Sentence examples for contracting program from inspiring English sources

Congress must defend our Native corporations and preserve our participation in the Small Business Administration 8(a) contracting program.

Representative Don Young of Alaska, for example, praised the stimulus as "a victory for the Alaska Native contracting program and other Alaska small-business owners".

The marquee affirmative action case of the Supreme Court's current term evaporated today when the justices dismissed a constitutional challenge to a federal highway contracting program and conceded that the case had been "improvidently granted".

A16 Affirmative Action Case The Supreme Court dismissed a constitutional challenge from a Colorado subcontractor to a federal highway contracting program, saying -- less than a month after oral arguments -- that a hearing had been "improvidently granted".

Seven years ago, in the court's last major affirmative-action ruling, Justice O'Connor joined with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas to strike down an affirmative action contracting program.

Affirmative action questions are certainly on the minds of the nine high court justices, since on Oct. 31 they will hear for a second time a case challenging limited racial preferences in a federal transportation contracting program.

How can anyone pledge expanded benefits to a contracted program?

That information was not disclosed to the BBC as we believe it should have been when the BBC contracted programming from FBC.

"This is a move to eliminate federal small-business contracting programs".

Already, the Brown administration has endorsed two new race- and gender-neutral contracting programs.

In a recent post about the incidence of fraud in federal contracting programs for small businesses, the Small Business Administration came in for some criticism from the agency's inspector general, Peggy E. Gustafson.