Sentence examples for failed bidder from inspiring English sources

Days later, Discovery, a failed bidder for Channel 5, and Virgin Media-owner Liberty Globacquiredred All3Media, the UK indie behind shows including Skins and Midsomer Murders, for £550m.

It is a form of compensation to the failed bidder for its lost acquisition.

Nine people spent between £5 and £30, but the failed bidder who lost the most cash was minga60, who wasted £211.60 by placing 529 bids.

Both visions of London's Olympic destiny are true, if unprovable, depending on which cab driver, barroom pundit, holder of tickets for the 100 meters final or failed bidder for those same prized items is expounding on the issue.

The failed bidders displayed little of the confidence in the future that the winner displayed.

So last month Swoopo began letting failed bidders purchase the item they wanted at a discount equivalent to the amount they spent bidding.

Two failed bidders for the capital's local TV licence – London8 which was headed by ex-Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson, and Channel 6 which was backed by organisations including Trinity Mirror – threatened legal action if Ofcom approved the change.

Now, he says, disgruntled civil servants and failed bidders are conspiring to sabotage the process.Despite the fuss, Pakistan's cash-strapped government is unlikely to renege on the deal.

The DWP was forced to rerun the bidding process for the contract and previously leaked documents detail how the department had to pay compensation to one of the failed bidders.

It is unclear what the impact of that tendering decision will be on the failed NHS bidder, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, which has lost a key source of income.

Analysts who had previously been unable to issue research on RBS and failed rival bidder Barclays because of possible conflicts of interest have now started issuing notes.