398 NHS community services all over England - worth over a quarter of a billion pounds – out to open tender.
The island was served by Post Office and then British Telecoms until the mid 1980s, when the Man government put the telecoms licence out to open tender.
Yet the commercial services the tech giant is providing to what are public sector organizations do not appear to have been put out to open tender.
Governments are not usually elected to compromise on such matters.One European aim is to open up America's public-procurement market, which is more protected than Europe's; one reason is that the federal government cannot force states to open tenders to foreign bidders.
The OPCW is opening a tender process for private companies that want to destroy Syrian chemicals.
South Korea's Samsung won the open tender to buy the bank.
The research contract, procured by open tender, covers an eight-week period expiring this Sunday.
But Mr Badawi is also taking serious steps to reduce corruption in the long term, such as awarding government contracts by open tender.
A representative for I.B.R.C. said there had been no open tender for enlisting the Russian bank, but said it had refused several other "unsolicited offers" before choosing A1.
After it threatened to veto a Cayman port project which had been awarded to a Chinese company without an open tender, bidding was restarted.
