Thanks to the competitive tender, the customers should finish up getting a far better product.

ECONOMIST: OPINION

Well, a competitive tender should help to minimise these, but why stop at having just one lottery?

ECONOMIST: Clottery

This contract should have been put out to competitive tender under UK and European Union regulations, Severn Trent said.

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It concerns breaking a public procurement law by getting a contract (for supplying clocks with information panels to schools in Aquitaine) without a competitive tender.

ECONOMIST: Advertising

However, lower down on the same page is a proposal to award the next lottery franchise, which starts in 2001, by means of a competitive tender.

ECONOMIST: Clottery

Those which performed poorly would have to take swift action to improve, or be instructed by the government to hold a competitive tender--or even to disband their in-house provision altogether.

ECONOMIST: Local councils

"In what was a very competitive tender process, we are pleased to have secured the combination of rights that we wanted, providing certainty for us and our customers, " said BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch.

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