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The development project completed, the Aerojet team sent the project back to Picatinny, where it was bid out to various component suppliers.
During the early 1960s the company bid on the United States Air Force's TFX ( Tactical Fighter, eXperimental ) project for a new low-level " penetrator ".
In 1972, GD bid on the USAF's Lightweight Fighter ( LWF ) project.
The Market Towns Initiative finished in 2004 but the Partnership successfully bid for funding to take part in the Cittaslow pilot project and to sustain work on traffic management and heritage.
By the time the bid was ready for submission, the HLF were under pressure for the funds they had, and asked British Waterways, who were managing the application, to split the bid and the project into smaller phases.
This partnership formed for the sole purpose of the Hoover Dam project, and their combined strength virtually guaranteed that they would submit the most competitive bid.
Clarington was a candidate in the race to host ITER in 2001, but the Canadian bid to host the project was withdrawn two years later.
The project was a TfL-funded Games-enabling project in its investment programme ( and not a project specifically funded as a result of the success of the London 2012 Games bid ).
Cost overruns with government projects have occurred when the contractor was able to identify change orders or changes in the project resulting in large increases in cost, which are not subject to competition by other firm as they have already been eliminated from consideration after the initial bid.
This is in contrast to a design-bid-build contract, where the project is completely designed by the owner, then bid on, then completed.
* DARPA BAA 03-15 official project description and bid solicitation
Two firms bid on the project, with the Canadian Highways International Corporation being selected as the operator of the highway.
Introduction of the new line was delayed, because the company that won the bid to operate the line decided not to undertake the project after all.
Crowe was the true project manager of the undertaking ; he drafted the bid, costed the projected, won the project selection process, and hired each of the men who were employed during the course of the project.
It also hopes to make a bid for a stake in a proposed giant bridge project, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, linking Hong Kong to Macau and mainland China.
The project was part of Newcastle and Gateshead's unsuccessful joint bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.
CPRE joined the 10: 10 project in 2010 in a bid to reduce their carbon footprint.
On November 30, 1955 three companies were given one week to bid on the project: Douglas, Lockheed, and North American Aviation.

bid and had
He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.
Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.
Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many.
For a time it was considered the front runner in the bid, and numerous reports ( all false ), surfaced during the 1994 – 1995 time frame that Commodore UK had made the purchase.
William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.
In October 2002, Lineker backed a £ 5 million bid to rescue his former club Leicester City which recently had gone into administration, describing his involvement as charity rather than an ego trip.
By 1994, Kemp had embarked on 241 fund-raising dinners to raise $ 35 million for a 1996 Presidential bid and to pay off his 1988 campaign debts.
A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's " bid for artistic respectability ", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title " The World's Best Rock Band " were The Rolling Stones and The Who.
Team owners had voted, 31 – 1, with the Buffalo Bills the only objectors, to award the 2010 Super Bowl to New York contingent on the Jets winning the bid and completing construction of the stadium prior to 2010.
Porsche's move automatically triggered a bid for Scania AB, because VW AG already had a controlling position in the Swedish truck-maker.
As Porsche had no strategic interest in the company, on 19 January, they offered the minimum price in that mandatory takeover bid.
It was therefore unwelcome news to him that Ernest Shackleton had announced his own plans to travel to Discoverys old McMurdo Sound base and launch a bid for the South Pole from there.
This prompted an unsuccessful bid by Britain in 1956 to buy back the Somali lands it had turned over.
This prompted an unsuccessful bid by Britain in 1956 to buy back the Somali lands it had turned over.
Indianapolis, Indiana lost in its bid to host the game at the Hoosier Dome, as did Detroit's Pontiac Silverdome and Seattle's Kingdome, who had also applied.
NBC, which had held XXVII ( according the original rotation, NBC would have had XXVI and CBS XXVII, but the NFL allowed the networks to switch the two games in order to allow CBS a significant lead-in to its coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics ), was the only network to bid on XXVIII.
He obtained the repeal of some federal taxes in his bid to rely more on customs revenue, and dismantled much of the army and navy that he had inherited from Washington and Adams.
Former Reagan Administration official and Christian activist Alan Keyes had actively sought the Constitution nod after ending a bid for the GOP nomination.
Walter Mondale would have been entitled to the position had his 2002 Senate bid been successful.
Fans consider it inappropriate for bids to compete on the basis of their chosen guests ( so as to avoid having someone chosen by a losing bid feeling that fandom had voted against them personally ), so bids do not reveal who their guests are until after the vote, and losing bids generally never reveal who they invited.

bid and be
Now, if Morton's newest product, a corn chip known as Chip-o's, turns out to sell as well as its stock did, the stock may turn out to be worth every cent of the prices that the avid buyers bid it up to.
A high enough opening bid could signal a player's determination to be first ranked in that attribute, thereby dissuading others from competing.
The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.
It can sometimes be advantageous to bid a contract that one does not expect to make and to be defeated, thus losing some points, rather than allow the opposing side to bid and make a contract which would score them an even greater number of points.
During the auction, each bid must be ' sufficient ', i. e. it must be higher than its predecessor.
But if the sole purpose was to destroy a voting majority, or block a takeover bid, that would be an improper purpose.
Both versions are initiated by a bid of four notrump ( 4NT ), and the entire family of conventions may be called Blackwood 4NT in both versions, or Key Card 4NT in the key card variation.
This has to be planned in advance as if there is no such space partners have to bid a usually unmakeable slam contract.
This is a legacy of its bid to be the state capital, which it lost to Olympia.
The Summer Olympic Games includes Judo, Taekwondo, western archery, boxing, javelin, wrestling and fencing as events, while Chinese Wushu recently failed in its bid to be included, but is still actively performed in tournaments across the world.
The size of bids is based on the point scale and number of decks used ; traditionally, points are in multiples of 10, thus a minimum opening bid might be agreed to be 100 or 250.
Each bid must be greater than the previous one, and be a multiple of 10 or 25 ( if playing without trailing zeroes, the bid must be one or two greater respectively ).
In order for the winning bidder to win the hand, the combined total of melding and trick points must be equal to or greater than the winning bid.
The winning bid only decides trump ; both ( or all ) teams ' bids become their contract, meaning any team can score or be set.

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