"issue a contract" is correct and widely used in written English.
It means to officially create and provide a contract to someone. Example: The company will issue a contract to the new employee outlining their salary, benefits, and job responsibilities.
WASHINGTON — The federal Department of Agriculture may soon issue a contract to a community organization co-founded by Shirley Sherrod, the former department employee who was asked to resign last year after a conservative activist issued an edited videotape that appeared to show her making racially insensitive remarks.
"If people don't have the money they find it difficult to get the letter of credit, and so we don't issue a contract".
First of all, you know, usually the government, when they ask a company to do a job, they usually issue a contract to them and pay them to do it.
When you create any kind of art, you issue a contract, though you can't decide and dictate its terms, because people who might observe or read your work will do it on their own terms and you have no control over that.
The dealer then issues a contract note detailing the (legally binding) number of shares you have bought.
It also discusses gift-giving at length, and addresses when gifts to an overseas charity — or travel and entertainment provided to foreign officials who may be considering issuing a contract to a business — amount to a bribe.
His government is also remembered for issuing a contract, subsequently cancelled at a heavy cost to the budget, to construct a Dead Sea casino".He's a military, not a political, man," says Jihad Barghouti, a leader of the National Union opposition party, which has used to the protests to call for greater participation in decision-making.
The successful bidder is expected to be issued a contract in 2013 and have the bike hire scheme operating within six months of that contract.
The European Commission has issued a contract worth some 255m euros (£210m; $330m) to a German-UK consortium to provide eight more spacecraft for its Galileo satellite-navigation network.
NASA issued a contract to Aerojet to develop a 445 N (100-lbf) LO2/LCH4 Reaction Control Engine (RCE) aimed at reducing the risk of utilizing a cryogenic reaction control system (RCS) on a space vehicle.
