Sentences with phrase «when awarding a contract»

The city also wants to amend state law to allow the city to recognize MWBEs that are registered with the state as well as those that are city - certified, when awarding contracts.

This is because a petitioner, who is seeking the removal of the EC chairperson, Charlotte Osei, has claimed that the EC boss put herself in a conflict of interest situation when she awarded the contract to Aerovote Security Printing (Ghana) Limited to print the pink sheets.

When awarding a contract to a new provider this could have a financial impact on a school if there is a delay in the transfer of the payroll data from the old provider to the new.

The contract replaces one previously announced in 2002, which was subsequently cancelled after allegations that federal government officials had a conflict of interest when they awarded the contract.

Not exact matches

And then also at the end of 2008 is when, where NASA awarded us for the first major operational contract, which was for resupplying cargo to the space station and bringing cargo back.

That may take some time, as Griffen found the commission was biased and did not follow the proper rules when it awarded five contracts to grow marijuana.

Steve Braccini awards commission checks as bonuses to salespeople when customers convert to long - term contracts.

And let's remember that when the original contract was awarded in 1998 to MDA, the company was owned by Orbital Sciences, based in Dulles, Va..

Two years after the Berlin games, however, when the Nazis were building the German embassy in Washington D.C., they awarded the construction contract to Avery Brundage; and Brundage later became a leader of the America First Committee, which contained many sympathizers for Hitler's Germany.

Honestly while I'm saddened to say le fraud will probably award himself another # 9m + contract the day he finally does leave is when maybe we can have our Arsenal back and you and the other Arsene fc supporters can leave us in peace, don't worry we'll just about live, will probably win the league, au revoir Arsene

Not just Gervinho, Sanogo but Denilson also was played every game and awarded a 5 year contract after 4 useless years in the team when all he did was try to bring Fabregas down to his level.

With his best form coming alongside Santi Cazorla, and struggling alongside Arsenal's other central midfielders, Aaron Ramsey, Granit Xhaka, and Mohamed Elneny, the decision to award Coquelin with a new contract last year, when he still had two years to run, was odd, and with the bump in wages, likely caused the depreciation in the fee.

We are resisting the temptation to award contracts, when funds are not available to pay for the certificates as they come up.

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

The latest contract was awarded jointly to A.C. Advisory with another firm in August 2015, and when A.C. was bought out, PFM inherited the contract and also A.C. Advisory's employees, including Rodriguez.

As a teacher of Physics in the university, I was excited when the late President Umaru Yar» Adua awarded a contract of some N40bn for an alternative - energy, wind - powered electricity generation plant to be sited, naturally, at Katsina State.

However, the law contains 17 exemptions, including for people who are «engaged in drafting, advising clients on or rendering opinions» on legislation, procurement contracts or other matters «when such professional services are not otherwise connected with state or municipal legislative or executive action» as well as communications after a procurement contract has been tentatively awarded.

Bafflingly, the department said it ignored the bidders» previous record in providing assessments for employment support allowance when deciding whom to award contracts to.

Concerns were recently raised when the Department of Education wanted to award a contract to expand internet access in city schools to a company that was tied to a kickback scandal.

Sources also said Taylor was recently sidelined by the de Blasio administration when DHS was stripped of its power to award contracts, which was transferred to the Human Resources Administration.

Sulaiman on his part, was accused of bribing a government official when he paid N5 million through a Guarantee Trust Bank account to Alanamu, as a reward for the award of contract to his company, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 9 (1)(a) and punishable under Section 9 (1)(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

Sulaiman, on his part, was accused of bribing a government official when he paid N5m to Alanamu as a reward for the award of contract to his company, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 9 (1)(a) and punishable under Section 9 (1)(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

When reporters asked the governor on May 25 in Syracuse about economic development contract awards to politically connected campaign contributors — a matter that's at the heart of the federal probe — Cuomo said SUNY made those decisions, not him.

In a tense exchange with reporters in September 2015, Cuomo was asked by reporters about potential problems created when big donors are awarded large contracts.

The court heard that Alanamu ensured that the contract for the construction and furnishing of an auditorium in Kwara State Polytechnic, at the cost of N182, 369, 625.00, was awarded to Namylas Nigeria Limited even when it was found that the company was not qualified to execute the contract.

Controversy over the county's contracting procedures system erupted last year when former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) was charged in federal court with influencing the county to award a $ 12 million contract to a company that employed his son.

Things came to a head, when Mr. Felix Addo, sitting in his capacity as the Board Chairman of GNPC issued a fiat asking that the processes leading to the award of contract for exploratory work on the Voltain Basin Project be stopped and reversed.

Account No. 0040437573 from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award, when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) the then NSA (To wit: criminal breach of trust and corruption) and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15 (2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, as amended in 2012 and punishable under section 15 (3) of the same Act.

«That you, Olisa Metuh and Destra Investment Limited on or about the 24th November, 2014 in Abuja converted the sum of N400m paid into the account of Destra Investment Limited with Diamond Bank Plc, Account No: 0040437573 from the account of the office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) the then National Security Adviser (To Wit: criminal breach of trust and corruption) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.

Since last fall, when federal and state corruption charges were brought against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros — who is alleged to have steered lucrative development contracts awarded by two opaque, SUNY - affiliated nonprofits to certain preferred companies — the university's use of nonprofit affiliates has come under increasing scrutiny.

The prosecution also contends that LPCiminelli falsely certified that nobody had influenced the contract award, when the company had retained Howe for exactly that purpose.

It was suggested today that in awarding contracts, it should be based on the volume of works done because sometimes when contracts are awarded and there are stoppages on the way, consultants demand payment on periods when no supervision took place.

Information gathered by the GNA indicated that, the contract was awarded in 2011, and work started immediately, but halted soon after the 2012 polls, when the then District Chief Executive also secured a parliamentary seat.

Nassau Democratic legislators on Wednesday demanded evidence of the «unique expertise» cited by county parks officials when they recommended the award of two no - bid contracts to a marketing company executive linked to County Executive Edward Mangano through sexually suggestive text messages, which both have disavowed.

Nassau contracting has come under scrutiny since 2015 when former state Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) was convicted of federal corruption charges that included influencing the awarding of a county contract to a firm that employed his son, Adam.

Allon, the publisher of Manhattan Media, was bluntest, saying «this country, unfortunately, seems to be going away from things like quotas,» but all six were clear that they're in favor of paying greater attention to race and gender when hiring administration officials and awarding city contracts.

The second benefit allows the County to consider a bidder's status as a Minority or Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) when determining contract awards.

Let's flash back now to 1996, when then - Presiding Officer Bruce Blakeman instructed the county public works department to list officers, principals and shareholders for all firms being awarded public works contracts — particularly those that, like AbTech's — were not awarded to the lowest bidder.

But allegations that he has awarded a contract worth $ 150 million to Margins Group has incurred the displeasure of Mr. Agyepong, who questioned the rationale behind the decision, especially when that deal could have been lower.

How seriously can we take male violence against women and girls, when we collude with rapists and domestic abusers by refusing to mention their crimes, and instead offer them acting roles, sporting contracts, record deals and awards?

He made the comment in his response to former President Mahama's accusation that he (Bawumia) brought President Akufo - Addo embarrassment by awarding a $ 2.5 million contract to local IT firm Vokacom to develop a «419» application called GhanaPostGPS to be used for the national digital addressing system, when that same app was available on Google for free.

In the wake of the latest public corruption scandal, Cuomo said his State of the State message next January will include a reform package that will provide more checks and balances when it comes to awarding state economic development contracts.

Critics are of the view that; the $ 100,000 dollar Ford vehicle gift presented to President Mahama in 2012, when he was Vice President, amounts to conflict of interest, and that he must be impeached since the contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, is also said to have been awarded some lucrative government contracts.

Columbia wound up being the only company that submitted a bid, though a contract was ultimately not awarded when the situation became public.

Mangano has been under a shadow since 2013, when Nassau County awarded a $ 12 million public works contract to AbTech, an Arizona - based environmental company.

And the deal has been raising eyebrows since June when the Daily News» Rachael Monahan reported that the state Department of Education was about to award a $ 27 million no - bid contract to Wireless Generation to develop a system for the state similar to the city's Achievement Reporting and Innovation System or ARIS.

This was the time when the NDC had woefully lost the elections and was trying to acquire retrospective approvals for the contracts already awarded without initial approval.

It is worth noting that this reckless commitment above the budgeted amount was questioned by the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) in December 2016 when COCOBOD needed to seek approval to award additional contracts and the Authority inquired about the availability of budgetary provision to enable it to approve the requested contract awards.

Philip Hammond and Vince Cable have already initiated a review of UK procurement processes in light of EU restrictions so that the domestic supply chain can be protected when big contracts are awarded.

During the campaign, Singas said if elected she would expand a review of the county's contracting system that her office conducted in April, to include towns and cities in an effort to «expose vulnerabilities to corruption» when it comes to municipalities awarding millions of dollars in taxpayer - funded contracts.