Preposterous.

B. Award of contracts without bidding

The purchase order was placed with a foreign company without any competitive bidding.

In the past few years mobile reverse auction have evolved.

CAPULET Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender

By law you've got to bid, and so on and so forth.

In March 2008, Turkey opened the bidding for the construction of the plant.

Through a competitive bidding process, local contractors will be selected to carry out the necessary work over the two year period.

Over that time the contracts have been renewed at periodic intervals without competitive tendering.

The Council of Members shall designate the independent auditor by holding a tender in which at least three relevant specialized firms shall take part.

Existing contracts are being renewed only after competitive bidding, but the Committee on Contracts should scrutinize any exceptional proposals for awarding or extending contracts without competitive bidding.

In 1990 this requirement was revoked and the funding was divided on the basis of the public tender.

By law you've got to bid, and so on and so forth.

A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, To answer, 'I'll not wed, I cannot love,

During a Nigerian mini bid round in 2006, ONGC Mittal was offered the right of first refusal for three blocks.

61. Contracts were awarded without bidding only in rare instances, especially in times of pressure.

In 1993, ITC undertook a competitive tendering exercise for this contract, and has since selected a new contractor.

With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair. Now Romeo is belov'd, and loves again,

The fourth borehole drilling survey was launched by means of a contract signed in November 2004 in the framework of an open invitation for international tenders.

ITC decided to renew the catering contract for five years based on the results of a 1991 competitive tendering exercise undertaken for the UNOG restaurant facilities.

In the future, advance planning will ensure that instances in which contracts are awarded without bids are reduced to a strict minimum.

18. In the United Nations, on a case by case basis, procurement actions exempted from competitive bidding were justified fully in compliance with the terms of the Financial Rules and Regulations.

The weapons producer Krauss Maffei Wegmann was contracted to deliver 270 of its Leopard 2 A7 tanks.

As the rainfall decreased, many of the cities further away from Lake Titicaca began to tender less foodstuffs to the elites.

(n) bis Where the tendering proceedings are to be conducted by way of an electronic reverse auction pursuant to article 47 bis, a statement to such effect, and

23. There is a possible case for drawing in civilian contractors by international tender where conditions on the ground permit and where this would be financially beneficial.

We have all heard about the Egyptian Ministry of Interior's tender to purchase programs and applications in order to monitor social networking websites and blogs and to survey public opinion.

It was launched without the approval of the Cabinet or the Civil Aviation Authority and its three aircraft were leased without a tender process.

See, e.g., Decree No. 3.697 of 21 December 2000, of Brazil, that created electronic procurement auction .

As a result, UNAMI has tendered the design requirements for the refurbishment of the buildings in the location of the Palace Island, which meets security requirements.

There are 40 platforms and vessels around the world that could have submitted a tender for the drilling of the deep water (1,600 meter) oil exploration well off Cuban coasts.

In 2004, the exercise was based on a hypothetical call for tenders issued by ESA on the topic of digital divide.

The tender had nothing in it that related to us, nothing specific about sunlight readable, mesh network, low power, but just a vanilla laptop proposal.

This process will be implemented annually until 2013. The Ministry of Defence has announced a tender with a view to selecting a company to carry out the liquidation.

(d) bis Whether the tendering proceedings shall be conducted by way of an electronic reverse auction pursuant to article 47 bis and ter a

(1) The electronic reverse auction is to be conducted as a tendering procedure, and accordingly the provisions of chapter III of the Model Law apply unless they are inconsistent with the nature of an auction procedure.

Those are agencies that provide a buyer the services of an auction manager to set up and administer the auction, and advice on purchasing method to utilize.

The Working Group may wish to include in the list of information to be maintained pursuant to Article 11 (record of procurement proceedings) a reference to the fact that the procurement was conducted by way of electronic reverse auction, as follows

14. Expresses its deep concern that the contract for services to the Assistance Mission has been renewed without international competitive bidding as outlined in paragraphs 40 to 44 of the report of the Advisory Committee 2

For example, in the United Kingdom, Agnes Reeves Taylor, the former wife of Charles Taylor, removed assets and placed them in the names of close relatives just prior to the adoption of Security Council resolution 1532 (2004). In both November 2003 and February 2004, she transferred over 100,000 to an account at Wachovia bank in the United States.

Proposed revisions to article 25 of the Model Law, to require the invitation to tender and invitation to prequalify to state whether an electronic reverse auction will be held

(b) For major procurement above a prescribed monetary threshold, say 500,000, contracting should be by open tender rather than by limited invitation

(2) When the procuring entity engages in restricted tendering, it shall cause a notice of the restricted tendering proceeding to be published in ... (each enacting State specifies the official gazette or other official publication in which the notice is to be published).

Nor does it analyse provisions of international instruments, like the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), that do not specifically address the subject but contain provisions that may be construed as implying the publication of such information.

Existing contracts with that vendor were extended without tendering for amounts ranging from 165,000 to 3.5 million, some of which were greater than the original contract price.