Sentence examples for contracting rule from inspiring English sources

Even so, Ms. Snowe this week issued a statement welcoming his designation but urging him to "rectify the administration's recent failure to implement a meaningful women's contracting rule".

Lawmakers were further irked because the Small Business Administration sent a final draft of the women's contracting rule to the Office of Budget and Management.

Specifically, an obscure contracting rule known as Federal Acquisition Regulation 9.406-2 prevents an acquisition official for banning a company from being awarded a contract unless the company has been formally "debarred" from eligibility - something that has never happened in Blackwater's case.

The committee should look into possible waste and whether contracting rules were followed.

Mr. Baroody said new contracting rules give far too much discretion to contracting officers.

A scathing report by the Government Accountability Office accused the Air Force of breaking its own contracting rules.

In the view of Elliott Rosenfeld, of the league, that in turn undermines the case for stronger enforcement of contracting rules.

The Treasury said it would hire several outside firms to handle the purchases, and would dispense with federal contracting rules.

The deal was voided after critics assailed it as an end-run around ethics and contracting rules.

None of these ideas is a magic bullet, but all have more to recommend them than a sudden drastic shift in federal contracting rules.

In the current case, the plaintiff sued his former employer, Schindler Elevator, charging that it failed to comply with federal contracting rules on employing veterans.