(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.
Contractor
Definition:
(n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
(2) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(3) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
(4) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(5) The news website is run by journalist Carmen Aristegui, who in 2014 reported that Peña Nieto’s wife was purchasing a house with financing from a government contractor .
(6) The latter are enjoying the first signs of business picking up, according to a survey from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association.
(7) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(8) A statement from the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, late on Tuesday evening capped an extraordinary day of near-revolt on Capitol Hill concerning the secret National Security Agency surveillance programes revealed by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Guardian and Washington Post.
(9) By July, the counter-intelligence contractor had collected a significant amount of material based on Russian sources who he had grown to trust over the years – not just in Moscow, but also among oligarchs living in the west.
(10) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(11) 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.
(12) They learned what green remodelling would mean when their contractor entered their house in a Minnesota GreenStar pilot programme for developing a "checklist of things you could do to make a house green", Lauri said.
(13) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
(14) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
(15) Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, has described the Co-op as an organisation "run by a plastering contractor, a farmer, a telecoms engineer, a computer technician, a nurse, a Methodist minister (Paul Flowers) – and two horticulturalists".
(16) For his part, Brown created Project PM , "a crowd-sourced wiki focused on government intelligence contractors" to delve through the tens of thousands of emails taken from HBGary Federal's servers.
(17) If a contractor was involved in an incident which caused a fuss, they were whisked out of the country by their company.
(18) Problems at the privatised out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall, run by leading government contractor Serco, have led to a costly spike in attendance at A&E, according to board papers before the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) this week.
(19) Previously, management of Australia’s onshore detention centres was contracted to the private contractor Serco, but the company’s contract is due to expire in July.
(20) Then, last summer, a 29-year-old contractor working for America's top-secret National Security Agency gave the project an extraordinary dramatic hook.