(a) Competitive entry process

There was no open, competitive tender process, and the contract was not referred to the Monopolies and Contracts Commission.

Good governance, a vibrant civil society, functioning markets, and a competitive entrepreneurial private sector are essential ingredients of this process.

The Committee expects that the selection process will be fully transparent and compliant with established procedures for international competitive bidding.

But if either one of those draft resolutions were to be adopted, that would only be the beginning of a contentious and competitive process.

The cost of undertaking such a project has not been disclosed, as the Department considered that disclosure of cost estimates could prejudice the competitive tender process.

The National Transitional Government of Liberia sold the iron ore in Buchanan to a Chinese firm at below market price without following a transparent competitive bidding process.

National competitive examinations

Is it cost competitive?

Is Finance Too Competitive?

She is overly competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

The process of globalization had largely affected the business environment for SMEs, and it was becoming increasingly important for firms to become internationally competitive, if they were to survive.

It's a pre competitive issue.

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Chile, in the case of telecommunications, has adopted a scheme involving several elements a universal service levy (one per cent) to generate finances, and a competitive bidding process to allocate funds.

In developing countries in particular, an alert merger policy is important so that these transactions do not result in unilateral or collusive anti competitive effects, which would hinder the development process.

We believe that those elections will help foster a competitive democratic process, which will pave the way for the better protection of civilians and put an end to the ongoing violence.

Following a competitive bidding exercise in April 2001, IAPSO was selected to procure drugs and manage the related supply process for the Global Drug Facility (GDF) of the Stop TB Partnership (www.stoptb.org).

Programme Component D.1 Competitive Manufacturing

PM That's Dimitri at his most competitive.

It's not just competitive, it's also caring.

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He submitted that further research was needed on the appraisal of a quota system for people of African descent and the factors that tended to improve their representation in a free and competitive election process.

Some of the cases reviewed demonstrate that anti competitive practices such as collusion and abuse of dominance occur in a variety of sectors and that in many instances anti competitive practices involve a mixture of vertical and horizontal anti competitive practices.

Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

Zambia Anti competitive restrictions on exports of cement

(The lack of portability and the absence of annuity payouts are major shortcomings of most employer plans.) An independent board would oversee the state plan s administration, relying on a competitive bidding process to select investment managers.

The competitive advantage of TNCs from developed countries often stems from the possession of superior process or product technology that at the same time is a key ingredient to economic development (as acknowledged in the MDGs).

National competitive examination and General Service to Professional examination

Sustainability has got to be a pre competitive issue.

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Their development will be conducted on a competitive basis.

General description In order to offer competitive, safe, reliable and cost effective products, enterprises have to be restructured and upgraded, supported by investment and technology inflows for process upgrading, as well as by productivity and quality management improvement.

So, there is a huge competitive argument about sustaining the capacity for open source and consumer driven innovation, because it's one of the greatest competitive levers against monopoly.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

Sometimes hockey players get so competitive that fights break out.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

Having a competitive mentality can give rise to negative emotions.

In addition, they suffer from many structural and competitive disadvantages.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

The process is ongoing it requires communication with all parts of society consumers, businesspeople, trade unions, educators, the legal community, government and regulatory officials, and judges about the benefits of competitive markets to them and to their country's economy.

A former senior official of the European Commission expressed the view that a key ingredient in successful enforcement cooperation is mutual confidence in enforcement capabilities and in respect for confidentiality, arising from a shared commitment to upholding the competitive process.

Such a third party may be a private firm selected through a competitive process, as for instance in Australia and the United Kingdom, or a centralized purchasing agency, as in the United States, offering ERA services to other Unite States agencies.

The Working Group noted the advantages of publishing information on forthcoming procurement opportunities, such as transparency in the procurement process through reducing cases of ad hoc and emergency procurements, and, consequently, less frequent recourse to less competitive methods of procurement.