Their competitors for the contract hardly wrote them off.
This cycle, of American ingenuity and commitment being shipped offshore, is reflected again and again in the book: in the anecdotes of architects, in the possible competitors for the contract, in the slow unwrapping of Clay's past.
This eliminates another motivation raising competitors' costs —for contracting in an oligopoly.
The information had been provided by an engineer formerly to talk to employed by a competitor for the contracts, who had moved to the Department of Defense.
The unionized suburban companies, Mr. White said, fear that the price of family health coverage, about $1.78 an hour, might push costs so high that nonunion competitors will underbid them for contracts.
More worrying, the House Appropriations Committee suggested that NASA should cut the number of competitors for its crew-delivery contracts from four (SpaceX, Boeing, Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada) to one.For its part, NASA seems confident.
Analysts said the medical device industry had been consolidating because smaller companies were often outgunned by big competitors that could bid more aggressively for contracts with huge hospital purchasing groups and marshal large sales forces to approach tens of thousands of doctors.
Northrop Grumman of Los Angeles, General Dynamics' primary competitor for Navy shipbuilding contracts, has offered $2.1 billion for Newport News.
American oilmen, frustrated as their competitors grab contracts with Iran, are hungry for an easing of the regulations.
Megacities are magnets for contracts.
