In 1996 Tramtrack Croydon Limited ( TCL ) won a 99-year Private Finance Initiative ( PFI ) contract to design, build, operate and maintain the Tramlink system.

* In March 2011, HP Enterprise Services announced that Coca-Cola FEMSA signed a five-year technology outsourcing services contract valued in excess of $ 100 million to build and manage an HP Converged Infrastructure.

In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.

On 7 January 2010, it was announced that the contract to build the first 14 FOC satellites was awarded to

Two groups competed for the contract to build the railway, Sir Hugh Allan's Canada Pacific Railway Company and David Lewis Macpherson's Inter-Oceanic Railway Company.

It was announced in July 2009 that the Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul, together with a consortium of contractors consisting of the Spanish Sacyr Vallehermoso, the Italian Impregilo, and the Panamanian company Grupo Cusa, had been awarded the contract to build the six new locks.

On 22 November 2009 Deutsche Bahn and Qatari signed a contract to build high-speed railway lines and underground transport networks in Qatar and Bahrain.

* On 7 July 2005 the Syrian General Establishment for the Hejaz Railway announced that it had signed a contract worth US $ 54 million with a Lebanese company to build a railroad between Damascus and Damascus International Airport.

* May 4 – Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.

* January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront.

Most of them were brought as contract coolies to build the railroad, but many had come originally in pursuit of gold.

Following the success of the Tesla-Westinghouse exhibit, the Westinghouse Company was awarded the contract to build the power plant at Niagara Falls.

In 1934, Hawker Siddeley was given the contract to build an aircraft for </ br > the Royal Airforce ( RAF ). Hawker Siddeley went on to produce many other aircraft for the war effort.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

In July 1938, while the rest of Lockheed was busy tooling up to build Hudson reconnaissance bombers to fill a British contract, a small group of engineers was assigned to fabricate the first prototype of what would become the P-38 Lightning.

In 1955, the Skunk Works received a contract from the CIA to build a spyplane known as the U-2 with the intention of overflying the Soviet Union and photographing sites of strategic interest.

The Skunk Works got a contract in late 1959 to build five A-12 aircraft at a cost of $ 96 million.

After a series of successful test flights beginning in 1977, the Air force awarded Skunk Works the contract to build the F-117 stealth fighter on November 1, 1978.

The Coast Guard awarded a $ 28. 2 million contract to Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., in Lockport, La., on September 11, 2009, to build two 87-foot Protector-class Coastal Patrol Boats for the Yemen Coast Guard.

In May 2003, the company was given a no-bid contract by the United States Department of Defense to build a cellular telephone network in Iraq.

In 1955, Mare Island was awarded the contract to build, the first nuclear submarine laid down at a Pacific base.

A contract to build the new computer was signed in April 1946 with an initial budget of US $ 100, 000.

By January 1945 they had procured a contract to build this stored-program computer.

They secured a contract with the National Bureau of Standards to build an " EDVAC II ", later named UNIVAC.

In 1919, Warren Bechtel and his partners ( including his brother Arthur ) built the Klamath Highway in California, and in 1921 Warren Bechtel partners won a contract to build the water tunnels for the Caribou Hydroelectric Facility in that state.

The wider gauge would increase the cost of tunnels and bridges, but only by £ 785 on a final contract price of £ 29, 500.

In 1919, Warren Bechtel and his partners ( including his brother Arthur ) built the Klamath Highway in California, and in 1921 Warren Bechtel partners won a contract to build the water tunnels for the Caribou Hydroelectric Facility in that state.

Drilling the tunnels through the porous Navajo sandstone abutting the dam site posed major problems for the excavation crews of the Mountain States Construction Company, which won the contract for the diversion tunnels in 1956.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA ) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the U. S. state of New York, serving 12 counties in southeastern New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 800, 000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.

A month later, WMATA awarded a $ 19. 5 million contract to excavate a tunnel from the Navy Yard Station to the tunnels being built under the Anacostia River.

The Gotthard axis, with the new base tunnels at Gotthard, Zimmerberg and Ceneri is being built under contract from the Swiss Federal Government by the company AlpTransit Gotthard AG.

In August 2005, Lockheed Martin TSS was awarded a $ 212 million contract by the New York State MTA for a security system to protect Mass Transit operations in New York City, to include subways, commuter railroads and bridges and tunnels.

Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd won the contract to build ROF 11 and ROF 41, and the magazine tunnels.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Can you consider restricting any additional employee benefits to those paid for by profit-sharing money, such as was done in the union contract recently signed by American Motors Corporation??

Indeed, contract was the dominant legal theme of the century, the touchstone of the free society.

Government itself was based upon contract ; ;

trade was based on freedom of contract, and money was lent and borrowed on contractual terms ; ;

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

`` I am taking the position that the contract was clearly violated '', Berger said.

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

What Gabriel was asking was that mankind forego all its parochial moral judgments, and contract to let the Angels serve on Earth as it is in Heaven regardless of the applicable Earth laws.

Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never released.

The marriage contract was signed in September.

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).