Word: contractor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world's major reclamation projects moved a step ahead last week. Meeting in Paris, representatives of Pakistan and the World Bank finally selected the contractor who will build the giant Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in remote West Pakistan. Winner of the job, with a bid of $623 million for the eight-year project, is a consortium of French and Italian companies led by Impregilo of Milan...
...privately owned Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Co. are under no such restriction. Fired by the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission after a 1966 strike, garbage men in suburban Washington savored the immense satisfaction of going back to work-at the higher wages they had demanded-for the private contractor to whom the commission had let the new refuse-collection contract. Amid such contradictions, organized public workers are increasingly taking the position that collective bargaining is meaningless without the ultimate weapon of the strike which, used or not, brings gains to private employees...
...report also charged that the DOD fails to apply rental rates uniformly and to collect all it is owed. In one case where the Defense Department charged a contractor $226,400 for rent, the GAO calculated that $809,000 should have been collected...
...enter these contracts [Fixed Price contracts form the -overwhelming majority] either through a formally advertised competitive process, in which specifications are sent out and sealed bids are received, or through a negotiated process with the contractor. Formally advertised competition represents only 13.4 per cent of the total procurement...
...three skyscrapers, the only 100-story structures abuilding anywhere, are the handiwork of a remarkable general contractor: Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co. Long prominent as a builder and manager of its own apartments and offices, Tishman has spread not only into building for others but into research and consulting, fields where few construction firms venture. Explains President Robert V. Tishman: "I got tired of seeing everybody else grabbing up our ideas-for nothing...