Street food has proliferated on city streets, but deployment in the parks has been slowed because applicants must wend their way through the city's cumbersome contract-approval process requiring background checks and verification of the vendors' financial resources.
To streamline cumbersome contracting procedures, the City Council wants the city to update its computer system so vendors can bid for business on the Internet.
Although O'Dowd was able to swing a complex deal to get Hampton off the books, he had to inherit two of the Florida Marlins' cumbersome contracts — belonging to outfielder Preston Wilson and catcher Charles Johnson.
Administration officials say the delays were a result of many factors, including cumbersome contracting regulations imposed by the Congress and a heightened sensitivity over the fact that early in the occupation several contracts were awarded without competitive bidding to the Halliburton Company, once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.
It's those franchises that avoid cumbersome, long-term contracts for fading players in favor of younger talent that are most often able to simultaneously improve results on the field and the bottom line.
A Washington Post article cited U.S. officials who attributed the delays to "cumbersome U.S. government contracting requirements, negotiations over exactly what equipment is needed, and the challenges of creating an infrastructure to deliver an aid package that spans four dozen programs and several U.S. agencies".
Wise men and women predicted the implementation of a US-style system where the title of "solicitor" would be awarded upon completion of the Legal Practice Course (LPC), with the cumbersome two-year training contract done away with altogether.
Clinical trial site contracting has traditionally been perceived of as both slow and cumbersome, particularly when the contracting offices of major universities are involved.
As former officials describe it, some officers regarded her as a stickler for cumbersome rules on things like sharing contracts with small businesses and ensuring open competition for bids.
But in general, companies are investing smaller amounts -an average of $700,000 in the first quarter - and negotiations on contracts sometimes have become more cumbersome and protracted during the last year.
Facilities run under the ministry's strengthening mechanism and NGO contracts under the World Bank and the USAID performed better than contracts held by the European Commission due to cumbersome administrative procedures.
