After the broad contract is worked out, the union will negotiate a separate contract to set work rules for the ports around New York Harbor, said Joseph C. Curto, president of the New York Shipping Association, which represents the companies that operate the cargo terminals.
Although most of Live Nation's business is in concerts and ticketing, it already has some interests in recorded music through broad contracts with a handful of superstar acts like Jay-Z and Shakira.
The ballooning budget for outside contracts at the State Department is emblematic of a broader trend, contracting experts say.
In a letter sent Monday (June 2 , 2014, the state purchasing agent for New Mexico, Lawrence O. Maxwell, said by that date (June 18) he will review the merits of a protest filed by the American Institutes for Research over a broad, common-core contract awarded to Pearson...
The Anchorage-based Chenega, for instance, said it had revenue of $233 million a year and a broad array of federal contracts, from construction projects at military bases to information technology services for several agencies On the Army military base contracts, both Chenega-Vance and Alutiiq-Wackenhut have been hiring local residents near the military installations to be the guards.
U.S. PIRG's Nicole Tichon wrote that a Senate appropriations bill governing how U.S. agencies hand out contracts included a broad exemption that would allow "inverted corporations" to benefit from government contracts.
Pointing to a broad warranty clause in its contract, the agency insisted that the fuel supplier clean the tanks and pumps.
Multilateral Transactions In addition, the Act creates a broad exemption for any agreement, contract or transaction in commodities (other than agriculture commodities) so long as they the transactions are between "eligible commercial participants", are entered into on a "principle-to-principle basis" and that take place on a multi-party "electronic facility".
Part of the problem is that many contracts bundle a broad range of goods and services that only big suppliers can provide.
The evaluation of the extension of this strategic space, to be created by healthcare sector managers, and the explanation of how this can be effectively achieved through organisational autonomy without breaking stakeholder trust and social contracts, is a broad avenue for future research in this area.
