Sentence examples for computer contract from inspiring English sources

The novel is based on a true story in which all but one person in a company's fifteen-member sales department were fired when a rival team won a computer contract.

The state reached an agreement to cancel a computer contract that critics said would cost the state $41 million instead of yielding more than $100 million in promised savings.

It will inherit diverse and competing computer systems - some, like the tax credit system, with an appalling record of inefficiency and breakdown - along with a new 10-year Inland Revenue computer contract, Aspire, managed by strategic partner Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, which the O'Donnell review said had "the capacity to support future business change".

All told, Mr. Kontogiannis and Mr. Shain received more than $2.2 million of the $6.3 million in computer contract money paid out by the Board of Education, law enforcement officials said, while Ms. Miller and her husband received money and property valued at $925,000.

The indictment also probes into state computer contracts and into Phil Gramm's 1995-96 presidential campaign.

Frank Field, the MP for Birkenhead, has written to Sir John calling for an inquiry into the control exercised by an American computer company, EDS, on government computer contracts.

The alleged scheme worked similarly in each of the first two years that computer contracts came up for bid, but in the third year a legitimate bidder emerged, law enforcement officials said.

Yesterday, Ms. Miller, who has undergone two serious back surgeries in recent months and who now uses a wheelchair, was wheeled into a Queens courtroom to face charges that she and five others, including her husband, William Harris, received kickbacks from and conspired in a bid-rigging scheme involving $6.3 million in computer contracts.

Some computer contracts had not been rewritten in more than 10 years, he said, and only half of the county's employees had access to email, and that was under five different email systems that could not communicate with one another.

Investigators are looking into whether a former Queens school superintendent received kickbacks of $100,000 and favorable financing terms on real estate investments in exchange for steering more than $6 million in school computer contracts to a Long Island technology company, law enforcement officials said yesterday.

That political class is harshly but perceptively characterised here: as both increasingly, offputtingly professional in style – the airless, Westminster-only careers, the over-complex policy-wonk language – and increasingly amateurish in practice – ever more transient ministers and civil servants unable to cope with longterm projects such as government computer contracts.