Sentence examples for tendering from inspiring English sources

This market may be costing the NHS more than £10bn a year; tendering for one contract can cost £1.5m of public money.

We are not looking at tendering our successful programmes".

Former foreign minister Bob Carr will enter academia after formally tendering his resignation from the Senate on Wednesday.

These included slashing parts of the civil service by up to 90% and encouraging outside agencies such as university departments and think-tanks to compete with it, tendering policy ideas to ministers and bidding for the job of carrying them out.

Second, the Chinese government is pushing "indigenous innovation" by favouring local firms in tendering, procurement and so on.

It has taken Reliance Industries, one of India's largest groups, several weeks to persuade the government to issue visas to 1,800 engineers from Chinese Petroleum whom it wants to hire to lay a gas pipeline.Three foreign port operators, including Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, have recently been banned for security reasons from tendering for big container-port projects.

That makes it more costly to take over the firm by tendering for its newly enlarged pool of equity.At the same time, 60% of American firms have a staggered board, under which different groups of directors are elected in different years.

Contractors from the Soviet Union, tendering to build Ajaokuta, produced a 21-volume feasibility study, but it was never translated from Russian, and probably never read by any Nigerian decision-makers.

Two smaller deals were approved recently and Iraq's government has talked of tendering for more.

DB is still running the trains, pending mediation: tendering for a new operator is a long process.

Among the things he regrets are the weakness, even after the latest government amendments, of race-relations legislation and the lack of rules requiring fair employment practices from private firms tendering for government contracts.Those who work in race relations do not opt for a quiet life.