(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.
Ridder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, rids.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a common assumption that this level of freedom only works for managers or people who work remotely,” says De Ridder.
(2) But now In Vain, one of his most admired scores, which has been described as one of the most important composed in Europe so far in this century, gets its first British performances with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by André de Ridder.
(3) Fidler's dream never quite got airborne before the hurricane blowing through the American newspaper industry killed off the Knight Ridder lab and all its hopes.
(4) Instead of them punching me on the arm and saying: "Come on, Ridders, it's your round."
(5) Jordan Sibley (@jordansibley) Can confirm that Steve De Ridder to Bolton on loan for a month is our last piece of business for this window.
(6) "Everyone is talking about the sharing economy", said co-founder Christian Ridder.
(7) The Knight Ridder team worked on the assumption that it would – but only if you switched off the printing presses.
(8) "The Knight Ridder lab is working on the software for the flatpad… You can ask the current versions to read stories or information to you (handy if driving).
(9) De Ridder gives the example of online shoe shop Zappos.com , which abolished scripts from its call centre a year ago and gave customer service staff the freedom to deal with complaints however they saw fit.
(10) A previous study (Neumann, E., M. Schaefer-Ridder, Y. Wang, and P. H. Hofschneider.
(11) More or less everything the Knight Ridder dreamers had described was contained in this thing in my hands.
(12) But the real excitement lay in Aspen, where the Knight Ridder newspaper chain had set up a "laboratory" to study the future of news.
(13) Those people expect much more entrepreneurial environments – more freedom to operate, less control,” says Philippe De Ridder, co-founder of the Board of Innovation , a consultancy firm whose mission statement is to “help corporates innovate like start-ups”.