,» McDonald said.

He announced that the responsibility for letting future contracts would be given to the Empire State Development Corp., run by Buffalo resident Howard Zemsky, which will develop its own procurement process.

Touching on the state's claim that the government had no contract with Woyome, Mr Justice Ofoe was emphatic that Woyome's claim was based on the tendering process, which was terminated in 2005, as well as his claim for financial engineering and the concurrent approval for his partners by the Central Tender Review Board (CTRB).

Consequently, as the Minister of Communications, I did not and could not have awarded the contract for the NID, or indeed oversee the process,» the minister stated.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his team to start negotiations with the two biggest public employee unions his director of state operations, Howard Glaser, was telling state lawmakers the administration will move ahead with the layoff process if a contracted deal isn't reached in the next four weeks.

What the judgment by the ICC means is that Mr. Woyome has been vindicated when he consistently stated that he obtained his judgment on the basis of the illegal cancellation of the procurement process of CAN 2008 that took place in * 2005 *, and * NOT a 2006 contract * Government of Ghana (GoG) signed with Waterville Holdings.

The firm contracted by the state to help complete an environmental impact statement for the controversial natural gas drilling process hydrofracking clarified its relationship with an energy industry trade group in a letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

«SUNY's contracting process and the players involved and not just the contracts specifically, but kind of on a bigger level their role in redevelopment projects around the state, which had been championed by Governor Cuomo and that which Alain Kaloyeros is at the center.»