This is because Leeds' e-tendering system, Council Tenders, is designed and hosted on the other side of the world by the government of Western Australia.
Cabbage Hill Farm, in Mount Kisco, which thrives on a recirculated aquaponic system, offered tender Bibb lettuce ($3 a head) and beautiful leeks ($1 each).
According to both Lexchin and Attaran, Canada would do well to look to New Zealand's system of tendering — in which the country announces the need for a certain drug, lets suppliers compete and chooses the lowest bidder — as an example for how drug price regulations can be improved.
Gujarat's anti-graft commissioner, Manjula Subramaniam, praises a tendering system where companies bid online for public contracts, for example for road-building.
Currently, many provinces have a 'two-envelope selective tender system' in place [ 4], in which the tenderers place the drug quality information, as well as the price, into two separate sealed envelopes.
Where we are unique is in leaving most of our health system to the tender mercies of profit-maximizing investor-owned businesses.
The report criticised transport department officials for failing to put the work to build the new system out to tender, and said they had tried to implement their cost-saving plan too fast, leaving little time for testing.
Under Portugal's political system, should Mr. Sócrates tender his resignation, it would then be for Portugal's recently re-elected President, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, to decide when to call a general election.
"Learning Curve" is both a scathing indictment of a defective system and a tender study of the awesome awakening that makes being a teen-ager so frightening and fun.
The system won a tender in April to provide the technology for the World Cup in Brazil providing it passed evaluation at the Confederations Cup.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank stunned investors by pumping $130 billion into the banking system via a tender offer taken up by 49 banks, making the Fed's action later on look modest by comparison.
