Sentence examples for contractor cost from inspiring English sources
Buyers generally hire an independent consultant certified by the Federal Housing Administration to review contractor cost estimates and architectural plans for things like whether the work will bring the property up to minimum standards while not going overboard on improvements.
(Mr Norman quotes an example from his own PFI hospital in Hereford, where he says the replacement of a television aerial by an approved contractor cost more than £900. In the days of the old NHS trust they'd have found a local handyman for £50!).
Like the federal Consumer Price Index, the PIOC surveys a basket of goods -- among them taxes, labor, fuel and contractor costs -- that estimate the cost of running a rent-stabilized apartment.
He was presiding last week over a case involving a former CIA deep cover operative who alleges that unknown agency personnel bad-mouthed him to a defense contractor, costing him a job.
Talks have been ongoing about liability for extra contractor costs over the original price tag.
Perhaps subliminal messaging on contractor cost-effectiveness.
As it turned out, the private contractors cost more in 33 of those 35 jobs.
Yet, this policy backfired, as private contractors cost nearly as much and wasted millions – by one estimate, losing $12m a day between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A study by the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit Washington group, found that in 33 of 35 occupations, using contractors cost the federal government billions of dollars more than using government employees.
She criticized the rapid privatization of government services under the Bush administration, saying that some contractors cost more than comparable federal workers while being less accountable and less competent.
His own biggest extravagance, perhaps, was to insist on the deadline, since the work-acceleration agreements with the contractors cost the M.T.A. sixty-six million dollars (though this might have saved them money in the long run).
