This allows them to have the machine without a public bid.

Under state law, contracts less than $20,000 are not required to go out for public bid.

They say contracts to supply software and services should be put out to public bid.

With or without a public bidding process, can the project remain open and aboveboard?

Those contracts have been renewed almost automatically with no public bidding since the early 1960's.

The following 12 companies were contracted under a public bidding system:

In December, 2000, a public bid was held for the site detoxifying contract.

Vendex said it was offering the same price in a public bid for the other shares.

The government also gained land which they sold in public bidding, and a large amount of greenspace.

Water Taxi said the lease was a flimsy reason to abandon public bidding.

The award of this project, which has a cost of $53.2 million dollars, was done through a public bidding process.

Leppert insisted that the contracts should be opened to public bidding instead.

"The integrity of the public bidding process in my mind was sacrificed due to political influence.

The three-story, 1,200-space garage will be built for $17 million by a developer after public bids.

"On the contrary, we recognize the potential dangers associated with a lack of public bidding in such instances."

When the money was approved, he said, the division would direct which companies would get the contracts without public bidding.

After a splashy start featuring a public bidding war among the states for the Saturn plant, the project soon came back down to earth.

I just need someone to tell me make the public bids and I could rebuild our parish in no time."

Later after winning the public bids for the project, construction began in December 2007 and ended in 2010.

In March 1813, he initiated the public bidding system that was to characterize subsequent government borrowings.

We took public bids and selected Lockheed to process and collect these bills.

But all five contracts went to New York Waterway, three of them without public bidding.

In 2011， it issued the public bidding announcement about purchasing of digital lab equipment for its new campus.

In 2003 the concession contracts expired, which lead to a modification of corridor numbers and a call for a new public bid.

After a public bid, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute increased its shares to 99.