But the GSMA cited Colombia as an example of the way USFs should be structured, with a reduction in levies and a transparent public bidding process.
In New Jersey, bids start at 18% interest with the expectation that the public, competitive bidding will reduce that rate.
Political motives to attract more public support for bidding on events.
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Pressure is mounting: last month opposition politicians passed a law barring party-related businesses from bidding on public contracts.
Chile and Mexico have gone furthest in introducing truly competitive bidding for public-works contracts, a big source of corruption.
As leader of Italy's Socialists from 1976 to 1993, Craxi was among the orchestrators of a system in which the main parties, and their officials, fed off bribes extorted from companies bidding for public contracts.
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But, as attention has focused on accounting standards, concerns have been raised in particular about how support services firms treat the large costs run up bidding for public private partnership contracts, such as hospital construction projects.
The FCC's blind bidding process means the public won't know the auction's winner or winners until February or March.
Councillor Mark Howell said it would be "completely wrong and a terrible use of public money" to enter a bidding war.
In sum, Google made a big mistake in allowing the Google-Mozilla agreement to expire and putting the business relationship out for competitive bidding, because it now begs for public and antitrust scrutiny.
Dr Jacky Davis, from the campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, says private firms have a big advantage in bidding for business.
In contravention of a public, competitive auction, Crusader conspired to rig the tax lien bidding by allocating certain liens to members of the conspiracy, thus ensuring that the prevailing bidder took the lien with an artificially higher interest rate than would likely have been derived from open competitive bidding.
Medicare reform was a dominant issue in the 2012 campaign, as Democrats sought, unsuccessfully, to tar Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for their promising and thoughtful plan to transition future retirees into a competitive bidding system in which seniors could choose among a range of public and private insurance plans.
In a complaint that was filed under seal and placed, in heavily redacted form, in the public record this week, plaintiff lawyers accuse the firms of rewarding competitors who stepped out of the bidding with a piece of the deals after they are won.
Her key initiative was to insist on the weekly "Dragon's Den" bidding sessions, when MPs seeking a debate on a particular subject have to argue their case in public session.
In a time when social media companies are planning initial public offerings, investors will likely be eager to jump on the bandwagon and get a piece of the pie, bidding the prices up.
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