Sentence examples for competed for the contract from inspiring English sources

The government's specifications were challenging, and none of India's information technology giants, like HCL or Wipro, competed for the contract.

It selected Tradeworx in June, but it declined to disclose how many other firms competed for the contract.

Seventy companies competed for the contract, 10 met the eligibility requirements and three made presentations to the Treasury, department officials said.

"The problem is not whether it's possible with the software, which is possible," said Werner Vögeli, the managing director of the German office of SER Solutions, a company in Dulles, Va., that also competed for the contract to reconstruct the Stasi documents.

Other companies, including Pepsi; Veryfine juices; Poland Spring, a unit of Nestlé; and Florida's Natural, an orange juice company that is part of Citrus World, also competed for the contract, but none had the size and scope of the Snapple deal.

It is also competing for the contract to fly cargo to the space station.

He added that his company "could be out of business" if forced to compete for the contract.

Five aircraft manufacturers are competing for the contract, part of a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the Brazilian military.

Boeing and a joint venture that includes Northrop Grumman and the European maker of Airbus planes are competing for the contract.

And Bellingham, Wash., which was also competing for the contract, has claimed that the move violates government construction policies by requiring building in a floodplain.

The University of California, which has managed Los Alamos since its inception 61 years ago, says it has not decided whether to compete for the contract.