Sentence examples for prevailing bidder from inspiring English sources

Bidders need to email in a signed scan of their bid form, between 6am and 6pm, in a blind auction in which bidders don't see rivals' bids, and the government treats the highest submitted price as the prevailing bidder.

State law requires public agencies to award contracts to the lowest bidder, which must pay its workers prevailing wage, although the low bid can be rejected if the company is determined not to be a responsible bidder.

On the night, the painting was contested by three bidders, a buyer on the telephone eventually prevailing at £7.3 million, or about $9.8 million, with fees, an auction high for the artist.

In a joint statement yesterday they said: "The decision came after a careful and thorough evaluation of commercial quotations from engineering, procurement and construction bidders, which showed high capital costs rendering it commercially unfeasible, particularly in the current economic climate prevailing in the energy industry".

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

And, at present, quantity is prevailing.

He added that uncertainty was still prevailing.

So far, the older generation is prevailing.

They are, for the moment, prevailing.