Sentence examples for sole source contract from inspiring English sources

Under the deal that Mr. McCain helped scuttle, the Air Force would have leased tankers from Boeing under a sole source contract.

And we were banned from hiring Iraqis on our own because we were told that one American contractor had a "sole source contract" with the Pentagon.

Isn't it ironic that an administration that preaches the virtues of competition and the free-enterprise system would allow the Pentagon to sign a "sole source contract" with a provider of translators, thereby eliminating a competitor?

In July 2005, the Bush administration awarded a "sole source contract" to 3M, to analyze whether it was feasible for Medicare to use a payment system modeled on the 3M product.

While no formal agreement on the swap of development parcels has been reached with that developer, the Mills Corporation of Arlington, Va., Mr. Stern said that he found this "sole source contract" for a valuable development tract to be "the most egregious part" of the development plan.

This was a sole source contract initiated on Feb. 1, 2007.

Both had awarded "sole source" contracts to Nellcor, which meant that hospitals were given strong financial incentives to buy Nellcor oximeters.

With the Pentagon alone awarding a staggering $140 billion in sole source contracts without any competition in 2010 (up from $50 billion in 2001), we are talking, in former Senator Everett Dirksen's famous formulation, "real money".

The new system will rely on a "self-releasing boot," developed by the company PayLock, which secured a sole-source contract with the city last year.

Richard F. Averill, research director of 3M Health Information Systems, said the sole-source contract was justified and denied that his company had a conflict of interest.

Even before the bill passed, the Army awarded another $19 million sole-source contract for air filters to a company cited in our story, a unit of Westar Aerospace & Defense Group, which also advises the Army on purchases.