State companies award contracts to nominally private companies owned by friends and relatives of their managers.
It wants to award contracts to companies to collect waste from paying customers.
Incumbent parties can give patronage jobs, award contracts and make use of government employee networks.
The Army plans to award contracts in regional clusters to achieve scale and scope.
Now they demand shares in firms to which they are about to award contracts, Indian bosses complain.
Western companies should not award contracts that are so big suppliers cannot realistically fill them without subcontracting.
In particular, the decision to award contracts to existing (and mostly public sector) operators appears to have acted as a brake on developing these performance elements.
Instead of insisting on fiscal rectitude, China has more often demanded that borrowers award contracts to Chinese construction companies.
Obama announced this year that the federal government would award contracts to firms with more generous pay and benefit packages.
But Mr. Cuomo would not promise that a Cuomo administration would not award contracts to campaign contributors.
But the new agency could open up that process and award contracts through bidding practices open to global companies.
