Sentence examples for contractors bid from inspiring English sources

Five contractors bid on the alternate schemes.

Twenty-six contractors bid for a total of 30,200.

Ground is due to be broken for the railway in August, as contractors bid for business.

One Afghan official helpfully explained to diplomats the "four stages" at which his colleagues skimmed money from American development projects: "When contractors bid on a project, at application for building permits, during construction, and at the ribbon-cutting ceremony".

When the contractors bid on the job, the plan was to cover the back wall of the kitchen and adjoining courtyard in four-inch-wide strips of South American mahogany.

Instead, contractors bid on the job and the owners selects the ones they want; the manager then schedules workers and supervises them so that they start and finish on time, he said.

The total cost is hard to estimate, said Mr. Kavanagh, until contractors' bids come in.

The cost is currently estimated at $55 million, but not all the contractors' bids are submitted, so the total could change.

Meantime, Scenic Hudson is awaiting contractors' bids for the project and hopes to have construction start this summer, Mr. Sullivan said.

The kickbacks came from contractors bidding for work with the country's state-owned oil and gas giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA, known as Petrobras.

"There's a lot of interest in a quality hotel" in Brooklyn Heights, he said, adding that contractors' bids for the project are due in the next few weeks.