(1) The agency is a lead bidder for eight regional contracts under the government's Flexible New Deal (FND) programme, starting next autumn, which will pay contractors according to successful job placements.
(2) The other two shortlisted bidders, Abellio and Keolis, backed by the Dutch and French state railways, bid far less even than Virgin.
(3) Bidders have spent an estimated £1m each on their bids but, according to one industry source, the process has stalled and franchise owners are being forced to retain expensive but idle bidding teams.
(4) And, crucially, the bidders believe BBC3 must continue to exist as a TV channel – not just a website – if that pioneering history is to continue.
(5) Powell said the atmosphere in the saleroom went from excitement, to disappointment – as various bidders dropped out – to disbelief at the rocketing price.
(6) July 2012: Deadline is extended for proposals to be submitted by bidders – four are ultimately shortlisted, although West Ham is the only real viable option.
(7) Administration of estradiol in Bidder's organectomized toad showed more or less similar result as the control animal.
(8) The outside spending has even become its own campaign issue, as Grimes sought to link McConnell with the notorious Koch brothers (a cause McConnell only helped with his June speech to a Koch brothers funded group in which he promised to not take up legislation on the minimum wage, equal pay or student loan reform) and accuse him of “selling out to the highest bidder”.
(9) The East End club remain confident that any remaining issues can be ironed out and on Wednesday took another step towards relocating to Stratford after they were named the highest-ranked bidder for the £429m venue.
(10) With multiple financial interests in HMV's future, therefore, Universal is likely to emerge as a potential bidder for at least parts of the high street business.
(11) I was still the top bidder, and I was hoping it would hold out.
(12) The vendor had invited sealed bids, to delivered on the day the result was announced, and the winning bidder had offered more than the asking price.
(13) Such is the case with the latest stage of the Ministry of Justice's consultation paper on legal aid reform: in the face of serious and widespread opposition from lawyers and the public, the proposed tendering of legal aid contracts to the lowest bidder has been scrapped, yet much of the equally unpopular plan remains.
(14) In August, after several delays, the commission named the People's Lottery as preferred bidder and excluded Camelot from the running.
(15) The Russian business daily Vedomosti in 2009 analysed scores of tenders for Olympic contracts and discovered that the majority of bids were very close to the maximum the state said it would pay, and in many cases bidders were barred from running, leaving one company to claim the contract.
(16) The report reveals that the BBC paid out an extra £31m to accept the £210m Land Securities tender over the nearest shortlisted bidder, then spent another £60.9m fitting out the building with state-of-the-art technology and furniture.
(17) That is especially so if the bidder is from the US, where the legal system makes hostile takeovers from non-American companies difficult.
(18) The virtuous part is expected to be sold to a private bidder after the general election.
(19) I'm David Dimbleby and with me is Bob McKenzie and today we're inviting you to vote on whether Manchester United should make Wayne Rooney stay or turf him out the door in the company of the highest bidder.
(20) Also under the spotlight is the vote for the 1998 World Cup in France, over alleged bribes paid by one of the losing bidders, Morocco, and the organisation of the 2014 World Cup.
Binder
Definition:
(n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
(n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.
(2) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
(3) Epithelial components in both pulmonary blastomas and hamartomas showed a reactivity for R-binder, suggesting that these tumors contained components composed of cells with bronchiolar cell differentiation.
(4) We have studied the time-resolved and the steady-state fluorescence of the DNA groove binders 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and Hoechst 33258 with the double stranded DNAs poly(dA-dU) and poly(dI-dC) and their halogenated analogs, poly(dA-I5dU) and poly(dI-Br5dC).
(5) Extracts from solubilized kidneys were shown to contain a folate binder with the same relative affinities for folates and methotrexate as the in vivo system.
(6) In the present study the vitamin B12 complexes of the two vitamin B12 binders were separated at a pH of 1.8 using the cationic exchange chromatograph Mono S attached to the fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system.
(7) (5) There was renal release or production of TC II (6) Some TC II but more of a larger molecular size binder came from the liver.
(8) "They brought us whole binders full of women," he relates after he complained that there weren't enough qualified women candidates.
(9) Association and binder dilution curves were prepared in order to optimize the reagent concentrations and the analytical conditions.
(10) Health hazards from environmental pollution may be irritation of the mucous membranes when the indoor environment is painted and fish mortality due to slowly degradable polyacrylate binders.
(11) These findings support the view that abdominal binders assist breathing in tetraplegic patients who are seated or raised to near vertical positions.
(12) The assay incorporated an antibody against purified human salivary R binder as the binding reagent.
(13) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
(14) Transcobalamin I (TCI) is a member of the R binder family of vitamin B12 binding proteins.
(15) Evaluation of the binding parameters of the high affinity binders in both AP and PP gave similar association constants.
(16) Cholestyramine was found to be the most effective bile acid binder, with more than 90% of bile acids adsorbed at all of the pH values studied.
(17) In competition experiments with T cell hybridomas, the poor binder I-Ed molecule required 10- to 15-fold higher competitor concentrations than the good binder I-Ak molecule to achieve 50% inhibition of antigen presentation.
(18) High definition microfocal radiography permitted the quantitative assessment of the radiographic features of renal osteodystrophy in the phalanges of 11 children in stable chronic renal failure, treated with phosphate binders for 1 year.
(19) Use of magnesium hydroxide-containing antacids as phosphate binders in patients with CRF was largely discontinued 2 decades ago after reports described increases in serum magnesium concentrations to toxic levels.
(20) At pH 7.4 the relative affinities are quite disparate, with folic acid showing the greater affinity for milk binder.