Some contracts for services are already going to private companies.
On March 31, 2010, a Manhattan Grand Jury Indictment (originally filed under seal on February 18, 2010) was unsealed in which David Porath, a former owner of a maintenance and insulation company, was charged with engaging in a conspiracy to rig bids for NYPH contracts for re-insulation services, and for filing a false federal tax return in 2005 that substantially understated his income.
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Whoever struck first would get the pick of the workforce and more favorable contracts for materials and services.
To build on this progress, we are now focusing on spending on contracts for management support services, which has grown even faster than for contracting in general.
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The government says Basurto would share in 9% of the value of both contracts for both legitimate services performed on the contract "as well as the illegal services" he provided as a conduit for the corrupt payments.
Etete alleges that Shell wooed the vice president with oil services contracts for a company he reportedly has a stake in, Intels.
And we're in the process of implementing and expanding charitable choice, the principle already established in federal law that faith- based organizations should not suffer discrimination when they compete for contracts to provide social services.
It is common practice for public services to mount in-house bids when offering contracts for public competition.
Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services, noted that of the large services contracts that came up for renewal in 2011, Dell retained 100% of them.
Many fixed-term contracts for mobile phones, broadband and landline services have small print in their terms and conditions allowing prices to be put up, with at least 30 days' notice.
In a 139-page indictment, prosecutors accused Mr. Dimora and others of strong-arming businessmen for cash, trips to Las Vegas and the services of prostitutes in exchange for access to county contracts.
The likely changes will affect not only contracts for mobile phones but also for broadband and landline services.
Look for terms in the contracts that lock you into services.
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And the surge in military activity after the 9-11 attacks had led to rapid increases in outlays for contracted services, with some big contracts awarded on a non-competitive basis.
Thanks to the extensive training programmes as well as its back-office expertise, the company can bid for complicated contracts offering cleaning, catering and laundry services to, say, a hospital.
Other contracts were for sidewalk repairs in the French Quarter and professional services, authorities allege.
Halliburton has been criticised for alleged overcharging for its services as well as winning the reconstruction contracts as a result of contacts with the Iraq administration.
For the government, the concept of encouraging businesses to bid for contracts is not just driven by the desire to provide extra services.
Mr Cheney also used to run Halliburton, an energy company that won lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq and now stands accused of overcharging the Pentagon for some services.
There were highlights for the quarter including stronger online sales, mobile phone, contracts and services sales.
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Later, the government was defeated a second time when peers backed a move requiring contracts made with probation trusts to make "appropriate provision for the delivery of services to female offenders".
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Halliburton - once run by US Vice-President Dick Cheney - has previously denied allegations in the US that it overcharged for services in Iraq and enjoyed preferential access to US government contracts.
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.
Service contracts on their installed devices usually last around three years providing Hospira with a recurring revenue base not only for services, but also for their injectable products.
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It is worth noting that the contracts Moscow insists on honoring by definition violate the U.N. sanctions on goods and services to Iraq for which Moscow has voted.
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This is also stopping private companies bidding for contracts in local authorities that have been forced to outsource some (or all) of their education-support services.
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Culture, media and sport spokesman Baroness Garden of Frognal told him that "suppliers are paid the full commercial rate for their goods and services, and are bound by the 'no marketing rights' clauses in their contracts".
Employer-clients like Boeing, Citigroup, Pfizer and Microsoft sign contracts in which they agree to pay everything from construction costs to ongoing maintenance in return for on-site child care services for their employees' children. (Often, these employer "sponsors" will also subsidize the parents' tuition.) Under certain "cost-plus" contracts, the employer-sponsors will even shoulder some of the care center's risk in exchange for more control of the operations.
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