Sentences with phrase «work in the government contracts»

In addition to his work in the government contracts area, Mr. Haas regularly provides business advice to clients in a wide range of industries including real estate, manufacturing, mining, technology and an array of service businesses.

Not exact matches

Working from this nondescript campus and seven others around the country, Alutiiq raked in $ 533 million in revenue in 2006, virtually all of it from the government, won under contracts set aside for small disadvantaged businesses.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

Programmed managing director Chris Sutherland says the group's annual results show the benefits of its diversification, with its government and property contracts largely offsetting a decline in resource sector work.

The state government has awarded an $ 11.5 million contract to Universal Constructions for development of the replacement Doubleview Primary School, while other local builders have shared in $ 26.7 million worth of work.

Individual or individuals making the application have a record of successful performance of contract work in the past, provided that those contracts (which may be from either government or private clients) are in the primary industry category in which the applicant is seeking program certification.

Five local companies will share in a combined $ 92 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government, with the majority of the work comprising school construction jobs.

Lastly, Mr Prentice can promise to ask Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson to terminate Mr Berger's contract because it violates Alberta's conflict of interest rules that require a one year cooling off period before a former government minister can work for the public service in an area in which he's had significant dealings.

There isn't anyone who has been in this province for any length of time who hasn't figured out how things worked in PC Alberta - from advancement in the workplace to receiving grants and contracts with the government, or board positions, and so on.

If you need a government contract, sanctioned by the government and granted by the government to make sure you are not discriminated against — for rights to make decisions in a hospital or to pass on your SS benefits or for other human rights — work towards that kind of thing.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

In July 1964 a House Armed Services subcommittee heard witnesses regarding the practice of industrial firms, working on cost - plus contracts, to charge off recreation and entertainment expenses to the Government.

In its submission to the government's open public services white paper, the union identifies major problems with Mr Duncan Smith's work programme, where 33 of the 34 contracts went to large private sector providers.

Sarkozy, in his high - charged first hundred days, introduced a fiscal package implemented by the Fillon Government, which introduced a more flexible work contract, making it easier to hire and fire.

He said the government's youth contract scheme, which provides apprenticeships and work experience for unemployed young people, will cost taxpayers an extra # 457m in 2014 - 15.

In 2010, the developer arranged for the younger Mr. Skelos to rake in a one - time $ 20,000 payment for title work he did not perform, following by continuing payments of $ 4,000 a month from the environmental technology company that was seeking government contractIn 2010, the developer arranged for the younger Mr. Skelos to rake in a one - time $ 20,000 payment for title work he did not perform, following by continuing payments of $ 4,000 a month from the environmental technology company that was seeking government contractin a one - time $ 20,000 payment for title work he did not perform, following by continuing payments of $ 4,000 a month from the environmental technology company that was seeking government contracts.

Since day one this Government has been working to reform contract management and improve commercial expertise in Whitehall.

Nearly three - in - four government employees at the state and local level work under a collectively bargained contract — almost double the national average of 39 percent.

The court might let government employees completely opt out of paying union fees, even if the union works on their behalf in areas like contract negotiations.

Earlier in the week — shortly before The New York Times reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office was presenting evidence to a grand jury about Skelos» possible involvement in the contract deal — Flanagan said, «At this juncture in my career I obviously have significant experience, very well versed in a lot of aspects of state government, and I certainly am going to keep doing what I'm doing and use whatever skills I have to enhance the work that I do.

In that case, the court found that governments could not force workers to pay for «ideological» political work by unions that is not related to things like contract negotiations.

Lewis has also complained that City Hall has been slow in awarding contracts to minority - owned firms to work on government projects or provide services.

*** So, to sum up, I hope I've given you a sense of our approach: we started with the Work Programme; we introduced the Youth Contract; now we're homing in on youth unemployment hot spots; action that is targeted; urgent; always looking to do more; Government working hardest for the places that have been hardest hit.

Whitefish Energy Holdings has halted work to help restore power in Puerto Rico because the U.S. territory's government has not paid crews as part of a contract that led to accusations of overcharging and incompetence and contributed to the resignation of the power company director.

Mr. Molo, in rejecting the government's charge that his client's actions were illegal, said Mr. Silver's referrals of patients with asbestos claims to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg was a means of getting «economic justice» for them, many of whom were blue - collar workers who had «unfairly and unjustly» contracted mesothelioma, a particularly deadly form of cancer, through work with asbestos.

In fact, Rattner was also being advised by his lawyers to make himself a lower - profile target for federal and state investigators who were probing whether he had paid off a middleman to win a lucrative contract from New York's pension system while he worked on Wall Street, a government source said Wednesday.

Federal Government has set up a team to work on a template that will see a reduction on contract cost; the move is to bring them at par with what obtains in the world and other African countries.

The legislation would allow local governments to select «local» companies for public works contract in certain scenarios where a non-local company has a lower bid.

Mr. Hammond said, about 12 percent of work has been done eight months after the contract was awarded by the NDC government in 2016, adding that, 20 km of the road has been completed and opened to the public.

The Senate's Task Force on Government Efficiency, chaired by Bronx pol Jeff Klein, released a report today saying that the state's Department of Transportation wasted $ 210 million in funds, much of it on outsourced work contracts that could have been cheaper if granted to state employees.

ALBANY — Public employees are working without contracts in cities and counties across New York State, as labor negotiations stall because local governments say they can not afford to raise wages.

«PB's greatest successes lie in a reweaving of our social fabric, a renewed belief that government can work for us and not just elites, and a rewriting of the social contract between government and citizen, and among neighbors.»

He said the government has fulfilled a part of the social contract it had with the people just 16 months in office, adding they are working assiduously to ensure the fulfilment of the rest to improve the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.

This would come in three parts: a contract with the unemployed («we will work with you but you must work with us»); a contract with the most vulnerable («this government and this party doesn't regard caring for the needy as a burden»); and a contract with the taxpayer (money will only go to those who deserve it, and there will be «no more spend and waste»).

A federal judge in 2010 sentenced him to 18 months in prison for evading taxes on payments he got from a developer working on government contracts in his legislative district who also was at the center of the New Cassel corruption case the Nassau district attorney's office prosecuted.

The government finally launched its # 1billion Youth Contract earlier this month in an attempt to help young unemployed people back into work.

A statement by the Special Adviser on Communications to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Hakeem Bello, on Thursday said N119, 369,520,000 liability had resulted from a judgment entered against the government over a litigation from a metering contract awarded by a previous administration in 2003.

Despite her role as Silver's top aide and her husband's job as head of a charity organization that has received millions of dollars in government contracts from the city and state — including appropriations from Silver — friends insist the couple do not discuss work with each other.

In an effort to reduce job instability across the public sector, in March 2012 the French government introduced the Loi Sauvadet, which was supposed to limit how long people can work on short - term contracts by moving them after 6 years to more stable, open - ended contractIn an effort to reduce job instability across the public sector, in March 2012 the French government introduced the Loi Sauvadet, which was supposed to limit how long people can work on short - term contracts by moving them after 6 years to more stable, open - ended contractin March 2012 the French government introduced the Loi Sauvadet, which was supposed to limit how long people can work on short - term contracts by moving them after 6 years to more stable, open - ended contracts.

In its hunger for patents and profits, the Tunisian government is giving out four - year contracts to labs whose work has industrial applications.

In an email dated Jan. 4 and sent to program developers, the contractor hired by SAMHSA to work on the registry said, «It is with great regret that we write to inform you that on December 28, 2017, we received notification from SAMHSA that the NREPP contract is being terminated for the convenience of the government.

Scientists working for the Canadian government have successfully negotiated a clause in their new contract that guarantees their right to speak to the public and the media about science and their research, without needing approval from their managers.

PROPOSALS to contract out the work of the Patent Office in London will jeopardise Britain's patent business, a leading firm of patent agents has warned the government.

According to the education minister when the bill was passed, Maria Chiara Carrozza, building works are hampered by excess bureaucracy in awarding contracts and a lack of clarity on which layer of government is responsible.

This will require pursuing all development and certification work beyond the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) base period through Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)-- based contracts; making strategic decisions about the number of industry partners to retain in the certification phase; and finding ways to incentivize greater private investment by industry partners in order to reduce the government's financial obligations for the program.

I am in defense contracting / security / have been in those fields in government agencies before, but I don't work on the Hill.

The French system works like this: Private schools sign a contract with the government in which they agree to accept children of any racial or religious background, to follow the national curriculum and hire state approved teachers.

Self - motivated and enthusiastic about our work in the careers field, she inputs to government policy and translates that policy to our operational contracts, providing innovative solutions to our clients issues while not losing sight of the customer experience.

When the lawyer for the state of Illinois tried to argue that the state had an interest in working with «a stable, responsible, independent counterpart that's well - resourced enough that it can partner in the process of not only contract negotiation,» Justice Kennedy broke in and devastatingly finished his thought by saying, «It can partner with you in advocating for a greater size workforce, against privatization, against merit promotion, for teacher tenure, for higher wages, for massive government, for increasing bonded indebtedness, for increasing taxes.»

Concerns of potential conflicts of interests have been raised about individuals contracted to work as advisers in the government's academies and free schools programme in England.