Sentence examples similar to official contracting process from inspiring English sources

County officials said the contracting process was fair and open to any company.

In 2006, he signed legislation barring bidders from giving money to public officials during the contracting process.

The teachers union Monday called for an official investigation of the original contracting process — the union and Deasy have clashed before and are now in tense contract negotiations.

This week, officials announced they were slowing the contracting process down.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered Mayor Vincent C. Gray to answer questions about the firing of the city's top contracting officer, which is at the heart of a lawsuit alleging that elected officials meddled in a disputed lottery contracting process.

He found that there had been extensive meetings between city officials and Maximus executives prior to the formal contracting process that gave the company an unfair advantage.

A city official said this week that the research contracts were being held up because social service officials thought they could not successfully defend granting the policy contracts under the same expedited contracting process that had limited competition in awarding business to Maximus.

After The New York Times reported on the contracting process last month, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey wrote to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ask senior officials to review the deal.

A high-ranking Iraqi government official who spoke on condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals against him and others in his office, said, "We have no confidence in the Iraqi contracting process".

The city officials asked the state to extend the deal, but the state said that any further work would have to be paid for by the city through its own contracting process, Mr. Monaco said.

Mr. Giuliani, a Republican, defended the contracting process as proper.