Sample records for competitive bidding program

  1. Competitive bidding for Medicare Part B clinical laboratory services.

    PubMed

    Kautter, John; Pope, Gregory C

    2014-06-01

    The traditional Medicare fee-for-service program may be able to purchase clinical laboratory test services at a lower cost through competitive bidding. Demonstrations of competitive bidding for clinical laboratory tests have been twice mandated or authorized by Congress but never implemented. This article provides a summary and review of the final design of the laboratory competitive bidding demonstration mandated by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. The design was analogous to a sealed bid (first price), clearing price auction. Design elements presented include covered laboratory tests and beneficiaries, laboratory bidding and payment status under the demonstration, composite bids, determining bidding winners and the demonstration fee schedule, and quality under the demonstration. Expanded use of competitive bidding in Medicare, including specifically for clinical laboratory tests, has been recommended in some proposals for Medicare reform. The presented design may be a useful point of departure if Medicare clinical laboratory competitive bidding is revived in the future.

  2. 42 CFR 414.422 - Terms of contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ...) MEDICARE PROGRAM PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Competitive Bidding for Certain... exercised by CMS, for the full duration of the contract period. (b) Recompeting competitive bidding contracts. CMS recompetes competitive bidding contracts at least once every 3 years. (c) Nondiscrimination...

  3. 42 CFR 414.422 - Terms of contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...) MEDICARE PROGRAM PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Competitive Bidding for Certain... exercised by CMS, for the full duration of the contract period. (b) Recompeting competitive bidding contracts. CMS recompetes competitive bidding contracts at least once every 3 years. (c) Nondiscrimination...

  4. Medicare program; competitive acquisition for certain durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) and other issues. Final rule.

    PubMed

    2007-04-10

    This final rule establishes competitive bidding programs for certain Medicare Part B covered items of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) throughout the United States in accordance with sections 1847(a) and (b) of the Social Security Act. These competitive bidding programs, which will be phased in over several years, utilize bids submitted by DMEPOS suppliers to establish applicable payment amounts under Medicare Part B.

  5. COMPETITIVE BIDDING IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: EFFECT OF BENCHMARK CHANGES ON PLAN BIDS

    PubMed Central

    Song, Zirui; Landrum, Mary Beth; Chernew, Michael E.

    2013-01-01

    Bidding has been proposed to replace or complement the administered prices in Medicare pays to hospitals and health plans. In 2006, the Medicare Advantage program implemented a competitive bidding system to determine plan payments. In perfectly competitive models, plans bid their costs and thus bids are insensitive to the benchmark. Under many other models of competition, bids respond to changes in the benchmark. We conceptualize the bidding system and use an instrumental variable approach to study the effect of benchmark changes on bids. We use 2006–2010 plan payment data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published county benchmarks, actual realized fee-for-service costs, and Medicare Advantage enrollment. We find that a $1 increase in the benchmark leads to about a $0.53 increase in bids, suggesting that plans in the Medicare Advantage market have meaningful market power. PMID:24308881

  6. Competitive bidding in Medicare Advantage: effect of benchmark changes on plan bids.

    PubMed

    Song, Zirui; Landrum, Mary Beth; Chernew, Michael E

    2013-12-01

    Bidding has been proposed to replace or complement the administered prices that Medicare pays to hospitals and health plans. In 2006, the Medicare Advantage program implemented a competitive bidding system to determine plan payments. In perfectly competitive models, plans bid their costs and thus bids are insensitive to the benchmark. Under many other models of competition, bids respond to changes in the benchmark. We conceptualize the bidding system and use an instrumental variable approach to study the effect of benchmark changes on bids. We use 2006-2010 plan payment data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published county benchmarks, actual realized fee-for-service costs, and Medicare Advantage enrollment. We find that a $1 increase in the benchmark leads to about a $0.53 increase in bids, suggesting that plans in the Medicare Advantage market have meaningful market power. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  7. Improving the design of competitive bidding in Medicare Advantage.

    PubMed

    Cawley, John H; Whitford, Andrew B

    2007-04-01

    In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which required that in 2006 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implement a system of competitive bids to set payments for the Medicare Advantage program. Managed care plans now bid for the right to enroll Medicare beneficiaries. Data from the first year of bidding suggest that imperfect competition is limiting the success of the bidding system. This article offers suggestions to improve this system based on findings from auction theory and previous government-run auctions. In particular, CMS can benefit by adjusting its system of competitive bids in four ways: credibly committing to regulations governing bidding; limiting the scope for collusion, entry deterrence, and predatory behavior among bidders; adjusting how benchmark reimbursement rates are set; and accounting for asymmetric information among bidders.

  8. 78 FR 20323 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-04-04

    ... process by which covered items and supplies that were rented by suppliers before the implementation of a competitive bidding program may be continued. We established the grandfathering process in the April 10, 2007... these items are included under the Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program. This process only...

  9. Competitive bidding for home care under the channeling demonstration

    PubMed Central

    Christianson, Jon B.

    1987-01-01

    Competitive bidding is a relatively new strategy for setting rates and choosing providers for public medical care programs. In this article, the experience in competitive bidding by home health care providers and homemaker agencies in the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration is described. Particular attention is paid to contrasting approaches that select a single winning bidder with those that select multiple winning bidders for the same service. Results are discussed with respect to bid prices, characteristics of winning bidders, administrative demands, and service delivery. PMID:10312190

  10. 42 CFR 414.402 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... PROGRAM (CONTINUED) PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Competitive Bidding for Certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) § 414.402 Definitions. For... licensing organization requirements, constitutes a breach of contract. Competitive bidding area (CBA) means...

  11. 42 CFR 414.402 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... as part of an original bid submission under a competitive acquisition program in order to meet the... competitive bidding (for example, a product when it is furnished through mail order), or a combination of... other items in the same product category. Mail order contract supplier is a contract supplier that...

  12. Medicare Program; End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Coverage and Payment for Renal Dialysis Services Furnished to Individuals With Acute Kidney Injury, End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program, Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program Bid Surety Bonds, State Licensure and Appeals Process for Breach of Contract Actions, Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program and Fee Schedule Adjustments, Access to Care Issues for Durable Medical Equipment; and the Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care Model. Final rule.

    PubMed

    2016-11-04

    This rule updates and makes revisions to the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for calendar year 2017. It also finalizes policies for coverage and payment for renal dialysis services furnished by an ESRD facility to individuals with acute kidney injury. This rule also sets forth requirements for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program, including the inclusion of new quality measures beginning with payment year (PY) 2020 and provides updates to programmatic policies for the PY 2018 and PY 2019 ESRD QIP. This rule also implements statutory requirements for bid surety bonds and state licensure for the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program (CBP). This rule also expands suppliers' appeal rights in the event of a breach of contract action taken by CMS, by revising the appeals regulation to extend the appeals process to all types of actions taken by CMS for a supplier's breach of contract, rather than limit an appeal for the termination of a competitive bidding contract. The rule also finalizes changes to the methodologies for adjusting fee schedule amounts for DMEPOS using information from CBPs and for submitting bids and establishing single payment amounts under the CBPs for certain groupings of similar items with different features to address price inversions. Final changes also are made to the method for establishing bid limits for items under the DMEPOS CBPs. In addition, this rule summarizes comments on the impacts of coordinating Medicare and Medicaid Durable Medical Equipment for dually eligible beneficiaries. Finally, this rule also summarizes comments received in response to a request for information related to the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model and future payment models affecting renal care.

  13. 78 FR 34390 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-06-07

    ...), federal Agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection... DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program. Use: Section 1847(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (the Act) requires... items and supplies that were rented by suppliers before the implementation of a competitive bidding...

  14. 48 CFR 6.401 - Sealed bidding and competitive proposals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... competitive proposals. 6.401 Section 6.401 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION ACQUISITION PLANNING COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS Sealed Bidding and Competitive Proposals 6.401 Sealed bidding and competitive proposals. Sealed bidding and competitive proposals, as described in Parts...

  15. 48 CFR 6.401 - Sealed bidding and competitive proposals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... competitive proposals. 6.401 Section 6.401 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION ACQUISITION PLANNING COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS Sealed Bidding and Competitive Proposals 6.401 Sealed bidding and competitive proposals. Sealed bidding and competitive proposals, as described in Parts...

  16. 42 CFR 414.412 - Submission of bids under a competitive bidding program.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... D of this part. (c) Furnishing of items. A bid must include all costs related to furnishing an item... capital, stock or profits of another supplier; (ii) A controlling interest exists if one or more of owners... controlling interest and each supplier which has an ownership or controlling interest in it. (3) Commonly...

  17. 47 CFR 1.2202 - Competitive bidding design options.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Section 1.2202 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Grants...) Procedures that utilize mathematical computer optimization software, such as integer programming, to evaluate... evaluating bids using a ranking based on specified factors. (B) Procedures that combine computer optimization...

  18. 47 CFR 1.2103 - Competitive bidding design options.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Competitive bidding design options. 1.2103 Section 1.2103 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2103 Competitive bidding design options. (a) The...

  19. Procurement of construction services: a case study on bidding competition in Singapore public sector contracts

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Oo, B. L.; Yan, Y.

    2018-04-01

    There are many variables that public clients need to consider in their bidding procedure to enhance efficiency in their procurement for construction services. This paper focusses on the competitive bidding process for public sector procurement of construction services in Singapore. A distinctive feature of the Singapore government competitive bidding process is that full bidding feedback information is released to all competing bidders (and public). The specific objectives are: (i) to examine the degree of competition in the construction markets; and (ii) to examine the bidding performance of competing bidders. Based on a collection of bidding data for a 15-month period, the results show the market environment of the Singapore public sector construction contracting is highly competitive with long bidder lists. In selection of contractors, only 50% of the contracts were awarded to lowest bidders. The results also show that the competing contractors can be broadly classified into three groups based on their bidding performance in terms of number of bidding attempts, bidding success rate and bidding competitiveness. These results provide a useful insight into the bidding competition in the Singapore public sector construction contracting, especially to new market entrants and foreign contractors who want to bid for jobs in Singapore.

  20. 47 CFR 54.603 - Competitive bid requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Competitive bid requirements. 54.603 Section 54...) UNIVERSAL SERVICE Universal Service Support for Health Care Providers § 54.603 Competitive bid requirements. (a) Competitive bidding requirement. To select the telecommunications carriers that will provide...

  1. 47 CFR 90.801 - 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES PRIVATE LAND MOBILE RADIO SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for 900 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.801 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 900 MHz SMR service licenses are subject to competitive bidding. The...

  2. Competitive bidding in Medicare: who benefits from competition?

    PubMed

    Song, Zirui; Landrum, Mary Beth; Chernew, Michael E

    2012-09-01

    To conduct the first empirical study of competitive bidding in Medicare. We analyzed 2006-2010 Medicare Advantage data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services using longitudinal models adjusted for market and plan characteristics. A $1 increase in Medicare's payment to health maintenance organization (HMO) plans led to a $0.49 (P <.001) increase in plan bids, with $0.34 (P <.001) going to beneficiaries in the form of extra benefits or lower cost sharing. With preferred provider organization and private fee-for-service plans included, higher Medicare payments increased bids less ($0.33 per dollar), suggesting more competition among these latter plans. As a market-based alternative to cost control through administrative pricing, competitive bidding relies on private insurance plans proposing prices they are willing to accept for insuring a beneficiary. However, competition is imperfect in the Medicare bidding market. As much as half of every dollar in increased plan payment went to higher bids rather than to beneficiaries. While having more insurers in a market lowered bids, the design of any bidding system for Medicare should recognize this shortcoming of competition.

  3. 25 CFR 166.221 - How do I acquire an advertised permit through competitive bidding?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false How do I acquire an advertised permit through competitive... permit through competitive bidding? (a) As part of the negotiation of a permit, Indian landowners may... responsible bidder(s), which may require further competitive bidding after the bid opening; and (4) Prepare...

  4. 25 CFR 166.221 - How do I acquire an advertised permit through competitive bidding?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false How do I acquire an advertised permit through competitive... permit through competitive bidding? (a) As part of the negotiation of a permit, Indian landowners may... responsible bidder(s), which may require further competitive bidding after the bid opening; and (4) Prepare...

  5. 26 CFR 403.61 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive bids. 403.61 Section... open, competitive bids. If forfeited property is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open, competitive bids, the notice of sale shall so specify, and state the date, hour, and place of...

  6. 26 CFR 403.61 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive bids. 403.61 Section... open, competitive bids. If forfeited property is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open, competitive bids, the notice of sale shall so specify, and state the date, hour, and place of...

  7. 26 CFR 403.61 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive bids. 403.61 Section... open, competitive bids. If forfeited property is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open, competitive bids, the notice of sale shall so specify, and state the date, hour, and place of...

  8. 26 CFR 403.61 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive bids. 403.61 Section... open, competitive bids. If forfeited property is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open, competitive bids, the notice of sale shall so specify, and state the date, hour, and place of...

  9. 26 CFR 403.61 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive bids. 403.61 Section... open, competitive bids. If forfeited property is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open, competitive bids, the notice of sale shall so specify, and state the date, hour, and place of...

  10. Competitive Bidding in Medicare: Who Benefits From Competition?

    PubMed Central

    Song, Zirui; Landrum, Mary Beth; Chernew, Michael E.

    2012-01-01

    Objectives To conduct the first empirical study of competitive bidding in Medicare. Study Design and Methods We analyzed 2006–2010 Medicare Advantage data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services using longitudinal models adjusted for market and plan characteristics. Results A $1 increase in Medicare's payment to health maintenance organization (HMO) plans led to a $0.49 (P <.001) increase in plan bids, with $0.34 (P <.001) going to beneficiaries in the form of extra benefits or lower cost sharing. With preferred provider organization and private fee-for-service plans included, higher Medicare payments increased bids less ($0.33 per dollar), suggesting more competition among these latter plans. Conclusions As a market-based alternative to cost control through administrative pricing, competitive bidding relies on private insurance plans proposing prices they are willing to accept for insuring a beneficiary. However, competition is imperfect in the Medicare bidding market. As much as half of every dollar in increased plan payment went to higher bids rather than to beneficiaries. While having more insurers in a market lowered bids, the design of any bidding system for Medicare should recognize this shortcoming of competition. PMID:23009305

  11. 43 CFR 2710.0-6 - Policy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... of public lands under this section shall be conducted under competitive bidding procedures... competitive bidding or without competitive bidding. In recognizing public policies, the Secretary shall give... considered in determining the method of sale. These factors include, but are not limited to: Competitive...

  12. 47 CFR 22.228 - Cellular rural service area licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding... initial applications for Cellular Rural Service Area licenses are subject to competitive bidding. The...

  13. 45 CFR 1634.3 - Competition for grants and contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.3 Competition for grants and contracts. (a... Corporation under Section 1006(a)(1)(A) of the LSC Act shall be subject to the competitive bidding process... selected on the basis of the competitive bidding process described in this part. (b) The Corporation shall...

  14. 45 CFR 1634.3 - Competition for grants and contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.3 Competition for grants and contracts. (a... Corporation under Section 1006(a)(1)(A) of the LSC Act shall be subject to the competitive bidding process... selected on the basis of the competitive bidding process described in this part. (b) The Corporation shall...

  15. 47 CFR 80.1251 - Maritime communications subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Maritime communications subject to competitive... AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES STATIONS IN THE MARITIME SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures § 80.1251 Maritime communications subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for VPCSA...

  16. 42 CFR 414.906 - Competitive acquisition program as the basis for payment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... section, payment for CAP drugs is based on bids submitted as a result of the bidding process as described... established. (d) Adjustments. There is an established process for adjustments to payments to account for drugs... of— (A) One or more newly issued HCPCS codes; or (B) One of the following single indication orphan...

  17. 47 CFR 90.1021 - Definitions concerning competitive bidding process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Definitions concerning competitive bidding process. 90.1021 Section 90.1021 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY... 220 MHz Service § 90.1021 Definitions concerning competitive bidding process. (a) Scope. The...

  18. 47 CFR 101.1101 - LMDS service subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false LMDS service subject to competitive bidding. 101.1101 Section 101.1101 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1101 LMDS...

  19. 47 CFR 101.1101 - LMDS service subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false LMDS service subject to competitive bidding. 101.1101 Section 101.1101 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1101 LMDS...

  20. 47 CFR 101.1101 - LMDS service subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false LMDS service subject to competitive bidding. 101.1101 Section 101.1101 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1101 LMDS...

  1. 47 CFR 101.1101 - LMDS service subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false LMDS service subject to competitive bidding. 101.1101 Section 101.1101 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1101 LMDS...

  2. 47 CFR 101.1101 - LMDS service subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false LMDS service subject to competitive bidding. 101.1101 Section 101.1101 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1101 LMDS...

  3. 47 CFR 1.2113 - Construction prior to grant of application.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2113 Construction prior to grant of application. Subject to the provisions of this section, applicants for licenses awarded by competitive bidding may..., applicants must not begin to construct facilities for licenses subject to competitive bidding. (a) When...

  4. 47 CFR 1.2113 - Construction prior to grant of application.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2113 Construction prior to grant of application. Subject to the provisions of this section, applicants for licenses awarded by competitive bidding may..., applicants must not begin to construct facilities for licenses subject to competitive bidding. (a) When...

  5. 47 CFR 1.2109 - License grant, denial, default, and disqualification.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... PROCEDURE Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2109 License grant, denial, default, and... has declared competitive bidding closed or fails to remit the required down payment within ten (10) business days after the Commission has declared competitive bidding closed, the bidder will be deemed to...

  6. 47 CFR 1.2109 - License grant, denial, default, and disqualification.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... PROCEDURE Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2109 License grant, denial, default, and... has declared competitive bidding closed or fails to remit the required down payment within ten (10) business days after the Commission has declared competitive bidding closed, the bidder will be deemed to...

  7. 47 CFR 90.801 - 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. 90.801 Section 90.801 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.801 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually...

  8. 47 CFR 90.801 - 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. 90.801 Section 90.801 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.801 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually...

  9. 47 CFR 90.801 - 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. 90.801 Section 90.801 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.801 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually...

  10. 47 CFR 90.801 - 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. 90.801 Section 90.801 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.801 900 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually...

  11. 47 CFR 90.901 - 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES PRIVATE LAND MOBILE RADIO SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for 800 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.901 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 800 MHz band licenses in Spectrum Blocks A through V are subject to...

  12. 75 FR 4701 - In the Matter of Procedural Amendments to Commission Part 1 Competitive Bidding Rules

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-01-29

    ... Procedural Amendments to Commission Part 1 Competitive Bidding Rules AGENCY: Federal Communications... bidding rules. The Commission amends the rule specifying how to report potential violations of the prohibition on certain communications in order to reduce the risk that bidding-related information might be...

  13. 48 CFR 2122.170 - Contract clauses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... GROUP LIFE INSURANCE FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS APPLICATION OF LABOR LAWS TO... from competitive bidding (5 U.S.C. 8709), which obviates the issuance of solicitations. [58 FR 40377...

  14. 48 CFR 2122.170 - Contract clauses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... GROUP LIFE INSURANCE FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS APPLICATION OF LABOR LAWS TO... from competitive bidding (5 U.S.C. 8709), which obviates the issuance of solicitations. [58 FR 40377...

  15. 46 CFR Sec. 2 - Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP Sec. 2 Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards. (a) The NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract is a Master form of fixed price contract and is applicable to... awarded under the NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract must be awarded upon the basis of competitive bids. Revised...

  16. 46 CFR Sec. 2 - Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP Sec. 2 Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards. (a) The NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract is a Master form of fixed price contract and is applicable to... awarded under the NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract must be awarded upon the basis of competitive bids. Revised...

  17. 46 CFR Sec. 2 - Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP Sec. 2 Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards. (a) The NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract is a Master form of fixed price contract and is applicable to... awarded under the NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract must be awarded upon the basis of competitive bids. Revised...

  18. 46 CFR Sec. 2 - Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP Sec. 2 Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards. (a) The NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract is a Master form of fixed price contract and is applicable to... awarded under the NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract must be awarded upon the basis of competitive bids. Revised...

  19. 46 CFR Sec. 2 - Use of contract for competitive bid and negotiated price awards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... ship repair work awarded as a result of competitive bidding or negotiation. As a general rule all work... shall be rejected. If the ship's availability permits a new Invitation for Bids for the work in question... the accomplishment of work under the NSA-LUMPSUMREP Contract will be permitted in lieu of competitive...

  20. 47 CFR 27.1103 - 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands subject... MHz, 2000-2020 MHz, and 2180-2200 MHz bands Licensing and Competitive Bidding Provisions § 27.1103 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial...

  1. 76 FR 6154 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Bid Sale of Public Lands in Santa Cruz County, CA

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-02-03

    ...; CACA 50168 06] Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Bid Sale of Public Lands in Santa Cruz... fair market value of $53,000. The sale will be conducted as a modified competitive bid auction, whereby... public land. DATES: Written comments regarding this proposed sale must be received by the BLM on or...

  2. Developing Medicare Competitive Bidding: A Study of Clinical Laboratories

    PubMed Central

    Hoerger, Thomas J.; Meadow, Ann

    1997-01-01

    Competitive bidding to derive Medicare fees promises several advantages over administered fee systems. The authors show how incentives for cost savings, quality, and access can be incorporated into bidding schemes, and they report on a study of the clinical laboratory industry conducted in preparation for a bidding demonstration. The laboratory industry is marked by variable concentration across geographic markets and, among firms themselves, by social and economic heterogeneity. The authors conclude that these conditions can be accommodated by available bidding design options and by careful selection of bidding markets. PMID:10180003

  3. 7 CFR 1726.201 - Formal competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... AGRICULTURE ELECTRIC SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Procurement Procedures § 1726.201 Formal... formal competitive bidding: (a) Selection of qualified bidders. The borrower (acting through its engineer... § 1726.23). (b) Invitations to bid. The borrower (acting through its engineer, if applicable) is...

  4. 7 CFR 1726.201 - Formal competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... AGRICULTURE ELECTRIC SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Procurement Procedures § 1726.201 Formal... formal competitive bidding: (a) Selection of qualified bidders. The borrower (acting through its engineer... § 1726.23). (b) Invitations to bid. The borrower (acting through its engineer, if applicable) is...

  5. 7 CFR 1726.201 - Formal competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... AGRICULTURE ELECTRIC SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Procurement Procedures § 1726.201 Formal... formal competitive bidding: (a) Selection of qualified bidders. The borrower (acting through its engineer... § 1726.23). (b) Invitations to bid. The borrower (acting through its engineer, if applicable) is...

  6. 7 CFR 1726.201 - Formal competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... AGRICULTURE ELECTRIC SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Procurement Procedures § 1726.201 Formal... formal competitive bidding: (a) Selection of qualified bidders. The borrower (acting through its engineer... § 1726.23). (b) Invitations to bid. The borrower (acting through its engineer, if applicable) is...

  7. 7 CFR 1726.201 - Formal competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... AGRICULTURE ELECTRIC SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Procurement Procedures § 1726.201 Formal... formal competitive bidding: (a) Selection of qualified bidders. The borrower (acting through its engineer... § 1726.23). (b) Invitations to bid. The borrower (acting through its engineer, if applicable) is...

  8. 47 CFR 1.2203 - Competitive bidding mechanisms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Random Selection Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse Auction § 1.2203... forward auction assigning new spectrum licenses will occur. (2) Reserve price. Reserve prices, either... winning bid. A winning bidder will relinquish spectrum usage rights pursuant to the terms of any winning...

  9. Competitive negotiation: the Virginia SCC's model for procurement of generating capacity

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Not Available

    The Virginia SCC, in approving competitive alternatives to avoided costs under PURPA, rejected competitive bidding in favor of competitive negotiation for power sales contracts. The difference is important, and points in the direction of increased discretion for utilities seeking new generating capacity from independents. The distinction between competitive bidding, and competitive negotiation, in a nutshell, is that in a bid, the low price bidder wins. In a negotiation, the offeror of the most-meritorious proposals are ranked, and an attempt to reach agreement on price is made with the high-ranked offeror. Only if there is no agreement on price will themore » most-meritorious bid be rejected, and negotiations with the offeror of the next best proposal begun. The Virginia Public Procurement Act, Sec. II-37, Definitions, Parts 1, 2, and 3.a. is included.« less

  10. 45 CFR 1634.4 - Announcement of competition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE... competitive bidding process, shall take appropriate steps to announce the availability of such a grant or... interested parties are given an opportunity to participate in the competitive bidding process. (b) The...

  11. 45 CFR 1634.4 - Announcement of competition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE... competitive bidding process, shall take appropriate steps to announce the availability of such a grant or... interested parties are given an opportunity to participate in the competitive bidding process. (b) The...

  12. 36 CFR 223.88 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.88... methods. (a) Competitive sales of National Forest timber shall be offered through either sealed or oral auction bidding. The method chosen for each sale will: (1) Insure open and fair competition, (2) Insure...

  13. Competition for national forest timber in the Northern, Pacific Southwest, and Pacific Northwest regions.

    Treesearch

    Richard W. Haynes

    1980-01-01

    Competition for National Forest timber was examined in the Northern, Pacific Southwest, and Pacific Northwest Regions of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. The impacts of sealed bidding and the Small Business Set-Aside Program were found to vary widely among the different appraisal zones. Noncompetitive sales were screened for collusive activity; and...

  14. 47 CFR 73.5000 - Services subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... following broadcast services are subject to competitive bidding: AM; FM; FM translator; analog television; low-power television; television translator; and Class A television. Mutually exclusive applications...

  15. 47 CFR 22.969 - Cellular RSA licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Cellular Radiotelephone Service § 22.969 Cellular RSA licenses subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive applications for initial authorization for the...

  16. Bid purchasing of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Swanson, D.P.; Jakubowski, D.L.; Shoup, L.K.

    Use of product standardization and competitive-bid purchasing for radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media in a 1000-bed teaching hospital is described. The hospital's use of radiopharmaceuticals was reviewed, and all agents were listed with their product specifications and order quantity or frequency. Manufacturers and wholesalers were asked to submit unit prices for each of their products. Similar procedures were followed for radiopaque contrast media; wholesalers and manufacturers were asked to submit unit prices that would be guaranteed for a 12-month contract period. A nuclear pharmacist and radiologists reviewed the submitted bids and awarded contracts, basing their decisions primarily on product acceptabilitymore » and selection criteria and then on relative costs of the agents. Annual costs were reduced 16% ($16,500) for radiopharmaceuticals and 21.3% ($66,500) for radiopaque contrast media. The program also resulted in decreased inventory of radiopaque contrast media and in faster and less expensive acquisition of emergency orders. Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.« less

  17. 47 CFR 25.403 - Bidding application and certification procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... CARRIER SERVICES SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS Competitive Bidding Procedures for DARS § 25.403 Bidding...'s name; (b) Mailing Address (no Post Office boxes); (c) City; (d) State; (e) ZIP Code; (f) Auction...

  18. 47 CFR 25.403 - Bidding application and certification procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... CARRIER SERVICES SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS Competitive Bidding Procedures for DARS § 25.403 Bidding...'s name; (b) Mailing Address (no Post Office boxes); (c) City; (d) State; (e) ZIP Code; (f) Auction...

  19. 46 CFR Sec. 2 - Description of NSA-WORKSMALREP Contract.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... competitive bids, spot bids, or by negotiation for the performance of ship repair work. NSA Order No. 46 (SRM... bids, spot bids or negotiation, therefore, further reference thereto will not be made herein. ...

  20. 47 CFR 27.1103 - 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands subject... Bidding Provisions § 27.1103 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz band licenses are subject to...

  1. The Contractor's Role in Competitive Bid Construction.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Toy, G. Arlan

    1986-01-01

    In a competitive bid situation, the general contractor's first priority is controlling construction costs. The actions the general contractor take focus on adequate control, effective communication, efficient use of resources, and prevention of delays. (MLF)

  2. Terror in the Board Room: The Bid-Opening Process

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shoop, James

    2009-01-01

    Competitive bids and the bid-opening process are the cornerstones of public school purchasing. The bid-opening process does not begin on the day of the bid opening. It begins with good planning by the purchasing agent to ensure that the advertised bid complies with the public school contracts law. In New Jersey, that raises the following…

  3. 36 CFR 223.88 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.88... Sale Contracts Advertisement and Bids § 223.88 Bidding methods. (a) Competitive sales of National Forest timber shall be offered through either sealed or oral auction bidding. The method chosen for each...

  4. 36 CFR 223.88 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.88... Sale Contracts Advertisement and Bids § 223.88 Bidding methods. (a) Competitive sales of National Forest timber shall be offered through either sealed or oral auction bidding. The method chosen for each...

  5. 36 CFR 223.88 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.88... Sale Contracts Advertisement and Bids § 223.88 Bidding methods. (a) Competitive sales of National Forest timber shall be offered through either sealed or oral auction bidding. The method chosen for each...

  6. 36 CFR 223.88 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.88... Sale Contracts Advertisement and Bids § 223.88 Bidding methods. (a) Competitive sales of National Forest timber shall be offered through either sealed or oral auction bidding. The method chosen for each...

  7. 47 CFR 90.901 - 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.901 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 800 MHz band licenses in Spectrum Blocks A through V are subject to...

  8. 47 CFR 90.901 - 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.901 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 800 MHz band licenses in Spectrum Blocks A through V are subject to...

  9. 47 CFR 90.901 - 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.901 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 800 MHz band licenses in Spectrum Blocks A through V are subject to...

  10. 47 CFR 90.901 - 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive... Specialized Mobile Radio Service § 90.901 800 MHz SMR spectrum subject to competitive bidding. Mutually exclusive initial applications for 800 MHz band licenses in Spectrum Blocks A through V are subject to...

  11. 27 CFR 72.67 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive... PROPERTY Administrative Sale or Disposition of Personal Property § 72.67 Sale on open, competitive bids. If the personal property or carrier is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open...

  12. 27 CFR 72.67 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive... PROPERTY Administrative Sale or Disposition of Personal Property § 72.67 Sale on open, competitive bids. If the personal property or carrier is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open...

  13. 27 CFR 72.67 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2012-04-01 2011-04-01 true Sale on open, competitive... PROPERTY Administrative Sale or Disposition of Personal Property § 72.67 Sale on open, competitive bids. If the personal property or carrier is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open...

  14. 27 CFR 72.67 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive... PROPERTY Administrative Sale or Disposition of Personal Property § 72.67 Sale on open, competitive bids. If the personal property or carrier is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open...

  15. 27 CFR 72.67 - Sale on open, competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Sale on open, competitive... PROPERTY Administrative Sale or Disposition of Personal Property § 72.67 Sale on open, competitive bids. If the personal property or carrier is to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on open...

  16. Optimal GENCO bidding strategy

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gao, Feng

    Electricity industries worldwide are undergoing a period of profound upheaval. The conventional vertically integrated mechanism is being replaced by a competitive market environment. Generation companies have incentives to apply novel technologies to lower production costs, for example: Combined Cycle units. Economic dispatch with Combined Cycle units becomes a non-convex optimization problem, which is difficult if not impossible to solve by conventional methods. Several techniques are proposed here: Mixed Integer Linear Programming, a hybrid method, as well as Evolutionary Algorithms. Evolutionary Algorithms share a common mechanism, stochastic searching per generation. The stochastic property makes evolutionary algorithms robust and adaptive enough to solve a non-convex optimization problem. This research implements GA, EP, and PS algorithms for economic dispatch with Combined Cycle units, and makes a comparison with classical Mixed Integer Linear Programming. The electricity market equilibrium model not only helps Independent System Operator/Regulator analyze market performance and market power, but also provides Market Participants the ability to build optimal bidding strategies based on Microeconomics analysis. Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE) is attractive compared to traditional models. This research identifies a proper SFE model, which can be applied to a multiple period situation. The equilibrium condition using discrete time optimal control is then developed for fuel resource constraints. Finally, the research discusses the issues of multiple equilibria and mixed strategies, which are caused by the transmission network. Additionally, an advantage of the proposed model for merchant transmission planning is discussed. A market simulator is a valuable training and evaluation tool to assist sellers, buyers, and regulators to understand market performance and make better decisions. A traditional optimization model may not be enough to consider the distributed, large-scale, and complex energy market. This research compares the performance and searching paths of different artificial life techniques such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Programming (EP), and Particle Swarm (PS), and look for a proper method to emulate Generation Companies' (GENCOs) bidding strategies. After deregulation, GENCOs face risk and uncertainty associated with the fast-changing market environment. A profit-based bidding decision support system is critical for GENCOs to keep a competitive position in the new environment. Most past research do not pay special attention to the piecewise staircase characteristic of generator offer curves. This research proposes an optimal bidding strategy based on Parametric Linear Programming. The proposed algorithm is able to handle actual piecewise staircase energy offer curves. The proposed method is then extended to incorporate incomplete information based on Decision Analysis. Finally, the author develops an optimal bidding tool (GenBidding) and applies it to the RTS96 test system.

  17. Competitive Bidding in a Certain Class of Auctions

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Johansson, Mathias

    2006-11-01

    We consider the problem of determining the amount to bid in a certain type of auctions in which customers submit one sealed bid. The bid reflects the price a customer is willing to pay for one unit of the offered goods. The auction is repeated and at each auction each customer requests a certain amount of goods, an amount that we call the capacity of the customer and that varies among customers and over time. At each auction, only the customer with the largest bid-capacity product obtains any goods. The price paid by the winner equals his/her bid-capacity product, and the amount of goods obtained in return equals the winner's capacity. The auction is repeated many times, with only limited information concerning winning bid-capacity products being announced to the customers. This situation is motivated in for example wireless communication networks in which a possible way of obtaining a desired service level is to use dynamic pricing and competitive bidding. In this application, the capacity is typically uncertain when the bid is made. We derive bidding rules and loss functions for a few typical service requirements.

  18. 7 CFR 226.22 - Procurement standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... which offerors must fulfill and all other factors to be used in evaluating bids or proposals. (2) Awards... purchase procedures are those relatively simple and informal procurement methods that are sound and... documented business reasons in the best interest of the Program. (3) In competitive negotiation, proposals...

  19. 7 CFR 226.22 - Procurement standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... which offerors must fulfill and all other factors to be used in evaluating bids or proposals. (2) Awards... purchase procedures are those relatively simple and informal procurement methods that are sound and... documented business reasons in the best interest of the Program. (3) In competitive negotiation, proposals...

  20. 47 CFR 27.1217 - Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio Service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Broadband Radio Service. 27.1217 Section 27.1217 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Broadband Radio Service and Educational Broadband Service § 27.1217 Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio...

  1. 42 CFR 421.5 - General provisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... U.S. Revised Statutes or any other provision of law that requires competitive bidding. (b.... (a) Competitive bidding not required for carriers. CMS may enter into contracts with carriers, or... certain administrative responsibilities that the law imposes. Accordingly, their agreements and contracts...

  2. 42 CFR 421.5 - General provisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... U.S. Revised Statutes or any other provision of law that requires competitive bidding. (b.... (a) Competitive bidding not required for carriers. CMS may enter into contracts with carriers, or... certain administrative responsibilities that the law imposes. Accordingly, their agreements and contracts...

  3. 47 CFR 27.1217 - Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio Service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Broadband Radio Service. 27.1217 Section 27.1217 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Broadband Radio Service and Educational Broadband Service § 27.1217 Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio...

  4. 47 CFR 27.1217 - Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio Service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Broadband Radio Service. 27.1217 Section 27.1217 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Broadband Radio Service and Educational Broadband Service § 27.1217 Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio...

  5. 47 CFR 27.1217 - Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio Service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Broadband Radio Service. 27.1217 Section 27.1217 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Broadband Radio Service and Educational Broadband Service § 27.1217 Competitive bidding procedures for the Broadband Radio...

  6. 47 CFR 22.881 - Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... competitive bidding. 22.881 Section 22.881 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service Commercial Aviation Air... exclusive initial applications for commercial Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service licenses are subject to...

  7. 45 CFR 1634.10 - Transition provisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.10 Transition provisions. (a) When the competitive bidding process... the area currently served by that recipient, the Corporation— (1) may provide, if the law permits...

  8. 47 CFR 54.503 - Competitive bidding requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... (CONTINUED) UNIVERSAL SERVICE Universal Service Support for Schools and Libraries § 54.503 Competitive bidding requirements. (a) All entities participating in the schools and libraries universal service... as provided in § 54.511(c), an eligible school, library, or consortium that includes an eligible...

  9. Defense Acquisition Research Journal. Volume 21, Number 1, Issue 68

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-01-01

    Harrison’s game theory model of competition examines the bidding behavior of two equal competitors, but it does not address character- istics that...analysis examines a series of outcomes in both competitive and sole-source acquisition programs, using a statistical model that builds on a game theory ...model- ing, within a game theory framework developed by Todd Harrison, to show that the DoD may actually incur increased costs from competi- tion

  10. Competitive bidding for health insurance contracts.

    PubMed

    Keijser, G M; Kirkman-Liff, B L

    1992-05-01

    The determination of the payment or premium to be paid to the insurer by a large purchaser of care must accurately represent the risk of the enrolled persons. One approach is a risk-adjusted payment established by a mathematical formula, which estimates the effect of many variables on total care costs, and for different groups of persons determine an average cost. This method has several problems, and an alternative is competitive bidding. Market forces pressure providers to offer the lowest possible bids while attempting to remain fiscally viable and provide high-quality services. Research from the U.S. demonstrates that competitive contracting effectively lowered the costs of health care for those sectors of the health care system that used this strategy. Bidding by area gave far more equitable results than could have been obtained with a state-wide system with crude adjustments for each area. It is an alternative which can create strong incentives for innovation and cost-containment, and at the same time allows insurers to take into account local variation in supply and demand of care. As a potential alternative to a regulatory system, competitive bidding should be considered for regional experimentation in health insurer payment.

  11. 36 CFR 223.231 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.231... Forest Products Advertisement and Bids § 223.231 Bidding methods. The Contracting Officer or designated... followed by oral auction. The method selected shall: (a) Ensure open and fair competition; (b) Ensure that...

  12. 36 CFR 223.231 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.231... Forest Products Advertisement and Bids § 223.231 Bidding methods. The Contracting Officer or designated... followed by oral auction. The method selected shall: (a) Ensure open and fair competition; (b) Ensure that...

  13. 36 CFR 223.231 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.231... Forest Products Advertisement and Bids § 223.231 Bidding methods. The Contracting Officer or designated... followed by oral auction. The method selected shall: (a) Ensure open and fair competition; (b) Ensure that...

  14. 36 CFR 223.231 - Bidding methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Bidding methods. 223.231... Forest Products Advertisement and Bids § 223.231 Bidding methods. The Contracting Officer or designated... followed by oral auction. The method selected shall: (a) Ensure open and fair competition; (b) Ensure that...

  15. Analysis of Low Bidding and Change Order Rates for Navy Facilities Construction Contracts.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1984-06-01

    examine his motives and strategies prior to bidding. Several measures of " level cf competitiveness" are introduced from bidding theory literature that...bidders of fixed-price Government construction contracts have on contract prices when the level FORM, 1473 EDITION OF INOV 6 o IS OBSOLETE S N 0 102...conventional measures of the . level of competition intensity are applied in regression and variance analyses. en, z e ., . , 144 , UNCLASSIFIED 2 SgCURITlY

  16. Alternative Salary Auction Mechanisms for the Navy: An Experimental Program

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-12-01

    33 2. Fidelity of WTP Information ............................................................33 3. Effects of Competition...70 3. WTA and WTP Control ....................................................................70 4. Bidding...jar of pennies would be $18, which is the maximum that buyer’s willingness to pay ( WTP ) for that object. 8 2. First-price and Second-price

  17. 47 CFR 54.503 - Competitive bidding requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... competition or would furnish the service provider with inside information; someone other than the applicant or... information, to the extent applicable with respect to the services requested: (i) A list of specified services for which the school, library, or consortium requests bids; and (ii) Sufficient information to enable...

  18. 43 CFR 3471.3-2 - Sale of underlying interests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... provisions of the mineral leasing laws, the lease or interest therein is cancelled or forfeited, and if there... responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding, in a manner similar to that provided for in the offering of leases by competitive bidding, subject to all outstanding valid interests and options. If less...

  19. 47 CFR 27.905 - 1670-1675 MHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false 1670-1675 MHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding. 27.905 Section 27.905 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES 1670-1675 MHz Band § 27.905 1670...

  20. 47 CFR 27.905 - 1670-1675 MHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false 1670-1675 MHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding. 27.905 Section 27.905 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES 1670-1675 MHz Band § 27.905 1670...

  1. 47 CFR 101.537 - 24 GHz band subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false 24 GHz band subject to competitive bidding. 101.537 Section 101.537 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES 24 GHz Service and Digital Electronic Message Service § 101.537...

  2. 75 FR 57052 - Notice of Single Family Loan Sale (SFLS 2010)

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-09-17

    ... submitted and determine the successful bid or bids, in terms of the best value to HUD, in its sole and... Sale (SFLS 2010) AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner... insurance, in a competitive, sealed bid sale (SFLS 2010). This notice also generally describes the bidding...

  3. Paying Medicare Advantage plans by competitive bidding: how much competition is there?

    PubMed

    Biles, Brian; Pozen, Jonah; Guterman, Stuart

    2009-08-01

    Private health plans that enroll Medicare beneficiaries--known as Medicare Advantage (MA) plans--are being paid $11 billion more in 2009 than it would cost to cover these beneficiaries in regular fee-for-service Medicare. To generate Medicare savings for offsetting the costs of health reform, the Obama Administration has proposed eliminating these extra payments to private insurers and instituting a competitive bidding system that pays MA plans based on the bids they submit. This study examines the concentration of enrollment among MA plans and the degree to which firms offering MA plans actually face competition. The results show that in the large majority of U.S. counties, MA plan enrollment is highly concentrated in a small number of firms. Given the relative lack of competition in many markets as well as the potential impact on traditional Medicare, the authors call for careful consideration of a new system for setting MA plan payments.

  4. 48 CFR 245.7304 - Informal bid procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Inventory 245.7304 Informal bid procedures. (a) Upon approval of the plant clearance officer, the contractor...— (1) Maximum practical competition is maintained; (2) Sources solicited are recorded; and (3) Informal... plant clearance officer prior to soliciting bids from other prospective bidders. ...

  5. 47 CFR 27.806 - 1.4 GHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false 1.4 GHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding. 27.806 Section 27.806 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES 1.4 GHz Band § 27.806 1.4 GHz service...

  6. 47 CFR 27.806 - 1.4 GHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false 1.4 GHz service licenses subject to competitive bidding. 27.806 Section 27.806 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES 1.4 GHz Band § 27.806 1.4 GHz service...

  7. 77 FR 33235 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Sale of Public Lands in Becker County, MN

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-06-05

    ... bid is received or the sale is cancelled. Sealed bid envelopes must be clearly marked on the front lower left-hand corner with ``SEALED BID BLM LAND SALE, MNES-056512''. The bid envelope must contain a... of Land Management. Personal checks will not be accepted. Failure to submit the remainder of the full...

  8. 46 CFR Sec. 4 - Procedure for securing competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... not subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. (g) The Invitations for Bids shall also include a statement of the... Authority may orally contact as many qualified contractors as is feasible, in order to obtain written “Spot... contractor shall be verbally advised of a time and place for the submission of the “Spot Bids.” If such bids...

  9. 46 CFR Sec. 4 - Procedure for securing competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... not subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. (g) The Invitations for Bids shall also include a statement of the... Authority may orally contact as many qualified contractors as is feasible, in order to obtain written “Spot... contractor shall be verbally advised of a time and place for the submission of the “Spot Bids.” If such bids...

  10. 46 CFR Sec. 4 - Procedure for securing competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... not subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. (g) The Invitations for Bids shall also include a statement of the... Authority may orally contact as many qualified contractors as is feasible, in order to obtain written “Spot... contractor shall be verbally advised of a time and place for the submission of the “Spot Bids.” If such bids...

  11. 46 CFR Sec. 4 - Procedure for securing competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... not subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. (g) The Invitations for Bids shall also include a statement of the... Authority may orally contact as many qualified contractors as is feasible, in order to obtain written “Spot... contractor shall be verbally advised of a time and place for the submission of the “Spot Bids.” If such bids...

  12. 46 CFR Sec. 4 - Procedure for securing competitive bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... not subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. (g) The Invitations for Bids shall also include a statement of the... Authority may orally contact as many qualified contractors as is feasible, in order to obtain written “Spot... contractor shall be verbally advised of a time and place for the submission of the “Spot Bids.” If such bids...

  13. 32 CFR 274.8 - Bids-revocations-rejections-postponements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Bids-revocations-rejections-postponements. 274.8 Section 274.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY...

  14. 32 CFR 274.8 - Bids-revocations-rejections-postponements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Bids-revocations-rejections-postponements. 274.8 Section 274.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY...

  15. 76 FR 62330 - Radio Broadcasting Services; Alamo, GA; Alton, MO; Boscobel, WI; Buffalo, OK; Cove, AR; Clayton...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-10-07

    ... Broadcasting Services; Alamo, GA; Alton, MO; Boscobel, WI; Buffalo, OK; Cove, AR; Clayton, LA; Daisy, AR; Ennis... competitive bidding process, and are considered unsold permits that were included in Auction 91. Interested... competitive bidding process. DATES: Comments must be filed on or before October 31, 2011, and reply comments...

  16. 47 CFR 1.1181 - Authority to prescribe and collect fees for competitive bidding-related services and products.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Authority to prescribe and collect fees for... § 1.1181 Authority to prescribe and collect fees for competitive bidding-related services and products. Authority to prescribe, impose, and collect fees for expenses incurred by the government is governed by the...

  17. 78 FR 18527 - Implementation of Competitive Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-03-27

    ... FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Parts 1, 73 and 74 [MM Docket No. 97-234, GC Docket No. 92-52, and GEN Docket No. 90-264; FCC 98-194] Implementation of Competitive Bidding for Commercial... for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed Service Licenses, MM Docket No. 97- 234 et...

  18. Minority business bidding for local government contracts: the complexity of availability.

    PubMed

    Bangs, Ralph L; Murrell, Audrey; Constance-Huggins, Monique

    2007-01-01

    While minority-business enterprises (MBEs) have gained some access to local government contracts during the last three decades, these firms continue to receive a small share of local government contract spending relative to the number of available firms. Researchers have suggested two general explanations for the low representation of MBEs in contract awards: (1) lack of qualifications and capacity among MBEs, and (2) public and private discrimination against MBEs in contracting processes. This study on prime contract opportunities in a Northern central city and county with a large minority population finds that low bid rates greatly contribute to the low MBE shares of prime contracts and that bidding is reduced by both local government processes and characteristics of the firms. Some implications of these findings are that local governments need to: (1) monitor MBE shares of prime contract bids by size of contract and use share of bids as one measure of program and organizational effectiveness; (2) identify MBEs that are qualified for prime contracts and encourage and help interested firms to submit competitive bids; and (3) ensure that local government policies and practices do not diminish access to information about prime contract opportunities for qualified and interested minority firms. Another implication is that bidders lists should not be a primary basis for determining MBE availability, since many qualified and interested MBEs do not bid because of perceived barriers in local government.

  19. 32 CFR 274.6 - Submission of bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Submission of bids. 274.6 Section 274.6 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  20. 32 CFR 274.7 - Acceptance of bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Acceptance of bids. 274.7 Section 274.7 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  1. 32 CFR 274.7 - Acceptance of bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Acceptance of bids. 274.7 Section 274.7 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  2. 32 CFR 274.6 - Submission of bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Submission of bids. 274.6 Section 274.6 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  3. 47 CFR 101.1107 - Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs. 101.1107 Section 101.1107 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding...

  4. 47 CFR 101.1107 - Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs. 101.1107 Section 101.1107 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding...

  5. 47 CFR 101.1107 - Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs. 101.1107 Section 101.1107 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding...

  6. 47 CFR 101.1107 - Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Bidding credits for very small businesses, small businesses and entrepreneurs. 101.1107 Section 101.1107 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding...

  7. 42 CFR 414.410 - Phased-in implementation of competitive bidding programs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... variables: (1) The total population of an MSA. (2) The Medicare allowed charges for DMEPOS items per fee-for-service beneficiary in an MSA. (3) The total number of DMEPOS suppliers per fee-for-service beneficiary... area with low population density based on one or more of the following factors— (1) Low utilization of...

  8. 47 CFR 24.717 - Bidding credits for licenses for frequency Block F.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Block F. 24.717 Section 24.717 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for Broadband PCS § 24... closed bidding in auctions that begin after March 23, 1999, a winning bidder that qualifies as a small...

  9. 47 CFR 24.712 - Bidding credits for licenses won for frequency Block C.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Block C. 24.712 Section 24.712 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for Broadband PCS § 24... closed bidding in auctions that begin after March 23, 1999, a winning bidder that qualifies as a small...

  10. 32 CFR 274.5 - Notice of intent to bid.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Notice of intent to bid. 274.5 Section 274.5 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN...

  11. 32 CFR 274.5 - Notice of intent to bid.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Notice of intent to bid. 274.5 Section 274.5 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN...

  12. 7 CFR 1726.202 - Informal competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... persons or organizations on its qualified bidder list for the specific project (see § 1726.23). (b... a responsive bid. (d) Evaluation basis. Any factors, other than lowest dollar amount of the bid, which are to be considered in evaluating the proposals of qualified bidders (e.g., power consumption...

  13. 7 CFR 1753.8 - Contract construction procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... of all bids including “Buy American” evaluations, if any, and all other evaluations required by law... Contract construction procedures. (a) Sealed, competitive bidding—(1) Bid opening date. The borrower is responsible for scheduling the bid opening date. If RUS review of P&S is required by § 1753.7, the borrower...

  14. 42 CFR 423.251 - Scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ..., review, negotiation and approval of competitive bids for prescription drug plans and MA-PD plans; the calculation of the national average bid amount; and the determination of enrollee premiums. ...

  15. 78 FR 61380 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Sealed-Bid Sale of Public Land at Schoolhouse Butte...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-10-03

    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLNV930000.L14300000.EU0000 241A; N-85116; 13-08807; MO 4500053892; TAS: 14X5260] Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Sealed-Bid Sale of Public Land at Schoolhouse Butte (N-85116), Humboldt County, NV Correction In notice document 2013...

  16. A comparison of pay-as-bid and marginal pricing in electricity markets

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ren, Yongjun

    This thesis investigates the behaviour of electricity markets under marginal and pay-as-bid pricing. Marginal pricing is believed to yield the maximum social welfare and is currently implemented by most electricity markets. However, in view of recent electricity market failures, pay-as-bid has been extensively discussed as a possible alternative to marginal pricing. In this research, marginal and pay-as-bid pricing have been analyzed in electricity markets with both perfect and imperfect competition. The perfect competition case is studied under both exact and uncertain system marginal cost prediction. The comparison of the two pricing methods is conducted through two steps: (i) identify the best offer strategy of the generating companies (gencos); (ii) analyze the market performance under these optimum genco strategies. The analysis results together with numerical simulations show that pay-as-bid and marginal pricing are equivalent in a perfect market with exact system marginal cost prediction. In perfect markets with uncertain demand prediction, the two pricing methods are also equivalent but in an expected value sense. If we compare from the perspective of second order statistics, all market performance measures exhibit much lower values under pay-as-bid than under marginal pricing. The risk of deviating from the mean is therefore much higher under marginal pricing than under pay-as-bid. In an imperfect competition market with exact demand prediction, the research shows that pay-as-bid pricing yields lower consumer payments and lower genco profits. This research provides quantitative evidence that challenges some common claims about pay-as-bid pricing. One is that under pay-as-bid, participants would soon learn how to offer so as to obtain the same or higher profits than what they would have obtained under marginal pricing. This research however shows that, under pay-as-bid, participants can at best earn the same profit or expected profit as under marginal pricing. A second common claim refuted by this research is that pay-as-bid does not provide correct price signals if there is a scarcity of generation resources. We show that pay-as-bid does provide a price signal with such characteristics and furthermore argue that the price signal under marginal pricing with gaming may not necessarily be correct since it would then not reflect a lack of generation capacity but a desire to increase profit.

  17. "Changes in Purchasing Practices of School Insurances -- or, To Bid or not To Bid."

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Crockett, James E.

    This speech concentrates on a discussion of the increasing difficulty that school districts are experiencing in obtaining insurance coverage. The speaker offers school administrators some suggestions to assist them in securing the necessary coverage and suggests that when an insurance market is open and competitive, purchasing through bidding is…

  18. 30 CFR 256.32 - Notice of sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... bids shall be filed, and the place, date and hour at which bids shall be opened. The notice shall... conditions of the sale. (b) Tracts shall be offered for lease by competitive sealed bidding under conditions specified in the notice of lease sale and in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. A...

  19. 76 FR 16812 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Bid Sale of Public Land in Santa Clara County, CA

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-03-25

    ...: Modified Competitive Bid Sale of Public Land in Santa Clara County, CA AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management... County, California, for not less than the appraised fair market value of $41,000. The sale will be... proposed sale must be received by the BLM on or before May 9, 2011. The adjoining landowners have until 3 p...

  20. 42 CFR 414.410 - Phased-in implementation of competitive bidding programs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... largest MSAs by total population based on 2009 population estimates, and not already phased in as of June 1, 2008). CMS may subdivide any of the 91 MSAs with a population of greater than 8,000,000 into... population of less than 250,000. (iii) An area with low population density within an MSA not selected under...

  1. 42 CFR 414.410 - Phased-in implementation of competitive bidding programs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... largest MSAs by total population based on 2009 population estimates, and not already phased in as of June 1, 2008). CMS may subdivide any of the 91 MSAs with a population of greater than 8,000,000 into... population of less than 250,000. (iii) An area with low population density within an MSA not selected under...

  2. 42 CFR 414.410 - Phased-in implementation of competitive bidding programs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... additional 70 MSAs selected by CMS as of June 1, 2008, and the next 21 largest MSAs by total population based on 2009 population estimates, and not already phased in as of June 1, 2008). CMS may subdivide any of the 91 MSAs with a population of greater than 8,000,000 into separate CBAs, thereby resulting in more...

  3. 42 CFR 414.410 - Phased-in implementation of competitive bidding programs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... largest MSAs by total population based on 2009 population estimates, and not already phased in as of June 1, 2008). CMS may subdivide any of the 91 MSAs with a population of greater than 8,000,000 into... population of less than 250,000. (iii) An area with low population density within an MSA not selected under...

  4. Competition strength influences individual preferences in an auction game

    PubMed Central

    Toelch, Ulf; Jubera-Garcia, Esperanza; Kurth-Nelson, Zeb; Dolan, Raymond J.

    2014-01-01

    Competitive interactions between individuals are ubiquitous in human societies. Auctions represent an institutionalized context for these interactions, a context where individuals frequently make non-optimal decisions. In particular, competition in auctions can lead to overbidding, resulting in the so-called winner’s curse, often explained by invoking emotional arousal. In this study, we investigated an alternative possibility, namely that competitors’ bids are construed as a source of information about the good’s common value thereby influencing an individuals’ private value estimate. We tested this hypothesis by asking participants to bid in a repeated all-pay auction game for five different real items. Crucially, participants had to rank the auction items for their preference before and after the experiment. We observed a clear relation between auction dynamics and preference change. We found that low competition reduced preference while high competition increased preference. Our findings support a view that competitors’ bids in auction games are perceived as valid social signal for the common value of an item. We suggest that this influence of social information constitutes a major cause for the frequently observed deviations from optimality in auctions. PMID:25168161

  5. Bidding cost evaluation with fuzzy methods on building project in Jakarta

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Susetyo, Budi; Utami, Tin Budi

    2017-11-01

    National construction companies today demanded to become more competitive to face increasingly competition. Every construction company especially the contractor must work better than ever. Ability to prepare cost of the work that represents the efficiency and effectiveness of the implementation of the work necessary to produce cost - competitive. The project is considered successful if the target meets the quality, cost and time. From the aspect of cost, the project has been designed in accordance with certain technical criteria to be taken into account based on standard costs. To ensure the cost efficiency of the bidding process carried out meet the rules of a fairly and competitive. The research objective is to formulate the proper way to compare several deals with the standard cost of the work. The fuzzy technique is used as a evaluation methods to decision making. The evaluation not merely based on the lowest prices. The methods is looking for the most valuable and reasonable prices. The comparison is conducted to determine the most cost-competitive and reasonable as the winner of the bidding.

  6. 47 CFR 1.2204 - Applications to participate in competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... corporation, the name and address of the corporate office and the name and title of an officer or director. If..., if applicable. (2) The identity of the person(s) authorized to take binding action in the bidding on... submit reverse auction bids: (i) The identity of the station and its television channel; (ii) Whether it...

  7. 48 CFR 6.102 - Use of competitive procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... ACQUISITION PLANNING COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS Full and Open Competition 6.102 Use of competitive procedures. The competitive procedures available for use in fulfilling the requirement for full and open... procedures (e.g., two-step sealed bidding). (d) Other competitive procedures. (1) Selection of sources for...

  8. An analysis of competitive bidding by providers for indigent medical care contracts.

    PubMed Central

    Kirkman-Liff, B L; Christianson, J B; Hillman, D G

    1985-01-01

    This article develops a model of behavior in bidding for indigent medical care contracts in which bidders set bid prices to maximize their expected utility, conditional on estimates of variables which affect the payoff associated with winning or losing a contract. The hypotheses generated by this model are tested empirically using data from the first round of bidding in the Arizona indigent health care experiment. The behavior of bidding organizations in Arizona is found to be consistent in most respects with the predictions of the model. Bid prices appear to have been influenced by estimated costs and by expectations concerning the potential loss from not securing a contract, the initial wealth of the bidding organization, and the expected number of competitors in the bidding process. PMID:4086301

  9. 47 CFR 22.201 - Paging geographic area authorizations are subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive.... Mutually exclusive initial applications for paging geographic area licenses are subject to competitive...

  10. 77 FR 13142 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified-Competitive Sale of Public Land in Pahrump, Nye County, NV

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-03-05

    ... CFR 2711.3-1(f) and (g). Sealed bids will be presented for the sale parcel. Sealed-bid envelopes must.... Personal or company checks will not be accepted. The sealed-bid envelope shall also include a completed and... by presenting a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers. Failure to submit the above...

  11. Contracts for dispatchable power

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Kahn, E.P.; Stoft, S.; Marnay, C.

    1990-10-01

    Competitive bidding for electric power is maturing. Increasing numbers of utilities are soliciting proposals from private suppliers. The amount of capacity being sought is increasing, and potential suppliers appear to be abundant. Analysis of these developments still remains limited. Evidence on the behavior of this market is scarce and sketchy. The underlying economic principles that are shaping the market have not clearly been articulated. In this report we examine the economics of competitive bidding both empirically and analytically. Previous study of this market has focused on the evaluation criteria specified in Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and highly aggregated summary statisticsmore » on participation and results. We continue the examination of RFPs, but also survey the details of long term contracts that have emerged from competitive bidding. Contracts provide a new level of specific detail that has not been previously available. 68 refs., 13 figs., 25 tabs.« less

  12. 30 CFR 285.224 - What happens if MMS accepts my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.224 What happens if MMS accepts my bid? If we...

  13. Competition in decentralized electricity markets: Three papers on electricity auctions

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Harbord, David William Cameron

    This thesis consists of three self-contained papers on the analysis of electricity auctions written over a period of twelve years. The first paper models price competition in a decentralized wholesale market for electricity as a first-price, sealed-bid, multi-unit auction. In both the pure and mixed-strategy equilibria of the model, above marginal cost pricing and inefficient despatch of generating units occur. An alternative regulatory pricing rule is considered and it is shown that offering to supply at marginal cost can be induced as a dominant strategy for all firms. The second paper analyses strategic interaction between long-term contracts and price competition in the British electricity wholesale market, and confirms that forward contracts will tend to put downward pressure on spot market prices. A 'strategic commitment' motive for selling forward contracts is also identified: a generator may commit itself to bidding lower prices into the spot market in order to ensure that it will be despatched with its full capacity. The third paper characterizes bidding behavior and market outcomes in uniform and discriminatory electricity auctions. Uniform auctions result in higher average prices than discriminatory auctions, but the ranking in terms of productive efficiency is ambiguous. The comparative effects of other market design features, such as the number of steps in suppliers' bid functions, the duration of bids and the elasticity of demand are analyzed. The paper also clarifies some methodological issues in the analysis of electricity auctions. In particular we show that analogies with continuous share auctions are misplaced so long as firms are restricted to a finite number of bids.

  14. Research on bidding quotation game of international project

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Lin, Tao; Xu, Xin

    2017-04-01

    Bidding competition of international projects is more and more fierce currently. However, China started late relatively in the field, it is still lack of experience in the aspect of participation in bidding of international projects, and more effective bidding quotation system is not formed till present. Therefore, China can not win through systemic bidding quotation methods compared with many powerful bidding enterprises in the international field. Research on the field is also focused by many aspects as a result. It is urgent to solve related problems. Game theory is combined for analyzing the effectiveness and operability of bidding quotation models mainly based on current situation of bidding market in China international projects during research process in the paper. The research starts with the perspective of bidders for analyzing their game with tenderers and other bidders. The results have operational value aiming at bidders.

  15. Minimizing forced outage risk in generator bidding

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Das, Dibyendu

    Competition in power markets has exposed the participating companies to physical and financial uncertainties. Generator companies bid to supply power in a day-ahead market. Once their bids are accepted by the ISO they are bound to supply power. A random outage after acceptance of bids forces a generator to buy power from the expensive real-time hourly spot market and sell to the ISO at the set day-ahead market clearing price, incurring losses. A risk management technique is developed to assess this financial risk associated with forced outages of generators and then minimize it. This work presents a risk assessment module which measures the financial risk of generators bidding in an open market for different bidding scenarios. The day-ahead power market auction is modeled using a Unit Commitment algorithm and a combination of Normal and Cauchy distributions generate the real time hourly spot market. Risk profiles are derived and VaRs are calculated at 98 percent confidence level as a measure of financial risk. Risk Profiles and VaRs help the generators to analyze the forced outage risk and different factors affecting it. The VaRs and the estimated total earning for different bidding scenarios are used to develop a risk minimization module. This module will develop a bidding strategy of the generator company such that its estimated total earning is maximized keeping the VaR below a tolerable limit. This general framework of a risk management technique for the generating companies bidding in competitive day-ahead market can also help them in decisions related to building new generators.

  16. Doctrine and Elements of a Successful Coin Mentorship Protege Program

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-03-01

    performers for award of Blanket Purchase Agreements ( BPAs ). Concept: Pools of vendor competition at four (4) differing dollar thresholds. 91...until they reached Pool IV. These are identified as “Top Tier” and become eligible for BPAs and more demanding contracts. A losing bid or bad...companies. Background: Bagram RCC’s vendor database consists of approximately 120 contractors, of which 20 have active Blanket Purchase Agreements. BPAs

  17. TACtic- A Multi Behavioral Agent for Trading Agent Competition

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Khosravi, Hassan; Shiri, Mohammad E.; Khosravi, Hamid; Iranmanesh, Ehsan; Davoodi, Alireza

    Software agents are increasingly being used to represent humans in online auctions. Such agents have the advantages of being able to systematically monitor a wide variety of auctions and then make rapid decisions about what bids to place in what auctions. They can do this continuously and repetitively without losing concentration. To provide a means of evaluating and comparing (benchmarking) research methods in this area the trading agent competition (TAC) was established. This paper describes the design, of TACtic. Our agent uses multi behavioral techniques at the heart of its decision making to make bidding decisions in the face of uncertainty, to make predictions about the likely outcomes of auctions, and to alter the agent's bidding strategy in response to the prevailing market conditions.

  18. Competition in the economic crisis: Analysis of procurement auctions.

    PubMed

    Gugler, Klaus; Weichselbaumer, Michael; Zulehner, Christine

    2015-01-01

    We study the effects of the recent economic crisis on firms׳ bidding behavior and markups in sealed bid auctions. Using data from Austrian construction procurements, we estimate bidders׳ construction costs within a private value auction model. We find that markups of all bids submitted decrease by 1.5 percentage points in the recent economic crisis, markups of winning bids decrease by 3.3 percentage points. We also find that without the government stimulus package this decrease would have been larger. These two pieces of evidence point to pro-cyclical markups.

  19. New capacity bidding in Hungary

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Bakacs, I.

    The paper gives a description of the regulatory and legal fundamentals of the new capacity bidding launched in 1997 in Hungary by MVM Rt, the transmission system operator. Some details of the regulations relevant to new generating capacity licensing are discussed with regard to the implementation of the new formal competitive bidding for the right to establish new or retrofitted (repowered) generating capacity. The paper presents the major tender rules and conditions. The bidding has attracted considerable interest. Because of the confidentiality of information no details are given on individual Bidders or bids, only some general statistical information is available.more » Due to the unexpectedly large interest and number of bids in the first stage of the bidding closed in January 1998 and some other events MVM has to change slightly some of the tender rules for the second stage announced in February. Final bids should be submitted by September 1998.« less

  20. Purchasing Officers, Often Unappreciated, Point to Importance of Their Campus Role.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Heller, Scott

    1985-01-01

    College purchasing officers need to dispel their image as penny-pinchers looking for the low bid and purveyors of paperwork who keep employees from the products they want. With competitive bidding and consortium buying, universities have realized significant savings. (MLW)

  1. Advanced Contract Administration. Second Week

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1988-04-14

    circulation in the locality in which the property is located, when the results of such paid commercial advertising is expected to justify the additional...circumstances are present, invitations to bid may, with the approval of the plant clearance officer, be issued orally, by telephone or by other informal media , so...acceptable bids have been received as a result of competitive bidding under a suitably advertised sale; (C) when property is of such small value that the

  2. 40 CFR 30.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and basis for award cost or price. ..., HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement Standards § 30.46...

  3. 47 CFR 1.934 - Defective applications and dismissal.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... designated for comparative hearing; or (B) It is an application for which the applicant submitted the winning... has been designated for comparative hearing may submit a written petition requesting that the... submit the winning bid in a competitive bidding process; or (2) That receive comparative consideration in...

  4. 47 CFR 1.934 - Defective applications and dismissal.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... designated for comparative hearing; or (B) It is an application for which the applicant submitted the winning... has been designated for comparative hearing may submit a written petition requesting that the... submit the winning bid in a competitive bidding process; or (2) That receive comparative consideration in...

  5. 14 CFR 1260.146 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations Procurement Standards § 1260.146... of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  6. 15 CFR 14.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ... FOR GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, OTHER NON-PROFIT, AND...

  7. Biological auctions with multiple rewards

    PubMed Central

    Reiter, Johannes G.; Kanodia, Ayush; Gupta, Raghav; Nowak, Martin A.; Chatterjee, Krishnendu

    2015-01-01

    The competition for resources among cells, individuals or species is a fundamental characteristic of evolution. Biological all-pay auctions have been used to model situations where multiple individuals compete for a single resource. However, in many situations multiple resources with various values exist and single reward auctions are not applicable. We generalize the model to multiple rewards and study the evolution of strategies. In biological all-pay auctions the bid of an individual corresponds to its strategy and is equivalent to its payment in the auction. The decreasingly ordered rewards are distributed according to the decreasingly ordered bids of the participating individuals. The reproductive success of an individual is proportional to its fitness given by the sum of the rewards won minus its payments. Hence, successful bidding strategies spread in the population. We find that the results for the multiple reward case are very different from the single reward case. While the mixed strategy equilibrium in the single reward case with more than two players consists of mostly low-bidding individuals, we show that the equilibrium can convert to many high-bidding individuals and a few low-bidding individuals in the multiple reward case. Some reward values lead to a specialization among the individuals where one subpopulation competes for the rewards and the other subpopulation largely avoids costly competitions. Whether the mixed strategy equilibrium is an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) depends on the specific values of the rewards. PMID:26180069

  8. 24 CFR 291.205 - Competitive sales of individual properties.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... considered to have been received simultaneously. HUD may use either (or both) of these methods during the bid... considered as offers from investor purchasers. (2) Noncomplying bids will be returned to the broker with an explanation for the noncompliance decision and information about whether the property is still available. (h...

  9. 30 CFR 285.222 - What does MMS do with my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 285.222 Mineral Resources MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.222 What does MMS do with my bid? (a) If sealed...

  10. 77 FR 52616 - Connect America Fund

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-08-30

    ... combination of competitive bidding and a forward-looking cost model. The Commission observed that developing a new cost model and bidding mechanism could be expected to take some time. To spur broadband deployment... carriers using a formula to estimate wire center costs that was based on the prior high-cost proxy model. 3...

  11. 76 FR 72301 - Bidding by Affiliates in Open Seasons for Pipeline Capacity

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-23

    ... contains regulatory documents #0;having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed #0.... The Commission explained that some entities had developed and applied a strategy of bidding with... pro rata allocation mechanism has a chilling effect on competition and permits entities that apply a...

  12. Marginal Bidding: An Application of the Equimarginal Principle to Bidding in TAC SCM

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Greenwald, Amy; Naroditskiy, Victor; Odean, Tyler; Ramirez, Mauricio; Sodomka, Eric; Zimmerman, Joe; Cutler, Clark

    We present a fast and effective bidding strategy for the Trading Agent Competition in Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM). In TAC SCM, manufacturers compete to procure computer parts from suppliers (the procurement problem), and then sell assembled computers to customers in reverse auctions (the bidding problem). This paper is concerned only with bidding, in which an agent must decide how many computers to sell and at what prices to sell them. We propose a greedy solution, Marginal Bidding, inspired by the Equimarginal Principle, which states that revenue is maximized among possible uses of a resource when the return on the last unit of the resource is the same across all areas of use. We show experimentally that certain variations of Marginal Bidding can compute bids faster than our ILP solution, which enables Marginal Bidders to consider future demand as well as current demand, and hence achieve greater revenues when knowledge of the future is valuable.

  13. 36 CFR 1210.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement Standards...) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  14. 2 CFR 215.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS (OMB CIRCULAR A-110) Post Award Requirements Procurement Standards § 215.46... of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  15. 22 CFR 145.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement Standards § 145... for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) basis for award cost or price. ...

  16. 43 CFR 12.946 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... With Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations Post-Award...) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  17. 24 CFR 84.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement Standards § 84... for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  18. 7 CFR 550.48 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... AGRICULTURE GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY FOR NON-ASSISTANCE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS Management of Agreements... selection; (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  19. 32 CFR 32.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement Standards § 32.46... for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  20. Integrating market processes into utility resource planning

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Kahn, E.P.

    1992-11-01

    Integrated resource planning has resulted in an abundance of alternatives for meeting existing and new demand for electricity services: (1) utility demand-side management (DSM) programs, (2) DSM bidding, (3) competitive bidding for private power supplies, (4) utility re-powering, and (5) new utility construction. Each alternative relies on a different degree of planning for implementation and, therefore, each alternative relies on markets to a greater or lesser degree. This paper shows how the interaction of planning processes and market forces results in resource allocations among the alternatives. The discussion focuses on three phenomena that are driving forces behind the unanticipated consequences'more » of contemporary integrated resource planning efforts. These forces are: (1) large-scale DSM efforts, (2) customer bypass, and (3) large-scale independent power projects. 22 refs., 3 figs., 2 tabs.« less

  1. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Haspel, A.E.

    The program for leasing federal lands for oil and gas drilling brought the federal government over $1 billion in revenues in 1983 from lands that are estimated to contain one-sixth of the country's undiscovered oil and gas resources. In a policy debate over the leasing program, all parties agree that leasing should occur, but differ in how it should be done. The author reviews the two systems followed for onshore leases: a lottery system for parcels with proven oil and gas reserves and a first-come first-served basis for other parcels. Policy debate over the years has focused on the lossmore » of revenue from not using the lottery ticket sales for all leases and the need to increase competitive bidding. The author proposes a flexible multi-tier system that combines competitive and noncompetitive leasing in a way that will increase production and revenues.« less

  2. Evaluation of Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, 1984-85

    PubMed Central

    McCall, Nelda; Henton, Douglas; Haber, Susan; Paringer, Lynn; Crane, Michael; Wrightson, William; Freund, Deborah

    1987-01-01

    In this article, we describe the evaluation of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona's alternative to the acute care portion of Medicaid. We provide an assessment of implementation of the program's innovative features during its second 18 months of operation, from April 1984 through September 1985. Included in the evaluation are assessments of the administration of the program, provider relations, eligibility, enrollment and marketing, information systems, quality assurance and member satisfaction activities, the relationship of the county governments to AHCCCS, the competitive bidding process, and the plans and their financial status. PMID:10312395

  3. 30 CFR 585.222 - What does BOEM do with my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 585.222 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.222 What does BOEM do with my bid? (a) If...

  4. 30 CFR 585.224 - What happens if BOEM accepts my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... Section 585.224 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.224 What happens if BOEM accepts my bid? If we...

  5. 30 CFR 585.224 - What happens if BOEM accepts my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... Section 585.224 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.224 What happens if BOEM accepts my bid? If we...

  6. 30 CFR 585.224 - What happens if BOEM accepts my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... Section 585.224 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.224 What happens if BOEM accepts my bid? If we...

  7. 30 CFR 585.222 - What does BOEM do with my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 585.222 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.222 What does BOEM do with my bid? (a) If...

  8. 30 CFR 285.223 - What does MMS do if there is a tie for the highest bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... highest bid? 285.223 Section 285.223 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285...

  9. 30 CFR 585.222 - What does BOEM do with my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 585.222 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.222 What does BOEM do with my bid? (a) If...

  10. 43 CFR 3141.6-3 - Conduct of sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Conduct of sales. 3141.6-3 Section 3141.6... Tar Sand Areas § 3141.6-3 Conduct of sales. (a) Combined Hydrocarbon Leases. (1) Competitive sales... all bids. (5) The authorized officer may waive minor deficiencies in the bids or the lease sale...

  11. 43 CFR 3141.6-3 - Conduct of sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Conduct of sales. 3141.6-3 Section 3141.6... Tar Sand Areas § 3141.6-3 Conduct of sales. (a) Combined Hydrocarbon Leases. (1) Competitive sales... all bids. (5) The authorized officer may waive minor deficiencies in the bids or the lease sale...

  12. 43 CFR 3141.6-3 - Conduct of sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Conduct of sales. 3141.6-3 Section 3141.6... Tar Sand Areas § 3141.6-3 Conduct of sales. (a) Combined Hydrocarbon Leases. (1) Competitive sales... all bids. (5) The authorized officer may waive minor deficiencies in the bids or the lease sale...

  13. 36 CFR 222.54 - Grazing fees in the East-competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... permit to be issued, as well as document existing improvements and their condition. The prospectus shall...; (ii) The minimum bid price the agency will accept; (iii) Any required range improvements; and (iv) The... improvements. This hay price index shall be based on 3-year average hay prices and annually reflect the percent...

  14. 36 CFR 222.54 - Grazing fees in the East-competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... permit to be issued, as well as document existing improvements and their condition. The prospectus shall...; (ii) The minimum bid price the agency will accept; (iii) Any required range improvements; and (iv) The... improvements. This hay price index shall be based on 3-year average hay prices and annually reflect the percent...

  15. 22 CFR 518.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award... selection, (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  16. 41 CFR 105-72.506 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 72.50-Post-Award Requirements/Procurement Standards...) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  17. 49 CFR 19.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award... selection, (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  18. Preliminary Study on Bidding Price Ratio Pattern of Public Works in Taiwan - a Case Study of Bridges, Elevated Highways, Tunnels and Subways

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Tseng, Paoshan; Wang, Hanhsiang; Chen, Pingfu; Yeh, Lihsu

    2018-01-01

    Commonly seen tender bid price information of the public works in Taiwan are the budget amount, floor price, awarding price and so on. The ratio of the awarding price to the floor price or budget price is the so-called bidding price ratio. This ratio is influenced by multifaceted factor interactions and is significant to decision making management in engineering projects. Low bidding price ratio may imply that the budget allocation by the tendering agency is inconsiderate or due to the improper market competition of low price bid rigging. High bidding price ratio in turn may indicate that the allocated budget is relatively low, bidder risks in increased contract execution uncertainty or even exclusive bidding scenario. Therefore, the correlation between the bidding price ratio and the aforementioned tender award information is the key issue of this study. This study gathered the tender information of the civil engineering projects in Taiwan within the past seven years. By performing statistical analysis and clustering the gathered data by bidding price ratio, this study investigated the influencing factors and regulations of bidding price ratio using data mining approach.

  19. 30 CFR 585.223 - What does BOEM do if there is a tie for the highest bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... highest bid? 585.223 Section 585.223 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.223 What does...

  20. 30 CFR 585.223 - What does BOEM do if there is a tie for the highest bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... highest bid? 585.223 Section 585.223 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.223 What does...

  1. 30 CFR 585.223 - What does BOEM do if there is a tie for the highest bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... highest bid? 585.223 Section 585.223 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.223 What does...

  2. 76 FR 10062 - Notice of Single Family Loan Sales (SFLS 2011-1)

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-02-23

    ... determine the successful bid, in terms of the best value to HUD, in its sole and absolute discretion. If a... Sales (SFLS 2011-1) AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner... insurance, in a series of competitive, sealed bid sales, commencing with the first sale offering (SFLS 2011...

  3. 75 FR 9946 - United States v. Keyspan Corporation; Proposed Final Judgment and Competitive Impact Statement

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-03-04

    ... the market. This ``bid the cap'' strategy would keep market prices high, but at a significant cost... its best strategy during the 2006-2009 period. The ``bid the cap'' strategy would keep market prices... financial services company, the likely effect of which was to increase prices in the New York City (NYISO...

  4. Courage under Fire: Duval County's School Board Chair Faces a Major Leadership Challenge

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fossey, Richard; Jenkins, Lynn

    2011-01-01

    This case set in Jacksonville, Florida, covers the years 1998 to 2001. A new nontraditional superintendent, Major General John C. Fryer, focuses on student achievement, but financial needs and Florida law require him to bid contracts for student transportation, upsetting a 50-year pattern of contracting without competitive bidding with more than…

  5. 38 CFR 49.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement Standards § 49.46... of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. (Authority: Pub. L. 104-156; 110 Stat. 1396) ...

  6. 45 CFR 2543.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SERVICE GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT...: (a) Basis for contractor selection; (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  7. Profiting from competition: Financial tools for electric generation companies

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Richter, Charles William, Jr.

    Regulations governing the operation of electric power systems in North America and many other areas of the world are undergoing major changes designed to promote competition. This process of change is often referred to as deregulation. Participants in deregulated electricity systems may find that their profits will greatly benefit from the implementation of successful bidding strategies. While the goal of the regulators may be to create rules which balance reliable power system operation with maximization of the total benefit to society, the goal of generation companies is to maximize their profit, i.e., return to their shareholders. The majority of the research described here is conducted from the point of view of generation companies (GENCOs) wishing to maximize their expected utility function, which is generally comprised of expected profit and risk. Strategies that help a GENCO to maximize its objective function must consider the impact of (and aid in making) operating decisions that may occur within a few seconds to multiple years. The work described here assumes an environment in which energy service companies (ESCOs) buy and GENCOs sell power via double auctions in regional commodity exchanges. Power is transported on wires owned by transmission companies (TRANSCOs) and distribution companies (DISTCOs). The proposed market framework allows participants to trade electrical energy contracts via the spot, futures, options, planning, and swap markets. An important method of studying these proposed markets and the behavior of participating agents is the field of experimental/computational economics. For much of the research reported here, the market simulator developed by Kumar and Sheble and similar simulators has been adapted to allow computerized agents to trade energy. Creating computerized agents that can react as rationally or irrationally as a human trader is a difficult problem for which we have turned to the field of artificial intelligence. Some of our work uses GP-Automata, a technique which combines genetic programming and finite state machines, to represent adaptive agents. We use a genetic algorithm to evolve these adaptive agents (each with its own bidding strategy) for use in a double auction. The agent's strategies may be judged by the amount of profit they produce and are tested by computerized agents repeatedly buying and selling electricity in an auction simulator. In addition to the obvious profit-maximization strategies, one can also design strategies which exhibit other types of trading behaviors. The resulting strategies can be used directly in on-line trading, or as realistic models of competitors in a trading simulator. In addition to developing double auction bidding strategies, we investigate and discuss methods of an energy trader's risk. This can be done using such financial vehicles as futures and options contracts or through the inclusion of risk while judging strategies used in the market simulations described above. We discuss the role of fuzzy logic in the competitive electric marketplace, including how it can be applied in developing bidding strategies. Since competition promises to drive the power system closer to its operating limits, improvements in measurement and system control will be important. We provide an example of using fuzzy logic to do automatic generation control and discuss extensions that would make it superior to traditional controllers. Since the GENCO's forte is primarily generating electricity, we examine unit commitment and discuss how to update it for the competitive environment. We discuss the role of unit commitment in developing bidding strategies, as well as, the role of bidding strategies in solving the unit commitment problem. Depending on the market structure adopted by a particular location, large amounts of bidding data may be available to regulators or market participants. Ideally, regulators could use this data to verify dig the market is efficient. Market participants with access to this data might gain an advantage over their competitors if they could somehow determine their competitor's bidding strategy. We outline methods of automatically inferring other participants' trading rules based on historical data. Much of the work described here should aid in the design of effective operating procedures, trading strategies and profitable portfolios for energy producers.

  8. The Competitive Interplay between Allosteric HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor BI/D and LEDGF/p75 during the Early Stage of HIV-1 Replication Adversely Affects Inhibitor Potency.

    PubMed

    Feng, Lei; Dharmarajan, Venkatasubramanian; Serrao, Erik; Hoyte, Ashley; Larue, Ross C; Slaughter, Alison; Sharma, Amit; Plumb, Matthew R; Kessl, Jacques J; Fuchs, James R; Bushman, Frederic D; Engelman, Alan N; Griffin, Patrick R; Kvaratskhelia, Mamuka

    2016-05-20

    Allosteric HIV-1 integrase inhibitors (ALLINIs) have recently emerged as a promising class of antiretroviral agents and are currently in clinical trials. In infected cells, ALLINIs potently inhibit viral replication by impairing virus particle maturation but surprisingly exhibit a reduced EC50 for inhibiting HIV-1 integration in target cells. To better understand the reduced antiviral activity of ALLINIs during the early stage of HIV-1 replication, we investigated the competitive interplay between a potent representative ALLINI, BI/D, and LEDGF/p75 with HIV-1 integrase. While the principal binding sites of BI/D and LEDGF/p75 overlap at the integrase catalytic core domain dimer interface, we show that the inhibitor and the cellular cofactor induce markedly different multimerization patterns of full-length integrase. LEDGF/p75 stabilizes an integrase tetramer through the additional interactions with the integrase N-terminal domain, whereas BI/D induces protein-protein interactions in C-terminal segments that lead to aberrant, higher-order integrase multimerization. We demonstrate that LEDGF/p75 binds HIV-1 integrase with significantly higher affinity than BI/D and that the cellular protein is able to reverse the inhibitor induced aberrant, higher-order integrase multimerization in a dose-dependent manner in vitro. Consistent with these observations, alterations of the cellular levels of LEDGF/p75 markedly affected BI/D EC50 values during the early steps of HIV-1 replication. Furthermore, genome-wide sequencing of HIV-1 integration sites in infected cells demonstrate that LEDGF/p75-dependent integration site selection is adversely affected by BI/D treatment. Taken together, our studies elucidate structural and mechanistic details of the interplay between LEDGF/p75 and BI/D during the early stage of HIV-1 replication.

  9. 47 CFR 80.1252 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Designated entities. 80.1252 Section 80.1252... MARITIME SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures § 80.1252 Designated entities. (a) This section addresses certain issues concerning designated entities in maritime communications services subject to competitive...

  10. 47 CFR 80.1252 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Designated entities. 80.1252 Section 80.1252... MARITIME SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures § 80.1252 Designated entities. (a) This section addresses certain issues concerning designated entities in maritime communications services subject to competitive...

  11. 45 CFR 1634.1 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... legal services. The purposes of such a competitive system are to: (a) Encourage the effective and... Services to the Poor through an integrated system of legal services providers; (b) Provide opportunities... Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS...

  12. 75 FR 55347 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Land Near Aztec in San Juan County, NM

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-09-10

    ... city limits in San Juan County, New Mexico. The sale will be subject to the applicable provisions of... sealed bids equal to or greater than the appraised fair market value of the land. Bidders who submit..., Suite A, Farmington, New Mexico 87401. Sealed bids must also be submitted to this address. Supplemental...

  13. 48 CFR 6.302-6 - National security.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS Other Than Full and Open Competition 6.302-6 National security. (a) Authority. (1) Citations: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(6) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(6). (2) Full and open competition need not be provided... is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals. (b) Application...

  14. 7 CFR 1780.72 - Procurement methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 12 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Procurement methods. 1780.72 Section 1780.72..., Constructing and Inspections § 1780.72 Procurement methods. Procurement shall be made by one of the following methods: Small purchase procedures; competitive sealed bids (formal advertising); competitive negotiation...

  15. 7 CFR 1780.72 - Procurement methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 12 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Procurement methods. 1780.72 Section 1780.72..., Constructing and Inspections § 1780.72 Procurement methods. Procurement shall be made by one of the following methods: Small purchase procedures; competitive sealed bids (formal advertising); competitive negotiation...

  16. 7 CFR 1780.72 - Procurement methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 12 2014-01-01 2013-01-01 true Procurement methods. 1780.72 Section 1780.72..., Constructing and Inspections § 1780.72 Procurement methods. Procurement shall be made by one of the following methods: Small purchase procedures; competitive sealed bids (formal advertising); competitive negotiation...

  17. 7 CFR 1780.72 - Procurement methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 12 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Procurement methods. 1780.72 Section 1780.72..., Constructing and Inspections § 1780.72 Procurement methods. Procurement shall be made by one of the following methods: Small purchase procedures; competitive sealed bids (formal advertising); competitive negotiation...

  18. 7 CFR 1780.72 - Procurement methods.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 12 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Procurement methods. 1780.72 Section 1780.72..., Constructing and Inspections § 1780.72 Procurement methods. Procurement shall be made by one of the following methods: Small purchase procedures; competitive sealed bids (formal advertising); competitive negotiation...

  19. 14 CFR 1274.507 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 5 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Procurement records. 1274.507 Section 1274.507 Aeronautics and Space NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH...) Basis for contractor selection. (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or...

  20. 28 CFR 70.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... AND AGREEMENTS (INCLUDING SUBAWARDS) WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS AND OTHER NON... following at a minimum: (a) Basis for contractor selection, (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ...

  1. Models for electricity market efficiency and bidding strategy analysis

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Niu, Hui

    This dissertation studies models for the analysis of market efficiency and bidding behaviors of market participants in electricity markets. Simulation models are developed to estimate how transmission and operational constraints affect the competitive benchmark and market prices based on submitted bids. This research contributes to the literature in three aspects. First, transmission and operational constraints, which have been neglected in most empirical literature, are considered in the competitive benchmark estimation model. Second, the effects of operational and transmission constraints on market prices are estimated through two models based on the submitted bids of market participants. Third, these models are applied to analyze the efficiency of the Electric Reliability Council Of Texas (ERCOT) real-time energy market by simulating its operations for the time period from January 2002 to April 2003. The characteristics and available information for the ERCOT market are considered. In electricity markets, electric firms compete through both spot market bidding and bilateral contract trading. A linear asymmetric supply function equilibrium (SFE) model with transmission constraints is proposed in this dissertation to analyze the bidding strategies with forward contracts. The research contributes to the literature in several aspects. First, we combine forward contracts, transmission constraints, and multi-period strategy (an obligation for firms to bid consistently over an extended time horizon such as a day or an hour) into the linear asymmetric supply function equilibrium framework. As an ex-ante model, it can provide qualitative insights into firms' behaviors. Second, the bidding strategies related to Transmission Congestion Rights (TCRs) are discussed by interpreting TCRs as linear combination of forwards. Third, the model is a general one in the sense that there is no limitation on the number of firms and scale of the transmission network, which can have asymmetric linear marginal cost structures. In addition to theoretical analysis, we apply our model to simulate the ERCOT real-time market from January 2002 to April 2003. The effects of forward contracts on the ERCOT market are evaluated through the results. It is shown that the model is able to capture features of bidding behavior in the market.

  2. The wisdom of the crowd playing The Price Is Right.

    PubMed

    Lee, Michael D; Zhang, Shunan; Shi, Jenny

    2011-07-01

    In The Price Is Right game show, players compete to win a prize, by placing bids on its price. We ask whether it is possible to achieve a "wisdom of the crowd" effect, by combining the bids to produce an aggregate price estimate that is superior to the estimates of individual players. Using data from the game show, we show that a wisdom of the crowd effect is possible, especially by using models of the decision-making processes involved in bidding. The key insight is that, because of the competitive nature of the game, what people bid is not necessarily the same as what they know. This means better estimates are formed by aggregating latent knowledge than by aggregating observed bids. We use our results to highlight the usefulness of models of cognition and decision-making in studying the wisdom of the crowd, which are often approached only from non-psychological statistical perspectives.

  3. 76 FR 44355 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Land in Carson City, NV

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-07-25

    ...'' for not less than 10 percent of the amount of the bid and must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with...'') written on the lower front left-hand corner of the envelope. The highest qualifying bidder for each sale... until the BLM officially accepts the offer to purchase and the full bid price is paid. Failure to pay...

  4. 34 CFR 74.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements... selection; (b) Justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained; (c) Basis for award cost or price. (Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number...

  5. Neural correlates of reinforcement learning and social preferences in competitive bidding.

    PubMed

    van den Bos, Wouter; Talwar, Arjun; McClure, Samuel M

    2013-01-30

    In competitive social environments, people often deviate from what rational choice theory prescribes, resulting in losses or suboptimal monetary gains. We investigate how competition affects learning and decision-making in a common value auction task. During the experiment, groups of five human participants were simultaneously scanned using MRI while playing the auction task. We first demonstrate that bidding is well characterized by reinforcement learning with biased reward representations dependent on social preferences. Indicative of reinforcement learning, we found that estimated trial-by-trial prediction errors correlated with activity in the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Additionally, we found that individual differences in social preferences were related to activity in the temporal-parietal junction and anterior insula. Connectivity analyses suggest that monetary and social value signals are integrated in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and striatum. Based on these results, we argue for a novel mechanistic account for the integration of reinforcement history and social preferences in competitive decision-making.

  6. 76 FR 37373 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Lands in Colusa, Glenn, and Lake Counties...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-06-27

    ...] Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Lands in Colusa, Glenn, and Lake Counties, California... Colusa, Glenn, and Lake Counties, California. The sale will be conducted as a competitive bid auction in... market value of the land. DATES: Comments regarding the proposed sale must be received by the BLM on or...

  7. 47 CFR 1.2201 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse Auction § 1.2201 Purpose. The provisions of §§ 1.2200 through 1.2209 implement section 6403 of the Spectrum Act, which requires the Commission... spectrum usage rights in order to make spectrum available for assignment through a system of competitive...

  8. 47 CFR 54.503 - Competitive bidding requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Technology Act of 1996 do not operate as for-profit businesses and whose budgets are completely separate from... competition or would furnish the service provider with inside information; someone other than the applicant or... minimum, the following information, to the extent applicable with respect to the services requested: (i) A...

  9. 48 CFR 2903.104-5 - Disclosure, protection, and marking of contractor bid or proposal information and source...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... or cost proposal under other competitive procedures, and personnel evaluating protests. (2) Personnel...) Supervisors, at any level, of the personnel listed in this paragraph (a). (b) The originator of information... capabilities of potential competitive sources (see FAR 7.1 and FAR 10). ...

  10. Product costing practices in the North American hardwood component industry

    Treesearch

    Adrienn Andersch; Urs Buehlmann; Jan Wiedenbeck; Steve Lawser

    2011-01-01

    Companies, when bidding for jobs, need to be able to price products competitively while also assuring that the necessary profitability can be achieved. These goals, competitive pricing and profitability, cannot be reliably achieved unless industry participants possess a full understanding of their company's cost structure. Competitors blame companies without...

  11. 29 CFR 95.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Secretary of Labor GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON..., (b) justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) basis for award cost or price. [59 FR 38271, July 27, 1994, as amended at 72 FR 37104, July 9, 2007] ...

  12. 7 CFR 1435.605 - Competitive procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... § 1435.605 Competitive procedures. (a) CCC will generally issue tenders for bids, before entering into... the least cost to CCC of removing sugar from the market. (b) CCC may, at times, negotiate contracts directly with sellers or buyers, if CCC determines that such negotiation will result in either reduced...

  13. Schoolhouse Systems Project: SSP. 3rd Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee.

    This brochure provides statistical bid breakdown for Programs 1A and 2 of the Florida Schoolhouse Systems Project. Tabular information is provided on bidders, compatible building subsystems, bid tabulation by compatibility, "per school" building subsystems, nominated bidders and lump sums, and a comparison of programs 1A and 2 bids. Data…

  14. Medicare+Choice: what lies ahead?

    PubMed

    Layne, R Jeffrey

    2002-03-01

    Health plans have continued to exit the Medicare+Choice program in recent years, despite efforts of Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reform the program. Congress and CMS therefore stand poised to make additional, substantial reforms to the program. CMS has proposed to consolidate its oversight of the program, extend the due date for Medicare+Choice plans to file their adjusted community rate proposals, revise risk-adjustment processes, streamline the marketing review process, enhance quality-improvement requirements, institute results based performance assessment audits, coordinate policy changes to coincide with contracting cycles, expand its fall advertising campaign for the program, provide better employer-based Medicare options for beneficiaries, and take steps to minimize beneficiary costs. Congressional leaders have proposed various legislative remedies to improve the program, including creation of an entirely new pricing structure for the program based on a competitive bidding process.

  15. Multiagent model and mean field theory of complex auction dynamics

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Chen, Qinghua; Huang, Zi-Gang; Wang, Yougui; Lai, Ying-Cheng

    2015-09-01

    Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in analyzing a variety of socio-economic phenomena using methods from statistical and nonlinear physics. We study a class of complex systems arising from economics, the lowest unique bid auction (LUBA) systems, which is a recently emerged class of online auction game systems. Through analyzing large, empirical data sets of LUBA, we identify a general feature of the bid price distribution: an inverted J-shaped function with exponential decay in the large bid price region. To account for the distribution, we propose a multi-agent model in which each agent bids stochastically in the field of winner’s attractiveness, and develop a theoretical framework to obtain analytic solutions of the model based on mean field analysis. The theory produces bid-price distributions that are in excellent agreement with those from the real data. Our model and theory capture the essential features of human behaviors in the competitive environment as exemplified by LUBA, and may provide significant quantitative insights into complex socio-economic phenomena.

  16. 48 CFR 19.202-3 - Equal low bids.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... PROGRAMS SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS Policies 19.202-3 Equal low bids. In the event of equal low bids (see 14.408-6), awards shall be made first to small business concerns which are also labor surplus area concerns, and second to small business concerns which are not also labor surplus area concerns. [60 FR...

  17. Automated Demand Response for Energy Sustainability

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-05-01

    project’s stated performance objectives. Emerging opportunities to participate in wholesale electricity markets can provide important economic, energy, and...Response in Wholesale Electricity Markets ..................................................... 7 Figure 5. Demand Bidding Communication and Control...resource in response to market or reliability conditions Demand Bidding Program DR programs that encourage customers to bid into an electricity market

  18. A Sequence Mining Method to Predict the Bidding Strategy of Trading Agents

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Nikolaidou, Vivia; Mitkas, Pericles A.

    In this work, we describe the process used in order to predict the bidding strategy of trading agents. This was done in the context of the Reverse TAC, or CAT, game of the Trading Agent Competition. In this game, a set of trading agents, buyers or sellers, are provided by the server and they trade their goods in one of the markets operated by the competing agents. Better knowledge of the strategy of the trading agents will allow a market maker to adapt its incentives and attract more agents to its own market. Our prediction was based on the time series of the traders’ past bids, taking into account the variation of each bid compared to its history. The results proved to be of satisfactory accuracy, both in the game’s context and when compared to other existing approaches.

  19. 45 CFR 1634.5 - Identification of qualified applicants for grants and contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.5 Identification of... applicants who may submit a notice of intent to compete and an application to participate in the competitive... furnishing of legal assistance to eligible clients; (3) Private attorneys, groups of attorneys or law firms...

  20. 45 CFR 1634.5 - Identification of qualified applicants for grants and contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ...) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.5 Identification of... applicants who may submit a notice of intent to compete and an application to participate in the competitive... furnishing of legal assistance to eligible clients; (3) Private attorneys, groups of attorneys or law firms...

  1. The effect of increased private sector involvement in solid waste collection in five cities in Ghana.

    PubMed

    Oduro-Kwarteng, Sampson; van Dijk, Meine Pieter

    2013-10-01

    Private sector involvement in solid waste management in developing countries has increased, but the effect is not always clear. This study assesses how it has been organized in five cities in Ghana, what has been its effect and what lessons for private sector development in developing countries can be drawn. Data were collected from 25 private companies and a sample of 1200 households. More than 60% of solid waste in Ghanaian cities is now collected by private enterprises. Sometimes, and increasingly, competitive bidding takes place, although sometimes no bidding is organized leading to rendering of this service and no contract being signed. Local governments and local solid waste companies have not changed to more customer-oriented delivery because of the slow pace of charging users and the resulting low rate of cost recovery. The participation of the population has been limited, which contributes to low cost recovery. However, a gradual better functioning of the system put in place is shown. We observed an increasing use of competitive bidding, signing of contracts and city-wide user charging.

  2. When winning is everything.

    PubMed

    Malhotra, Deepak; Ku, Gillian; Murnighan, J Keith

    2008-05-01

    In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal and the harm it can inflict by avoiding certain types of interaction and targeting the causes of a win-at-all-costs approach to decision making. Through an examination of companies such as Boston Scientific and Paramount, and through research on auctions, the authors identified three principal drivers of competitive arousal: intense rivalry, especially in the form of one-on-one competitions; time pressure, found in auctions and other bidding situations, for example; and being in the spotlight--that is, working in the presence of an audience. Individually, these factors can seriously impair managerial decision making; together, their consequences can be dire, as evidenced by many high-profile business disasters. It's not possible to avoid destructive competitions and bidding wars completely. But managers can help prevent competitive arousal by anticipating potentially harmful competitive dynamics and then restructuring the deal-making process. They can also stop irrational competitive behavior from escalating by addressing the causes of competitive arousal. When rivalry is intense, for instance, managers can limit the roles of those who feel it most. They can reduce time pressure by extending or eliminating arbitrary deadlines. And they can deflect the spotlight by spreading the responsibility for critical competitive decisions among team members. Decision makers will be most successful when they focus on winning contests in which they have a real advantage--and take a step back from those in which winning exacts too high a cost.

  3. 48 CFR 245.7307-2 - Justification.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... terminated research and development contracts with educational institutions; (2) No acceptable bids received under an advertised competitive sale; (3) Property value so small that anticipated proceeds would not...

  4. NDI Acquisition. An Alternative to Business as Usual. Report of the DSMC 1991-1992 Military Research Fellows

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1992-10-01

    sealed bidding and competitive proposals. governed by the same regulations and laws The sealed bidding procedure requires ade- that govern procurement ...Summary xiv NDI ACQUISITION: An Alternative to "Business as Usual" to successful, effective government procure - posal Cover Sheet). Moreover, the...became policy when the OPlP ;,;sued the first opment costs. These benefits may be offset by in a series of memoranda governing procure - performance

  5. 40 CFR 35.6555 - Competition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... engineering (A/E) services, the recipient may use geographic location as a selection criterion, provided that... bids or proposals. The recipient must publish the public notice in professional journals, newspapers...

  6. 40 CFR 35.6555 - Competition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... engineering (A/E) services, the recipient may use geographic location as a selection criterion, provided that... bids or proposals. The recipient must publish the public notice in professional journals, newspapers...

  7. 40 CFR 35.6555 - Competition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... engineering (A/E) services, the recipient may use geographic location as a selection criterion, provided that... bids or proposals. The recipient must publish the public notice in professional journals, newspapers...

  8. 40 CFR 35.938-9 - Subcontracts under construction contracts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... OTHER FEDERAL ASSISTANCE STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE Grants for Construction of Treatment Works-Clean... prime contractor under a formally advertised, competitively bid, fixed price construction contract...

  9. 7 CFR 1435.502 - Bid selection procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... OF AGRICULTURE LOANS, PURCHASES, AND OTHER OPERATIONS SUGAR PROGRAM Processor Sugar Payment-In-Kind... acreage of sugar beets or sugarcane from production, CCC will rank bids on the basis of the bid amount as a percentage of the expected sugar produced from the retired acreage. Bids with the lowest of such...

  10. Applications of Classifying Bidding Strategies for the CAT Tournament

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gruman, Mark L.; Narayana, Manjunath

    In the CAT Tournament, specialists facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers with the intention of maximizing profit from commission and other fees. Each specialist must find a well-balanced strategy that allows it to entice buyers and sellers to trade in its market while also retaining the buyers and sellers that are currently subscribed to it. Classification techniques can be used to determine the distribution of bidding strategies used by all traders subscribed to a particular specialist. Our experiments showed that Hidden Markov Model classification yielded the best results. The distribution of strategies, along with other competition-related factors, can be used to determine the optimal action in any given game state. Experimental data shows that the GD and ZIP bidding strategies are more volatile than the RE and ZIC strategies. An MDP framework for determining optimal actions given an accurate distribution of bidding strategies is proposed as a motivator for future work.

  11. 41 CFR 102-75.880 - When may Executive agencies conduct negotiated sales?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... for competitive bids and the fair market value of the property and other satisfactory terms of... a competitive sale, will result from the negotiated sale; or (e) Negotiation is otherwise authorized by Chapter 5 of Subtitle I of Title 40 of the United States Code or other law, such as disposals of...

  12. 41 CFR 102-75.880 - When may Executive agencies conduct negotiated sales?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... for competitive bids and the fair market value of the property and other satisfactory terms of... a competitive sale, will result from the negotiated sale; or (e) Negotiation is otherwise authorized by Chapter 5 of Subtitle I of Title 40 of the United States Code or other law, such as disposals of...

  13. 7 CFR 3019.46 - Procurement records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) Justification for lack of competition bids or offers are not obtained, and (c) Basis for award cost or price. ... HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Post-Award Requirements Procurement...

  14. Impact of the 2013 National Rollout of CMS Competitive Bidding Program: The Disruption Continues.

    PubMed

    Puckrein, Gary A; Hirsch, Irl B; Parkin, Christopher G; Taylor, Bruce T; Xu, Liou; Marrero, David G

    2018-05-01

    Use of glucose monitoring is essential to the safety of individuals with insulin-treated diabetes. In 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Medicare Competitive Bidding Program (CBP) in nine test markets. This resulted in a substantial disruption of beneficiary access to self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) supplies and significant increases in the percentage of beneficiaries with either reduced or no acquisition of supplies. These reductions were significantly associated with increased mortality, hospitalizations, and costs. The CBP was implemented nationally in July 2013. We evaluated the impact of this rollout to determine if the adverse outcomes seen in 2011 persisted. This longitudinal study followed 529,627 insulin-treated beneficiaries from 2009 through 2013 to assess changes in beneficiary acquisition of testing supplies in the initial nine test markets (TEST, n = 43,939) and beneficiaries not affected by the 2011 rollout (NONTEST, n = 485,688). All Medicare beneficiary records for analysis were obtained from CMS. The percentages of beneficiaries with partial/no SMBG acquisition were significantly higher in both the TEST (37.4%) and NONTEST (37.6%) groups after the first 6 months of the national CBP rollout, showing increases of 48.1% and 60.0%, respectively (both P < 0.0001). The percentage of beneficiaries with no record for SMBG acquisition increased from 54.1% in January 2013 to 62.5% by December 2013. Disruption of beneficiary access to their prescribed SMBG supplies has persisted and worsened. Diabetes testing supplies should be excluded from the CBP until transparent, science-based methodologies for safety monitoring are adopted and implemented. © 2017 by the American Diabetes Association.

  15. 42 CFR 414.402 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... certified by either the American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics, Inc., or the Board... bidding area. Network means a group of small suppliers that form a legal entity to provide competitively...

  16. 42 CFR 414.402 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... certified by either the American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics, Inc., or the Board... bidding area. Network means a group of small suppliers that form a legal entity to provide competitively...

  17. 47 CFR 90.903 - Competitive bidding mechanisms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...-Albuquerque, Houston, Kansas City, Little Rock, Memphis-Jackson, New Orleans-Baton Rouge, Oklahoma City, San...-Rochester, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. (ii) Region 2 (South): The South Region consists of the...

  18. Green auctions and reduction of information rents in payments for environmental services: an experimental investigation in Sunan County, northwestern China.

    PubMed

    Deng, Xiaohong; Xu, Zhongmin

    2015-01-01

    Reducing information rents is an important task for government agencies wishing to purchase maximal environmental services with limited budgets. This paper reports on several green auction options for reducing information rents and improving the performance of the "Grain for Green" Payments for environmental services (PES) program implemented in northwestern China. In r experimental auctions and investigations, door-to-door interviews were conducted and bidding envelopes and survey questionnaires were used to determine the offers and the foregone profits of the participants. Three scenarios are analyzed in this paper: a uniform price auction, a discriminatory price auction, and an opportunity-cost system. The results show that compared to the uniform price auction system, the other auction systems can increase the cost-effectiveness of conservation contracting. Competitive bidding can reveal true opportunity costs and can reduce information rents extracted from the government by farmers using private information. The demographics and average bids of these auction types were also analyzed. "Perfect information" in the opportunity-cost offer system has the best performance but is very hard to implement in reality. The results of this research show that the auction is a valuable tool for purchasing conservation contracts in northwestern China, but that in the future, the performance of these auctions should be studied with relaxed model assumptions.

  19. Green Auctions and Reduction of Information Rents in Payments for Environmental Services: An Experimental Investigation in Sunan County, Northwestern China

    PubMed Central

    Deng, Xiaohong; Xu, Zhongmin

    2015-01-01

    Reducing information rents is an important task for government agencies wishing to purchase maximal environmental services with limited budgets. This paper reports on several green auction options for reducing information rents and improving the performance of the “Grain for Green” Payments for environmental services (PES) program implemented in northwestern China. In r experimental auctions and investigations, door-to-door interviews were conducted and bidding envelopes and survey questionnaires were used to determine the offers and the foregone profits of the participants. Three scenarios are analyzed in this paper: a uniform price auction, a discriminatory price auction, and an opportunity-cost system. The results show that compared to the uniform price auction system, the other auction systems can increase the cost-effectiveness of conservation contracting. Competitive bidding can reveal true opportunity costs and can reduce information rents extracted from the government by farmers using private information. The demographics and average bids of these auction types were also analyzed. “Perfect information” in the opportunity-cost offer system has the best performance but is very hard to implement in reality. The results of this research show that the auction is a valuable tool for purchasing conservation contracts in northwestern China, but that in the future, the performance of these auctions should be studied with relaxed model assumptions. PMID:25793263

  20. Buying Maintenance.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Venter, Bruce M.

    1985-01-01

    To maintain its 17 school buildings, the Albany, New York, school system uses private contractors whose services for labor and materials are obtained at a fixed price for a one-year period through a competitive bid. (MLF)

  1. 40 CFR 35.936-4 - Profits.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... ASSISTANCE Grants for Construction of Treatment Works-Clean Water Act § 35.936-4 Profits. Only fair and... included in a formally advertised, competitively bid, fixed price construction contract awarded under § 35...

  2. Are Australian Universities Promoting Learning and Teaching Activity Effectively? An Assessment of the Effects on Science and Engineering Academics

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cretchley, Patricia

    2009-01-01

    The Australian Federal Government and Australian universities have embarked on a bid to raise the profile of learning and teaching (L&T) in universities. Current strategies include increased funding of competitive grants for L&T projects, a wider range of teaching awards and fellowships and a controversial new national competitive Learning…

  3. 48 CFR 903.303 - Reporting suspected antitrust violations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Violations 903.303 Reporting suspected antitrust violations. (a) Potential anti-competitive practices, such as described in FAR 3.301, and antitrust law violations as described in FAR 3.303, evidenced in bids...

  4. 45 CFR 1634.12 - Emergency procedures and waivers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.12 Emergency procedures and waivers. The President of the... requirements imposed by law on the awards of grants and contracts for a particular fiscal year. ...

  5. 45 CFR 1634.12 - Emergency procedures and waivers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.12 Emergency procedures and waivers. The President of the... requirements imposed by law on the awards of grants and contracts for a particular fiscal year. ...

  6. 42 CFR 414.402 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    .... Network means a group of small suppliers that form a legal entity to provide competitively bid items... Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as defined in § 414.202 of this part and group 3 complex rehabilitative...

  7. 24 CFR 401.304 - PRA provisions on PAE compensation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    .... (3) Private PAEs will be compensated based on the results of a competitive bid process which... between PAEs (both public and private), the total amount potentially payable under the incentive package...

  8. 47 CFR 54.603 - Competitive bid requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... requester cannot obtain toll-free access to an Internet service provider; (iv) The requested service or... be sold, resold or transferred in consideration of money or any other thing of value; and (vi) If the...

  9. Field evaluation of roller integrated intelligent compaction monitoring

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2016-05-01

    DOTD conducted a demonstration : project to evaluate intelligent compaction (IC). The : project developed specifications, which allo : wed and incorporated : the IC rollers on the : project. The specification went through th : e competitive bidding p...

  10. 76 FR 31627 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Lands in Lake County, CA

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-06-01

    ...] Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Lands in Lake County, CA AGENCY: Bureau of Land... Field Office proposes to sell an 80-acre parcel of public land in Lake County, California. The sale will... proposed sale must be received by the BLM on or before July 11, 2011. Sealed bids must be received no later...

  11. Stage 1: Expression of interest and consultation document for natural gas distribution in New Brunswick

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    NONE

    The New Brunswick government intends to award a franchise to establish natural gas distribution in the province. To this end, the province wishes to invite bids from qualified entities to establish gas distribution facilities. The province will select the preferred bidder(s) through a two-stage competitive bidding process. This document details the province`s policy objectives, questions and issues to be addressed in stage 1 of the process, and the schedule for the process. Appendices include copies of relevant provincial statutes and regulations.

  12. 47 CFR 1.2102 - Eligibility of applications for competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... to the public; (2) Initial licenses or construction permits for digital television service given to... applications filed after July 26, 1993, in the Interactive Video Data Service (see 47 CFR part 95, subpart F...

  13. 13 CFR 126.613 - How does a price evaluation preference affect the bid of a qualified HUBZone SBC in full and open...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... full and open competition, a qualified HUBZone SBC submits an offer of $98, a non-HUBZone SBC submits..., the non-HUBZone SBC's offer at $100 does not displace the large business' offer because a price... and open competition, a qualified HUBZone SBC submits an offer of $98 and a non-HUBZone SBC submits an...

  14. An Assessment of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Program

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-12-14

    Sayaff Group BAC Bids and Awards Committee BCDA Bases Conversion and Development Authority BEP Bid Evaluation Plan BIR Bureau of Internal Revenue...contractor execute the requirements of the contract with regard to cost, schedule and performance (Sammet and Green 1990, 136) Bid Evaluation Plan or BEP is...adopted in the evaluation and assessment of bidders’ statements and the method and criteria for the evaluation and assessment of bids. The BEP also

  15. 47 CFR 1.2112 - Ownership disclosure requirements for applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Ownership disclosure requirements for... PROCEDURE Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2112 Ownership disclosure requirements for... agreements, management agreements, franchise agreements, spectrum leasing arrangements, spectrum resale...

  16. 30 CFR 285.221 - What bidding systems may MMS use for commercial leases and limited leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.221 What...

  17. 47 CFR 22.960 - Cellular unserved area radiotelephone licenses subject to competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Cellular Radiotelephone Service § 22.960 Cellular... applications for cellular unserved area Phase I and Phase II licenses filed after July 26, 1993 are subject to...

  18. 76 FR 9962 - Surety Bond Guarantee Program; Timber Sales

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-02-23

    ... and performance bonds for timber sale contracts awarded by the Federal Government or other public and... that the exception for timber sale contracts applies only to bid and performance bonds. Bid bonds are..., except for contracts in connection with bid and performance bonds for the sale of timber and/or other...

  19. Optimal generator bidding strategies for power and ancillary services

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Morinec, Allen G.

    As the electric power industry transitions to a deregulated market, power transactions are made upon price rather than cost. Generator companies are interested in maximizing their profits rather than overall system efficiency. A method to equitably compensate generation providers for real power, and ancillary services such as reactive power and spinning reserve, will ensure a competitive market with an adequate number of suppliers. Optimizing the generation product mix during bidding is necessary to maximize a generator company's profits. The objective of this research work is to determine and formulate appropriate optimal bidding strategies for a generation company in both the energy and ancillary services markets. These strategies should incorporate the capability curves of their generators as constraints to define the optimal product mix and price offered in the day-ahead and real time spot markets. In order to achieve such a goal, a two-player model was composed to simulate market auctions for power generation. A dynamic game methodology was developed to identify Nash Equilibria and Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibria solutions as optimal generation bidding strategies for two-player non-cooperative variable-sum matrix games with incomplete information. These games integrated the generation product mix of real power, reactive power, and spinning reserve with the generators's capability curves as constraints. The research includes simulations of market auctions, where strategies were tested for generators with different unit constraints, costs, types of competitors, strategies, and demand levels. Studies on the capability of large hydrogen cooled synchronous generators were utilized to derive useful equations that define the exact shape of the capability curve from the intersections of the arcs defined by the centers and radial vectors of the rotor, stator, and steady-state stability limits. The available reactive reserve and spinning reserve were calculated given a generator operating point in the P-Q plane. Four computer programs were developed to automatically perform the market auction simulations using the equal incremental cost rule. The software calculates the payoffs for the two competing competitors, dispatches six generators, and allocates ancillary services for 64 combinations of bidding strategies, three levels of system demand, and three different types of competitors. Matrix Game theory was utilized to calculate Nash Equilibrium solutions and mixed-strategy Nash solutions as the optimal generator bidding strategies. A method to incorporate ancillary services into the generation bidding strategy, to assure an adequate supply of ancillary services, and to allocate these necessary resources to the on-line units was devised. The optimal generator bid strategy in a power auction was shown to be the Nash Equilibrium solution found in two-player variable-sum matrix games.

  20. 47 CFR 1.2110 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Competitive Bidding Proceedings... applicant (or the controlling interest) is a “rural telephone company” as defined by the Communications Act... office space and/or employees and/or other facilities with another concern, particularly where such...

  1. 47 CFR 1.2110 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Competitive Bidding Proceedings... applicant (or the controlling interest) is a “rural telephone company” as defined by the Communications Act... office space and/or employees and/or other facilities with another concern, particularly where such...

  2. 30 CFR 285.225 - What happens if my bid is rejected, and what are my appeal rights?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.225 What...

  3. Analyzing asset management data using data and text mining.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2014-07-01

    Predictive models using text from a sample competitively bid California highway projects have been used to predict a construction : projects likely level of cost overrun. A text description of the project and the text of the five largest project line...

  4. User-Side Subsidies for Fixed Route Transit in Danville, Illinois : Phase 2.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1978-08-01

    This report presents the technical portion of an Evaluation Plan for the Danville, Illinois User-side Subsidy for Fixed-Route Transit demonstration project. Uner the project, the City of Danville will initiate competitive bidding processes for short-...

  5. 47 CFR 101.1111 - Partitioning and disaggregation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1111 Partitioning and disaggregation. (a) Definitions. Disaggregation. The assignment of discrete portions or “blocks” of spectrum licensed to a geographic licensee or qualifying entity. Partitioning. The assignment of geographic portions...

  6. 47 CFR 101.1112 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1112 Definitions. (a) Scope. The definitions in this... small business. A very small business is an entity that, together with its affiliates and controlling...

  7. 47 CFR 101.1112 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1112 Definitions. (a) Scope. The definitions in this... small business. A very small business is an entity that, together with its affiliates and controlling...

  8. 47 CFR 1.2209 - Disbursement of incentive payments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Disbursement of incentive payments. 1.2209 Section 1.2209 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Grants by Random Selection Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse Auction § 1...

  9. Asphalt mixture cold temperature performance using the Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR).

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2013-03-01

    The use of recycled materials providing substitution of virgin binder in asphalt mixtures : continues to increase. The current level of funding for highway construction is : significantly less than 3 years ago and the level of competition between bid...

  10. 47 CFR 101.1112 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Definitions. 101.1112 Section 101.1112 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1112 Definitions. (a) Scope. The definitions in this...

  11. 47 CFR 101.1111 - Partitioning and disaggregation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Partitioning and disaggregation. 101.1111 Section 101.1111 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1111 Partitioning and...

  12. 47 CFR 101.1109 - Records maintenance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Records maintenance. 101.1109 Section 101.1109 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1109 Records maintenance. All winning bidders...

  13. 47 CFR 101.1111 - Partitioning and disaggregation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Partitioning and disaggregation. 101.1111 Section 101.1111 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1111 Partitioning and...

  14. 47 CFR 101.1109 - Records maintenance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Records maintenance. 101.1109 Section 101.1109 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1109 Records maintenance. All winning bidders...

  15. 47 CFR 101.1109 - Records maintenance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Records maintenance. 101.1109 Section 101.1109 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1109 Records maintenance. All winning bidders...

  16. 47 CFR 101.1111 - Partitioning and disaggregation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Partitioning and disaggregation. 101.1111 Section 101.1111 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1111 Partitioning and...

  17. 47 CFR 101.1112 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Definitions. 101.1112 Section 101.1112 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1112 Definitions. (a) Scope. The definitions in this...

  18. 47 CFR 101.1109 - Records maintenance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Records maintenance. 101.1109 Section 101.1109 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1109 Records maintenance. All winning bidders...

  19. 47 CFR 101.1111 - Partitioning and disaggregation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Partitioning and disaggregation. 101.1111 Section 101.1111 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1111 Partitioning and...

  20. 47 CFR 101.1112 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Definitions. 101.1112 Section 101.1112 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1112 Definitions. (a) Scope. The definitions in this...

  1. 45 CFR 800.301 - Application process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT MULTI... statute requiring competitive bidding, OPM may consider annually applications from health insurance issuers, including groups of health insurance issuers as defined in § 800.20, to participate in the MSPP...

  2. 42 CFR 422.308 - Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments. 422.308 Section 422.308 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM (CONTINUED) MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PROGRAM...

  3. 42 CFR 422.308 - Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments. 422.308 Section 422.308 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PROGRAM Payments to...

  4. 42 CFR 422.308 - Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments. 422.308 Section 422.308 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM (CONTINUED) MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PROGRAM...

  5. 42 CFR 422.308 - Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Adjustments to capitation rates, benchmarks, bids, and payments. 422.308 Section 422.308 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM (CONTINUED) MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PROGRAM...

  6. 78 FR 62658 - Proposed Information Collection; National Park Service Leasing Program

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-10-22

    ... proposals or bids by parties interested in applying for a lease. The regulations also require that the... interests. We collect Information from anyone who wishes to submit a bid or proposal to lease a property... Proposals, Bids, Qualifications Complex 10 10 40 400 Simple 10 10 8 80 Requests to Sublet/Assign Lease...

  7. 48 CFR 22.1014 - Delay over 60 days in bid opening or commencement of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Delay over 60 days in bid... ACQUISITION REGULATION SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS APPLICATION OF LABOR LAWS TO GOVERNMENT ACQUISITIONS Service Contract Act of 1965, as Amended 22.1014 Delay over 60 days in bid opening or commencement of work. If a...

  8. Competitive bidding for health insurance contracts: lessons from the online HMO auctions.

    PubMed

    Gupta, Alok; Parente, Stephen T; Sanyal, Pallab

    2012-12-01

    Healthcare is an important social and economic component of modern society, and the effective use of information technology in this industry is critical to its success. As health insurance premiums continue to rise, competitive bidding may be useful in generating stronger price competition and lower premium costs for employers and possibly, government agencies. In this paper, we assess an endeavor by several Fortune 500 companies to reduce healthcare procurement costs for their employees by having HMOs compete in open electronic auctions. Although the auctions were successful in generating significant cost savings for the companies in the first year, i.e., 1999, they failed to replicate the success and were eventually discontinued after two more years. Over the past decade since the failed auction experiment, effective utilization of information technologies have led to significant advances in the design of complex electronic markets. Using this knowledge, and data from the auctions, we point out several shortcomings of the auction design that, we believe, led to the discontinuation of the market after three years. Based on our analysis, we propose several actionable recommendations that policy makers can use to design a sustainable electronic market for procuring health insurance.

  9. 30 CFR 285.223 - What does MMS do if there is a tie for the highest bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.223 What does MMS do if there...

  10. Alternate bidding strategies for asphalt and concrete pavement projects utilizing life cycle cost analysis (LCCA).

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2012-07-01

    Recent changes in pavement materials costs have impacted the competitive environment relative to the : determination of the most cost effective pavement structure for a specific highway project. In response, State : highway agencies have renewed thei...

  11. 32 CFR 274.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Definitions. 274.2 Section 274.2 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  12. 32 CFR 274.10 - Reservations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Reservations. 274.10 Section 274.10 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  13. 32 CFR 274.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Definitions. 274.2 Section 274.2 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  14. 32 CFR 274.10 - Reservations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Reservations. 274.10 Section 274.10 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  15. 47 CFR 1.2208 - Public notice of auction completion and auction results.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... PROCEDURE Grants by Random Selection Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse... broadcast television spectrum incentive auction conducted under section 6403 of the Spectrum Act, public... indicate that the reassignments of television channels and reallocations of broadcast television spectrum...

  16. 23 CFR 668.205 - Policy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... work shall be given prompt attention and priority over non-emergency work. (c) Permanent work shall be done by contract awarded by competitive bidding through formal advertising, where feasible. (d) It is... (advertised contract, negotiated contract, or force account) which the applicant or the Federal Highway...

  17. 47 CFR 101.1102-101.1105 - [Reserved

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false [Reserved] 101.1102-101.1105 Section 101.1102-101.1105 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1102-101.1105 [Reserved] ...

  18. 47 CFR 101.1102-101.1105 - [Reserved

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false [Reserved] 101.1102-101.1105 Section 101.1102-101.1105 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS § 101.1102-101.1105 [Reserved] ...

  19. Technology and Office Automation: Look before Leaping.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Uhler, Scott F.

    1988-01-01

    A school district that decides to acquire high-technology equipment for educational or administrative purposes faces three primary concerns: (1) potential competitive bid requirements; (2) a possible duty to bargain with employees over the effect of automation on existing jobs; and (3) copyright requirements. (MLF)

  20. 48 CFR 3.701 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... PRACTICES AND PERSONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Voiding and Rescinding Contracts 3.701 Purpose. This subpart... final conviction for bribery, conflict of interest, disclosure or receipt of contractor bid or proposal information or source selection information in exchange for a thing of value or to give anyone a competitive...

  1. Office Automation in Student Affairs.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Johnson, Sharon L.; Hamrick, Florence A.

    1987-01-01

    Offers recommendations to assist in introducing or expanding computer assistance in student affairs. Describes need for automation and considers areas of choosing hardware and software, funding and competitive bidding, installation and training, and system management. Cites greater efficiency in handling tasks and data and increased levels of…

  2. 45 CFR 1634.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... have an interest in and knowledge of the delivery of quality legal services to the poor. No person may... Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.2 Definitions. (a) Qualified applicants are those persons, groups or entities...

  3. 47 CFR 22.229 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Designated entities. 22.229 Section 22.229... Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding Procedures § 22.229 Designated entities. (a) Eligibility for small business provisions. (1) A very small business is an entity that, together with its...

  4. 47 CFR 24.321 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Designated entities. 24.321 Section 24.321... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for Narrowband PCS § 24.321 Designated entities. (a) Eligibility for small business provisions. (1) A small business is an entity that, together with its controlling...

  5. 47 CFR 24.321 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Designated entities. 24.321 Section 24.321... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for Narrowband PCS § 24.321 Designated entities. (a) Eligibility for small business provisions. (1) A small business is an entity that, together with its controlling...

  6. 78 FR 25097 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive, Sealed-Bid, Spring SNPLMA Sale of Public Lands in Clark...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-04-29

    ... Determination of National Environmental Policy Act Adequacy (DNA). DATES: Interested parties may submit written... December 23, 2004, and a site specific DNA document numbered DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2012-0106-DNA. Sale procedures...

  7. 32 CFR 274.1 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Purpose. 274.1 Section 274.1 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274.1 Purpose...

  8. 32 CFR 274.1 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Purpose. 274.1 Section 274.1 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274.1 Purpose...

  9. 32 CFR 274.3 - Public notice.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Public notice. 274.3 Section 274.3 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  10. 32 CFR 274.3 - Public notice.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Public notice. 274.3 Section 274.3 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  11. 77 FR 20413 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive, Sealed-Bid Sale of Public Land in Clark County, NV

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-04-04

    ... of Public Land in Clark County, NV AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of... described contains 480 acres, more or less, in Clark County. The map delineating the proposed sale parcel is...

  12. 47 CFR 1.2207 - Two competing participants required.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... by Random Selection Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse Auction § 1... to relinquish spectrum usage rights in exchange for a share of the proceeds from the related forward auction assigning new spectrum licenses unless at least two competing licensees participate in the reverse...

  13. 47 CFR 1.2205 - Prohibition of certain communications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... by Random Selection Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse Auction § 1... provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section, in the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction conducted under section 6403 of the Spectrum Act, beginning on the deadline for submitting applications to...

  14. 47 CFR 54.642 - Competitive bidding requirement and exemptions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... SERVICES (CONTINUED) UNIVERSAL SERVICE Universal Service Support for Health Care Providers Healthcare... process. (1) All entities participating in the Healthcare Connect Fund must conduct a fair and open... local requirements. (c) Cost-effective. For purposes of the Healthcare Connect Fund, “cost-effective” is...

  15. 47 CFR 54.642 - Competitive bidding requirement and exemptions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... SERVICES (CONTINUED) UNIVERSAL SERVICE Universal Service Support for Health Care Providers Healthcare... process. (1) All entities participating in the Healthcare Connect Fund must conduct a fair and open... local requirements. (c) Cost-effective. For purposes of the Healthcare Connect Fund, “cost-effective” is...

  16. 40 CFR 35.939 - Protests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... complainant, the grantee's procurement action (for example, contract award) must be taken in accordance with...) of this section should be made as early as possible during the procurement process (for example... grantee proposes to award a formally advertised, competitively bid, fixed price contract to a party who...

  17. 45 CFR 1606.14 - Recompetition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Corporation terminating financial assistance to a recipient in whole for any service area, the Corporation shall implement a new competitive bidding process for the affected service area. Until a new recipient has been awarded a grant pursuant to such process, the Corporation shall take all practical steps to...

  18. 45 CFR 1606.14 - Recompetition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Corporation terminating financial assistance to a recipient in whole for any service area, the Corporation shall implement a new competitive bidding process for the affected service area. Until a new recipient has been awarded a grant pursuant to such process, the Corporation shall take all practical steps to...

  19. 45 CFR 1606.14 - Recompetition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Corporation terminating financial assistance to a recipient in whole for any service area, the Corporation shall implement a new competitive bidding process for the affected service area. Until a new recipient has been awarded a grant pursuant to such process, the Corporation shall take all practical steps to...

  20. 47 CFR 22.203-22.211 - [Reserved

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false [Reserved] 22.203-22.211 Section 22.203-22.211 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding Procedures §§ 22.203-22.211 [Reserved] ...

  1. 47 CFR 1.2114 - Reporting of eligibility event.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Reporting of eligibility event. 1.2114 Section... Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2114 Reporting of eligibility event. (a) A designated entity must seek Commission approval for all reportable eligibility events. A reportable eligibility...

  2. 47 CFR 1.2114 - Reporting of eligibility event.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Reporting of eligibility event. 1.2114 Section... Competitive Bidding Proceedings General Procedures § 1.2114 Reporting of eligibility event. (a) A designated entity must seek Commission approval for all reportable eligibility events. A reportable eligibility...

  3. 47 CFR 101.1102-101.1105 - [Reserved

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false [Reserved] 101.1102-101.1105 Section 101.1102-101.1105 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS §§ 101.1102-101.1105 [Reserved] ...

  4. 47 CFR 101.1102-101.1105 - [Reserved

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false [Reserved] 101.1102-101.1105 Section 101.1102-101.1105 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS §§ 101.1102-101.1105 [Reserved] ...

  5. 47 CFR 101.1102-101.1105 - [Reserved

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false [Reserved] 101.1102-101.1105 Section 101.1102-101.1105 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for LMDS §§ 101.1102-101.1105 [Reserved] ...

  6. 48 CFR 932.7003 - Policies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... contract has been awarded as a result of competitive bidding should not, of itself, render the loan... that the materials or services to be provided cannot readily be acquired from alternative sources does not require the finding that the materials or services are absolutely unobtainable elsewhere. The...

  7. Evaluation of Selected Chemical Processes for Production of Low-cost Silicon, Phase 3

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Blocher, J. M.; Browning, M. F.

    1979-01-01

    Refinements of the design of the 50 MT/year Experimental Process System Development Unit were made and competitive bids were received from mechanical, electrical, and structural contractors. Bids on most of the equipment were received and cataloged. Emergency procedures were defined to counter a variety of contingencies disclosed in operations and safety reviews. Experimental work with an electrolytic cell for zinc chloride disclosed no significant increase in power efficiency by steps taken to increase electrolyte circulation. On the basis of materials compatibility and permeability tests, 310 stainless steel was chosen for the shell of the fluidized-bed reactor and SiC-coated graphite for the liner.

  8. 48 CFR 931.205-18 - Independent research and development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs. 931.205-18 Section 931.205-18 Federal Acquisition... bid and proposal (B&P) costs. (c)(2) IR&D costs are recoverable under DOE contracts to the extent they... the DOE program. The term “DOE program” encompasses the DOE total mission and its objectives. B&P...

  9. 48 CFR 931.205-18 - Independent research and development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs. 931.205-18 Section 931.205-18 Federal Acquisition... bid and proposal (B&P) costs. (c)(2) IR&D costs are recoverable under DOE contracts to the extent they... the DOE program. The term “DOE program” encompasses the DOE total mission and its objectives. B&P...

  10. 48 CFR 931.205-18 - Independent research and development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs. 931.205-18 Section 931.205-18 Federal Acquisition... bid and proposal (B&P) costs. (c)(2) IR&D costs are recoverable under DOE contracts to the extent they... the DOE program. The term “DOE program” encompasses the DOE total mission and its objectives. B&P...

  11. 48 CFR 931.205-18 - Independent research and development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs. 931.205-18 Section 931.205-18 Federal Acquisition... bid and proposal (B&P) costs. (c)(2) IR&D costs are recoverable under DOE contracts to the extent they... the DOE program. The term “DOE program” encompasses the DOE total mission and its objectives. B&P...

  12. 48 CFR 931.205-18 - Independent research and development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... development (IR&D) and bid and proposal (B&P) costs. 931.205-18 Section 931.205-18 Federal Acquisition... bid and proposal (B&P) costs. (c)(2) IR&D costs are recoverable under DOE contracts to the extent they... the DOE program. The term “DOE program” encompasses the DOE total mission and its objectives. B&P...

  13. 76 FR 18137 - Amendment of the Schedule of Application Fees

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-04-01

    ... Section 309(j) of the Communications Act-- Competitive Bidding Procedures for Commercial Broadcast and... FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 1 [GEN Docket No. 86-285; FCC 11-27] Amendment of the Schedule of Application Fees AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice of proposed...

  14. 47 CFR 90.165 - Procedures for mutually exclusive applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ..., the Commission may use competitive bidding, random selection, or comparative hearings, depending on... exclusive applications in a renewal filing group are designated for comparative consideration in a hearing... applications in the filing group for comparative consideration in a hearing. In this event, the result of the...

  15. 47 CFR 90.165 - Procedures for mutually exclusive applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ..., the Commission may use competitive bidding, random selection, or comparative hearings, depending on... exclusive applications in a renewal filing group are designated for comparative consideration in a hearing... applications in the filing group for comparative consideration in a hearing. In this event, the result of the...

  16. 47 CFR 90.165 - Procedures for mutually exclusive applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ..., the Commission may use competitive bidding, random selection, or comparative hearings, depending on... exclusive applications in a renewal filing group are designated for comparative consideration in a hearing... applications in the filing group for comparative consideration in a hearing. In this event, the result of the...

  17. 45 CFR 1634.9 - Selection criteria.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Selection criteria. 1634.9 Section 1634.9 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.9 Selection criteria. (a) The criteria to be used to select among...

  18. 45 CFR 1634.8 - Selection process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Selection process. 1634.8 Section 1634.8 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS § 1634.8 Selection process. (a) After receipt of all applications for a...

  19. 31 CFR 340.2 - Denominations and exchanges.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Denominations and exchanges. 340.2 Section 340.2 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FISCAL... BONDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.2 Denominations and exchanges. Bearer bonds with interest...

  20. 30 CFR 285.224 - What happens if MMS accepts my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... Section 285.224 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.224 What...

  1. 30 CFR 285.222 - What does MMS do with my bid?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 285.222 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 285.222 What does...

  2. 47 CFR 27.702 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Designated entities. 27.702 Section 27.702... COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 698-746 MHz Band § 27.702 Designated entities. (a) Eligibility for small business provisions. (1) An entrepreneur is an entity that, together with its...

  3. 47 CFR 22.223 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Designated entities. 22.223 Section 22.223... Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding Procedures § 22.223 Designated entities. (a) Scope... sections. (b) A small business is an entity that either: (1) Together with its affiliates and controlling...

  4. 47 CFR 22.223 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Designated entities. 22.223 Section 22.223... Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding Procedures § 22.223 Designated entities. (a) Scope... sections. (b) A small business is an entity that either: (1) Together with its affiliates and controlling...

  5. 32 CFR 274.4 - U.S. guaranty.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false U.S. guaranty. 274.4 Section 274.4 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  6. 32 CFR 274.4 - U.S. guaranty.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false U.S. guaranty. 274.4 Section 274.4 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED MILITARY EXPORT LOAN AGREEMENTS § 274...

  7. 47 CFR 22.213 - Filing of long-form applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Filing of long-form applications. 22.213... PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding Procedures § 22.213 Filing of long-form applications. After an auction, the Commission will not accept long form applications...

  8. JOC Be Nimble, JOC Be Quick

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Schreyer, Paul R.

    2012-01-01

    Given our aging and crowded schools, today's administrators have to focus their attention on modernizing facilities. The Job Order Contracting (JOC) procurement method allows school administrators to complete a large number of high quality maintenance projects quickly with a single, competitively bid contract. The JOC process fits schools' unique…

  9. 47 CFR 1.2102 - Eligibility of applications for competitive bidding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... radio services, including private internal radio services used by state and local governments and non-government entities and including emergency road services provided by not-for-profit organizations, that (i... to the public; (2) Initial licenses or construction permits for digital television service given to...

  10. The Integration of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 in Systems Acquisition.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1986-04-01

    Thomas L. "Mechanized Contract Document Preparation and Abstract System." §3 FMS. 7-9 Dec 83. p.18-22 . 5. Brechtel, Donald L., Capt, USAF, Brost ...and Momentum." Government Executive. Mar 85. p. 16+. 22. Roeder, George L. "Computer Aided Source Selection." 8__R. 7-9 Dec 83. p. 214-216. 23...Competition Advocacy Office. Andrews AFB. telecon. 12 Nov 85. B. RELATED SOURCES Articles and Periodicals Coburn, George M. "The New Bid Protest Remedies

  11. 47 CFR 54.636 - Eligible participant-constructed and owned network facilities for consortium applicants.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Support for Health Care Providers Healthcare Connect Fund § 54.636 Eligible participant-constructed and... proposals. Requests for proposals must provide sufficient detail so that cost-effectiveness can be evaluated... its own network facilities is the most cost-effective option after competitive bidding, pursuant to...

  12. 47 CFR 54.636 - Eligible participant-constructed and owned network facilities for consortium applicants.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Support for Health Care Providers Healthcare Connect Fund § 54.636 Eligible participant-constructed and... proposals. Requests for proposals must provide sufficient detail so that cost-effectiveness can be evaluated... its own network facilities is the most cost-effective option after competitive bidding, pursuant to...

  13. 12 CFR 563b.530 - What other requirements apply after I convert?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... quotations for the security in a recognized inter-dealer quotation system; (2) Furnishes bona fide competitive bid and offer quotations for the security on request; or (3) May effect transactions for the... Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system. (d) File all post-conversion reports that OTS requires...

  14. 47 CFR 27.502 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Designated entities. 27.502 Section 27.502... COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 698-806 MHz Band § 27.502 Designated entities. Eligibility for small business provisions: (a)(1) A small business is an entity that, together with its...

  15. 47 CFR 27.502 - Designated entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Designated entities. 27.502 Section 27.502... COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 698-806 MHz Band § 27.502 Designated entities. Eligibility for small business provisions: (a)(1) A small business is an entity that, together with its...

  16. 32 CFR 644.540 - Advertising.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... opportunity to bid for the property. (2) To secure for the Government the benefits which flow from competition... making sales of public property. (b) Notice to Department of Commerce. A condensed statement of proposed... publication in the U.S. Department of Commerce publications, “Commerce Business Daily.” Guideline is contained...

  17. 47 CFR 1.2112 - Ownership disclosure requirements for applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... applications. (a) Each application to participate in competitive bidding (i.e., short-form application (see 47..., including a complete disclosure of the identity and relationship of those persons or entities directly or...'s principal business and a description of each such entity's relationship to the applicant (e.g...

  18. Florida Schoolhouse Systems Project. First Phase Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee.

    A description is presented of the first phase of the Florida Schoolhouse Systems Project. Following a presentation of the background and objectives of the SSP, the development of integrated building systems is considered with regard to--(1) stimulation of research and development, (2) performance specifications and competitive bidding, and (3)…

  19. Learning Design, Social Ontology and Unintended Functionalism in Education Projects

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Johnson, Mark William

    2016-01-01

    For many years there have been well-funded project opportunities for developing educational innovations, both pedagogical and technological, to fulfil the educational ambitions of national governments and European agencies. Projects have been funded on the basis of competitive bidding against themes identified by funders. Calls for funding…

  20. 47 CFR 54.503 - Competitive bidding requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... elementary and secondary schools found under section 254(h) of the Act, as amended in the No Child Left... State library administrative agency under the Library Services and Technology Act of 1996 do not operate...) Technology plans for using the services requested in the application; or (B) No technology plan is required...

  1. 47 CFR 90.165 - Procedures for mutually exclusive applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... grant, pursuant to § 1.935 of this chapter. (1) Selection methods. In selecting the application to grant, the Commission may use competitive bidding, random selection, or comparative hearings, depending on... chapter, either before or after employing selection procedures. (3) Type of filing group used. Except as...

  2. 47 CFR 54.1005 - Application process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... for Mobility Fund Phase I Support. In addition to providing information specified in § 1.21001(b) of... competitive bidding for Mobility Fund Phase I support also shall: (1) Provide ownership information as set... Mobility Fund Phase I Support—(1) Deadline. Unless otherwise provided by public notice, winning bidders for...

  3. 47 CFR 54.1005 - Application process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... for Mobility Fund Phase I support. In addition to providing information specified in § 1.21001(b) of... competitive bidding for Mobility Fund Phase I support also shall: (1) Provide ownership information as set... Mobility Fund Phase I support.—(1) Deadline. Unless otherwise provided by public notice, winning bidders...

  4. 47 CFR 54.1005 - Application process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... for Mobility Fund Phase I support. In addition to providing information specified in § 1.21001(b) of... competitive bidding for Mobility Fund Phase I support also shall: (1) Provide ownership information as set... Mobility Fund Phase I support.—(1) Deadline. Unless otherwise provided by public notice, winning bidders...

  5. 32 CFR 644.63 - Contracting for title evidence.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... title). (2) In those States where the furnishing of title evidence is held to constitute the practice of law and the State canons of legal ethics prohibit attorneys from engaging in competitive bidding for..., negotiations shall be conducted with attorneys or law firms duly authorized to practice law in the jurisdiction...

  6. 47 CFR 90.903 - Competitive bidding mechanisms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Bureau will establish and may vary the sequence in which 800 MHz SMR licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be auctioned. (b) Grouping. (1) All EA licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be... the auction, an alternative method of grouping these licenses for auction. (2) Spectrum blocks D...

  7. 47 CFR 90.903 - Competitive bidding mechanisms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Bureau will establish and may vary the sequence in which 800 MHz SMR licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be auctioned. (b) Grouping. (1) All EA licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be... the auction, an alternative method of grouping these licenses for auction. (2) Spectrum blocks D...

  8. 47 CFR 1.2206 - Confidentiality of Commission-held data.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... by Random Selection Competitive Bidding Proceedings Broadcast Television Spectrum Reverse Auction § 1... reassignments and reallocations under section 6403(b)(1)(B) of the Spectrum Act become effective or until two...)(1)(B) of the Spectrum Act become effective, the Commission will continue to take all reasonable...

  9. 47 CFR 90.903 - Competitive bidding mechanisms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Bureau will establish and may vary the sequence in which 800 MHz SMR licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be auctioned. (b) Grouping. (1) All EA licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be... the auction, an alternative method of grouping these licenses for auction. (2) Spectrum blocks D...

  10. 47 CFR 90.903 - Competitive bidding mechanisms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Bureau will establish and may vary the sequence in which 800 MHz SMR licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be auctioned. (b) Grouping. (1) All EA licenses for Spectrum Blocks A through V will be... the auction, an alternative method of grouping these licenses for auction. (2) Spectrum blocks D...

  11. 4 CFR 21.0 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 4 Accounts 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Definitions. 21.0 Section 21.0 Accounts GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE GENERAL PROCEDURES BID PROTEST REGULATIONS § 21.0 Definitions. (a)(1) Interested party... award of a contract or by the failure to award a contract. (2) In a public-private competition conducted...

  12. 4 CFR 21.0 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 4 Accounts 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Definitions. 21.0 Section 21.0 Accounts GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE GENERAL PROCEDURES BID PROTEST REGULATIONS § 21.0 Definitions. (a)(1) Interested party... award of a contract or by the failure to award a contract. (2) In a public-private competition conducted...

  13. 24 CFR 578.95 - Conflicts of interest.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... subrecipients and who exercises or has exercised any functions or responsibilities with respect to activities assisted under this part, or who is in a position to participate in a decision-making process or gain... competitive bidding or negotiation; (C) Whether the affected person has withdrawn from his or her functions...

  14. U.S. Officials Scrutinize Colleges' Deals with Lenders

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Field, Kelly

    2007-01-01

    In December 2005, purchasing agents at Florida International University issued a request for proposals seeking banks and student-loan companies for a list of "preferred lenders" that the university planned to give to prospective borrowers. The request alone was not unusual. Many colleges use competitive bidding to secure attractive terms…

  15. 47 CFR 25.404 - Submission of down payment and filing of long-form applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...-form applications. 25.404 Section 25.404 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS Competitive Bidding Procedures for DARS § 25.404... obligations in a timely manner must, within thirty (30) business days after being notified that it is a high...

  16. 31 CFR 340.11 - Failure to complete transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Failure to complete transaction. 340.11 Section 340.11 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued... TREASURY BONDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.11 Failure to complete transaction. If any successful...

  17. 31 CFR 340.11 - Failure to complete transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Failure to complete transaction. 340.11 Section 340.11 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued... TREASURY BONDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.11 Failure to complete transaction. If any successful...

  18. 31 CFR 340.11 - Failure to complete transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Failure to complete transaction. 340.11 Section 340.11 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued... TREASURY BONDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.11 Failure to complete transaction. If any successful...

  19. 31 CFR 340.11 - Failure to complete transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Failure to complete transaction. 340.11 Section 340.11 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued... TREASURY BONDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.11 Failure to complete transaction. If any successful...

  20. 31 CFR 340.11 - Failure to complete transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Failure to complete transaction. 340.11 Section 340.11 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued... TREASURY BONDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.11 Failure to complete transaction. If any successful...

  1. 48 CFR 22.404-4 - Solicitations issued without wage determinations for the primary site of the work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS APPLICATION OF LABOR LAWS... issued as an amendment to the solicitation. (b) In sealed bidding, bids may not be opened until a...

  2. The Political Economy of the Munitions Supply Program

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-05-01

    franchisees bid their true costs.47 Third, once supply is forthcoming, the franchisee has an incentive to minimize costs unless the franchiser is known... franchisee skimps on quality. In this regard, the franchiser has an incentive to preserve its “smart customer” capabilities, particularly if bids...term procurement program that sustains a domestic munitions industrial base that consists of a group of government- franchised mo- nopolies contracted

  3. Welfare Impact of Virtual Trading on Wholesale Electricity Markets

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Giraldo, Juan S.

    Virtual bidding has become a standard feature of multi-settlement wholesale electricity markets in the United States. Virtual bids are financial instruments that allow market participants to take financial positions in the Day-Ahead (DA) market that are automatically reversed/closed in the Real-Time (RT) market. Most U.S. wholesale electricity markets only have two types of virtual bids: a decrement bid (DEC), which is virtual load, and an increment offer (INC), which is virtual generation. In theory, financial participants create benefits by seeking out profitable bidding opportunities through arbitrage or speculation. Benefits have been argued to take the form of increased competition, price convergence, increased market liquidity, and a more efficient dispatch of generation resources. Studies have found that price convergence between the DA and RT markets improved following the introduction of virtual bidding into wholesale electricity markets. The improvement in price convergence was taken as evidence that market efficiency had increased and many of the theoretical benefits realized. Persistent price differences between the DA and RT markets have led to calls to further expand virtual bidding as a means to address remaining market inefficiencies. However, the argument that price convergence is beneficial is extrapolated from the study of commodity and financial markets and the role of futures for increasing market efficiency in that context. This viewpoint largely ignores details that differentiate wholesale electricity markets from other commodity markets. This dissertation advances the understanding of virtual bidding by evaluating the impact of virtual bidding based on the standard definition of economic efficiency which is social welfare. In addition, an examination of the impacts of another type of virtual bid, up-to-congestion (UTC) transactions is presented. This virtual product significantly increased virtual bidding activity in the PJM interconnection market since it became available to be used by financial traders in September 2010. Stylized models are used to determine the optimal bidding strategy for the different virtual bids under different scenarios. The welfare analysis shows that the main impact of virtual bidding is surplus reallocation and that the impact on market efficiency is small by comparison. The market structure is such that it is more likely to see surplus transfers from consumers to producers. The results also show that outcomes with greater price convergence as a result of virtual bidding activity were not necessarily more efficient, nor do they always correct surplus distribution distortions that result from bias in the DA expectation of RT load. Compared to INCs and DECs, the UTC analysis showed that UTCs do not have the same self-corrective incentives towards price convergence and are less likely to lead to nodal price convergence or correct for surplus distribution distortions caused by uncertainty and bias in the DA expectation of RT load. Additionally, the analysis showed that UTCs allow financial traders to engage in low risk high volume trading strategies that, while profitable, may have little to no impact on price convergence or market efficiency.

  4. 31 CFR 356.20 - How does the Treasury determine auction awards?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ..., but not above, par when evaluated at the yield of awards to successful competitive bidders. (2... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false How does the Treasury determine... the yield or discount rate for the securities we are auctioning. (2) Accepting bids at the high yield...

  5. 31 CFR 356.20 - How does the Treasury determine auction awards?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ..., but not above, par when evaluated at the yield of awards to successful competitive bidders. (2... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false How does the Treasury determine... the yield or discount rate for the securities we are auctioning. (2) Accepting bids at the high yield...

  6. 31 CFR 356.20 - How does the Treasury determine auction awards?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ..., but not above, par when evaluated at the yield of awards to successful competitive bidders. (2... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false How does the Treasury determine... the yield or discount rate for the securities we are auctioning. (2) Accepting bids at the high yield...

  7. 30 CFR 585.221 - What bidding systems may BOEM use for commercial leases and limited leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... commercial leases and limited leases? 585.221 Section 585.221 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process...

  8. 30 CFR 585.221 - What bidding systems may BOEM use for commercial leases and limited leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... commercial leases and limited leases? 585.221 Section 585.221 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process...

  9. 30 CFR 285.225 - What happens if my bid is rejected, and what are my appeal rights?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... are my appeal rights? 285.225 Section 285.225 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award...

  10. 30 CFR 585.221 - What bidding systems may BOEM use for commercial leases and limited leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... commercial leases and limited leases? 585.221 Section 585.221 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process...

  11. 30 CFR 285.221 - What bidding systems may MMS use for commercial leases and limited leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... leases and limited leases? 285.221 Section 285.221 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award...

  12. The Mechanisms and Value of Competition for Major Weapon Systems

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-04-01

    technology. MUOS is intended to replace the Ultra-High Frequency Follow-On system ( UFO ), which was fielded between 1993 and 2003. Launch of the first......performance on the UFO system was considered an outstanding success. Based on rather limited evidence, Scearce concludes that Boeing’s bid for MUOS was based

  13. 78 FR 26269 - Connect America Fund; High-Cost Universal Service Support

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-05-06

    ... the model platform, which is the basic framework for the model consisting of key assumptions about the... combination of competitive bidding and a new forward-looking model of the cost of constructing modern multi-purpose networks.'' Using the cost model to ``estimate the support necessary to serve areas where costs...

  14. 47 CFR 101.56 - Partitioned service areas (PSAs) and disaggregated spectrum.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... area will be treated as a separate protected service area. (d)(1) When any area within an EA becomes a...) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Applications and Licenses License Transfers.... (a)(1) The holder of an EA authorization to provide service pursuant to the competitive bidding...

  15. 47 CFR 101.56 - Partitioned service areas (PSAs) and disaggregated spectrum.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... area will be treated as a separate protected service area. (d)(1) When any area within an EA becomes a...) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Applications and Licenses License Transfers.... (a)(1) The holder of an EA authorization to provide service pursuant to the competitive bidding...

  16. 47 CFR 101.56 - Partitioned service areas (PSAs) and disaggregated spectrum.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... area will be treated as a separate protected service area. (d)(1) When any area within an EA becomes a...) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Applications and Licenses License Transfers.... (a)(1) The holder of an EA authorization to provide service pursuant to the competitive bidding...

  17. 47 CFR 101.56 - Partitioned service areas (PSAs) and disaggregated spectrum.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... area will be treated as a separate protected service area. (d)(1) When any area within an EA becomes a...) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES Applications and Licenses License Transfers.... (a)(1) The holder of an EA authorization to provide service pursuant to the competitive bidding...

  18. Electronic Reverse Auctions in the Federal Government

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-12-01

    William R. Gates _____________________________________ Peter J. Coughlan _____________________________________ Robert N. Beck ...AND ACRONYMS BAA Buy American Act BPA Blanket Purchase Agreement CBE Competitive Bidding Event CCR Central Contractor Registration CECOM...BUY AMERICAN ACT Even if a buyer employs e-RAs to determine the price of an item, the regulations such as the Buy American Act ( BAA ) still apply

  19. 32 CFR 274.9 - Delegation of authority to the Secretary of the Treasury.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Delegation of authority to the Secretary of the Treasury. 274.9 Section 274.9 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED...

  20. 32 CFR 274.9 - Delegation of authority to the Secretary of the Treasury.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Delegation of authority to the Secretary of the Treasury. 274.9 Section 274.9 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS GOVERNING COMPETITIVE BIDDING ON U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED...

  1. 75 FR 22792 - Closed Auction of Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for July 20, 2010; Notice and Filing...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-04-30

    ... of the outstanding non-tax delinquencies. 52. On the short-form application, an applicant must... Bureaus' previous guidance on default and delinquency disclosure requirements in the context of the short... 1.2106(a) regarding default and delinquency in connection with competitive bidding are limited to...

  2. 36 CFR 228.58 - Competitive sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... cubic yards must be advertised on the same day once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the material is located, and in a trade or industrial newspaper when... other access to the sale area which is available to anyone qualified to bid. (b) Advertising—(1) Sales...

  3. 31 CFR 340.3 - Taxation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Taxation. 340.3 Section 340.3 Money... COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.3 Taxation. The income derived from the bonds will be subject to all taxes imposed... excise taxes, whether Federal or State, but will be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed on...

  4. 47 CFR 101.1209 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... not more than $15 million for the preceding three years. [63 FR 6106, Feb. 6, 1998; 63 FR 10781, Mar... affiliates, has average gross revenues that are not more than $40 million for the preceding three years. (2... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Band § 101.1209 Definitions. (a) Scope. The...

  5. 47 CFR 101.1209 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... not more than $15 million for the preceding three years. [63 FR 6106, Feb. 6, 1998; 63 FR 10781, Mar... affiliates, has average gross revenues that are not more than $40 million for the preceding three years. (2... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Band § 101.1209 Definitions. (a) Scope. The...

  6. 47 CFR 101.1209 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... not more than $15 million for the preceding three years. [63 FR 6106, Feb. 6, 1998; 63 FR 10781, Mar... affiliates, has average gross revenues that are not more than $40 million for the preceding three years. (2... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Band § 101.1209 Definitions. (a) Scope. The...

  7. 47 CFR 101.1209 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... not more than $15 million for the preceding three years. [63 FR 6106, Feb. 6, 1998; 63 FR 10781, Mar... affiliates, has average gross revenues that are not more than $40 million for the preceding three years. (2... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Band § 101.1209 Definitions. (a) Scope. The...

  8. 47 CFR 101.1209 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... not more than $15 million for the preceding three years. [63 FR 6106, Feb. 6, 1998; 63 FR 10781, Mar... affiliates, has average gross revenues that are not more than $40 million for the preceding three years. (2... SERVICES Competitive Bidding Procedures for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Band § 101.1209 Definitions. (a) Scope. The...

  9. Time to Reexamine Institutional Cooperation on Financial Aid

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Reed, Matthew

    2008-01-01

    Many public and private colleges give out substantial amounts of financial aid in excess of students' demonstrated financial need to attract the most talented students in a competitive marketplace. These colleges see merit aid as an investment in institutional quality. Since top students are in high demand, colleges may have to bid against each…

  10. 75 FR 61752 - Auction of FM Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for March 29, 2011; Comment Sought on...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-10-06

    ... Construction Permits Scheduled for March 29, 2011; Comment Sought on Competitive Bidding Procedures for Auction... auction of certain FM construction permits scheduled to commence on March 29, 2011 (Auction 91). This... Telecommunications and the Media Bureaus (the Bureaus) announce an auction of certain FM Broadcast construction...

  11. 31 CFR 340.3 - Taxation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Taxation. 340.3 Section 340.3 Money... COMPETITIVE BIDDING § 340.3 Taxation. The income derived from the bonds will be subject to all taxes imposed... excise taxes, whether Federal or State, but will be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed on...

  12. A Technique for Evaluating Vendor Bids for Stock Replenishment of a Consumable Item.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1985-06-01

    RD-A159 957 A TECHNIQUE FOR EVALUATING VENDOR BIDS FOR STOCK 1/1 REPLENISHMENT OF A CONSUMABLE I TEM(U) NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA J...REPORT II PER106 COVERED *A Technique for Evaluating Vendor Bids Juner’ 1985 i for Stock Replenishment of a Consumable tern 6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT...Control Center (SPCC) Uniform Inventory Control Program (UICP) wholesale replenishment model for 1H cognizance symbol ( consumable ) material is an order

  13. Game Theory Analysis of Bidding for A Construction Contract

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Kembłowski, Marian W.; Grzyl, Beata; Siemaszko, Agata

    2017-10-01

    The authors are concerned with a bidding problem. There are two companies (P1 and P2) bidding for a highway construction project. In order to be more competitive, P1 considers buying a new gravel pit near the construction site. The basic cost of the pit is known to both companies. However, there is also an additional, hidden, cost (C) known only to P1. P2 is uncertain whether the hidden cost is C = 0 or C = x. P1 plans to bid for the job, but has to decide whether to buy the gravel pit. P2, not having a complete knowledge about C, thus not knowing the strategy choice of P1, has to decide if to bid for the job. In effect we have two payoff matrices, one for the additional cost C = 0, and the other one for C = x. If the probability of P2 bidding for the project can be estimated by propagating intelligence information through a Bayesian Belief Network, the best strategy for P1 can be readily determined. Otherwise, the solution calls for changing this game of incomplete information (players may or may not know some information about the other players, e.g., their “type,” their strategies, payoffs) into a game of imperfect information (players are simply unaware of the actions chosen by other players). This is achieved by introducing an additional “Nature” node which for this problem determines with some probability “p” the additional cost C= 0 (thus, C = x with probability 1-p). The solution of this game turns out to depend on the probability “p”. For some values of p the game is solved with pure strategies, whereas for other values the game is in equilibrium when the players randomly mix their strategies.

  14. Characterization of vaniprevir, a hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibitor, in patients with HCV genotype 1 infection: safety, antiviral activity, resistance, and pharmacokinetics.

    PubMed

    Lawitz, Eric; Sulkowski, Mark; Jacobson, Ira; Kraft, Walter K; Maliakkal, Benedict; Al-Ibrahim, Mohamed; Gordon, Stuart C; Kwo, Paul; Rockstroh, Juergen Kurt; Panorchan, Paul; Miller, Michelle; Caro, Luzelena; Barnard, Richard; Hwang, Peggy May; Gress, Jacqueline; Quirk, Erin; Mobashery, Niloufar

    2013-09-01

    Vaniprevir is a competitive inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3/4A protease that has potent anti-HCV activity in preclinical models. This placebo-controlled dose-ranging study assessed the safety, tolerability, and antiviral efficacy of vaniprevir monotherapy in patients with genotype 1 chronic HCV infection. Treatment-naive and treatment-experienced non-cirrhotic adult patients with baseline HCV RNA >10(6)IU/ml were randomized to receive placebo or vaniprevir at doses of 125 mg qd, 600 mg qd, 25mg bid, 75 mg bid, 250 mg bid, 500 mg bid, and 700 mg bid for 8 days. Forty patients (82.5% male, 75% genotype 1a) received at least one dose of placebo or vaniprevir. After 1 week of vaniprevir, the decrease in HCV RNA from baseline ranged from 1.8 to 4.6 log₁₀IU/ml across all treatment groups, and there was a greater than dose-proportional increase in vaniprevir exposure at doses above 75 mg bid. The most commonly reported drug-related adverse events (AEs) were diarrhea (n=5) and nausea (n=5). No pattern of laboratory or ECG abnormalities was observed, all AEs resolved during the study, and there were no discontinuations due to AEs. No serious AEs were reported. Resistance-associated amino acid variants were identified at positions R155 and D168 in patients infected with genotype 1a virus. Vaniprevir monotherapy demonstrated potent antiviral activity in patients with chronic genotype 1 HCV infection, and was generally well tolerated with no serious AEs or discontinuations due to AEs. Further development of vaniprevir, including studies in combination with other anti-HCV agents, is ongoing. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  15. DoD Value Engineering Conference Report. Value Engineering (VE) - A Tool that Benefits Line Management Held at Leesburg, Virginia on 1-2 November 1984. Part 2. Plenary Session,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1985-06-01

    DOD REFORMS AND INITIATIVES TO TAKE EFFECT , CONGRESS HAS ENACTED LEGISLATION. FOR EXAMPLE: 1. PUBLIC LAW 98-72 REVISED SYNOPSIS PROCEDURES AND 0...COMPETITION ADVOCATES, CREATED APPROVAL LEVELS FOR NONCOMPETITIVE ACTIONS AND CODIFIED BID PROTEST PROCEDURES. THIS ACT WILL HAVE FAR REACHING EFFECTS ON...PROBLEMS. WHETHER IT BE SPARE PARTS, COMPETITION OR GOLD-PLATING IT BOILS DOWN TO CONCERN THAT PUBLIC FUNDS ARE SPENT IN THE MOST PRUDENT, COST- EFFECTIVE

  16. An Intersensory Interaction Account of Priming Effects-and Their Absence.

    PubMed

    Klatzky, Roberta L; Creswell, J David

    2014-01-01

    Psychological researchers have found that exposures to stimuli (primes) can subsequently influence people's behavior by pathways that would seem to be quite remote. For example, people exposed to words associated with older adults may walk more slowly. Recently priming studies, particularly those showing dramatic effects on social behavior, have been under scrutiny because of the unreliability of empirical results. In this article, we shed light on the issue by describing a general model of intersensory interaction, in which two or more sources of information provide an estimate or "bid" on a property of the world, with the perceptual outcome being a weighted combination of the bids. When it is extended by adding bids that stem from memory or inference, the model identifies systematic factors that might undermine priming, including random variation in estimates, contextual influences on memory retrieval and inference, competition among information sources, and cognitive control. These factors are not only explanatory but are predictive of when priming effects can be expected. Our hope is that by promoting the understanding of underlying processes that may explain how primes can influence behavior, the bidding model and the general approach that it represents offer novel insights into the hotly debated area of priming research. © The Author(s) 2013.

  17. Estimation of Bid Curves in Power Exchanges using Time-varying Simultaneous-Equations Models

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ofuji, Kenta; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki

    Simultaneous-equations model (SEM) is generally used in economics to estimate interdependent endogenous variables such as price and quantity in a competitive, equilibrium market. In this paper, we have attempted to apply SEM to JEPX (Japan Electric Power eXchange) spot market, a single-price auction market, using the publicly available data of selling and buying bid volumes, system price and traded quantity. The aim of this analysis is to understand the magnitude of influences to the auctioned prices and quantity from the selling and buying bids, than to forecast prices and quantity for risk management purposes. In comparison with the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation where the estimation results represent average values that are independent of time, we employ a time-varying simultaneous-equations model (TV-SEM) to capture structural changes inherent in those influences, using State Space models with Kalman filter stepwise estimation. The results showed that the buying bid volumes has that highest magnitude of influences among the factors considered, exhibiting time-dependent changes, ranging as broad as about 240% of its average. The slope of the supply curve also varies across time, implying the elastic property of the supply commodity, while the demand curve remains comparatively inelastic and stable over time.

  18. 24 CFR 135.11 - Other laws governing training, employment, and contracting.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... preference in the evaluation of bids or proposals. (2) Flexible Subsidy Program. Multifamily project... practices it selects provide preference to section 3 business concerns. (b) Procurement standards for other... statute that expressly encourages a geographic preference in the evaluation of bids or proposals. (c...

  19. 42 CFR 414.910 - Bidding process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Bidding process. 414.910 Section 414.910 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Payment for Drugs and Biologicals...

  20. 42 CFR 414.910 - Bidding process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Bidding process. 414.910 Section 414.910 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Payment for Drugs and Biologicals...

  1. 48 CFR 22.404-8 - Notification of improper wage determination before award.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS APPLICATION OF LABOR LAWS TO GOVERNMENT ACQUISITIONS... determination is withdrawn by the Administrative Review Board. (b) In sealed bidding, the contracting officer... determination for the primary site of the work reaches the contracting officer before bid opening, the...

  2. 30 CFR 585.225 - What happens if my bid is rejected, and what are my appeal rights?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... are my appeal rights? 585.225 Section 585.225 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.225 What...

  3. 30 CFR 585.225 - What happens if my bid is rejected, and what are my appeal rights?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... are my appeal rights? 585.225 Section 585.225 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.225 What...

  4. 30 CFR 585.225 - What happens if my bid is rejected, and what are my appeal rights?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... are my appeal rights? 585.225 Section 585.225 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF Issuance of OCS Renewable Energy Leases Competitive Lease Award Process § 585.225 What...

  5. 43 CFR 3422.3-2 - Conduct of sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Conduct of sale. 3422.3-2 Section 3422.3-2..., DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000) COMPETITIVE LEASING Lease Sales § 3422.3-2 Conduct of sale. (a)(1) Sealed bids shall be received only until the hour on the date specified in the notice of...

  6. 43 CFR 3422.3-2 - Conduct of sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Conduct of sale. 3422.3-2 Section 3422.3-2..., DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000) COMPETITIVE LEASING Lease Sales § 3422.3-2 Conduct of sale. (a)(1) Sealed bids shall be received only until the hour on the date specified in the notice of...

  7. 43 CFR 3422.3-2 - Conduct of sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Conduct of sale. 3422.3-2 Section 3422.3-2..., DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000) COMPETITIVE LEASING Lease Sales § 3422.3-2 Conduct of sale. (a)(1) Sealed bids shall be received only until the hour on the date specified in the notice of...

  8. 25 CFR 162.212 - When will the BIA advertise Indian land for agricultural leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... laws and leasing policies that have been made applicable to the land under §§ 162.109 and 162.203 of..., unless a preference in favor of individual Indians is required by a superseding tribal law or leasing policy. (c) Advertisements will require sealed bids, and they may also provide for further competitive...

  9. 25 CFR 162.212 - When will the BIA advertise Indian land for agricultural leases?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... laws and leasing policies that have been made applicable to the land under §§ 162.109 and 162.203 of..., unless a preference in favor of individual Indians is required by a superseding tribal law or leasing policy. (c) Advertisements will require sealed bids, and they may also provide for further competitive...

  10. Service Delivery to the Handicapped: The Role of the Federal Procurement Process. Part II. Selecting Contractors by Competitive Award.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Donaldosn, William S.; Stephens, Thomas M.

    1979-01-01

    Sections address the RFP/IFB (Request for Proposals/Invitation for Bids) process and procedures for selecting the "best" contract. In reviewing the federal procurement code, and the recent decision of the Government Accounting Office, particularly regarding the NIMIS (National Instructional Materials Information System contract), inconsistencies…

  11. 76 FR 5201 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sale of Public Lands in Monterey County, CA

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-01-28

    ... sale should be sent to the Field Manager, BLM Hollister Field Office, 20 Hamilton Court, Hollister, CA... will be provided an opportunity to submit supplemental bids. The BLM Hollister Field Office Manager... Management (BLM), Hollister Field Office, proposes to sell two separate parcels of public land totaling 80...

  12. 47 CFR 22.227 - Petitions to deny and limitations on settlements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... CARRIER SERVICES PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES Licensing Requirements and Procedures Competitive Bidding... deny long-form applications in the paging service will be governed by § 1.939 of this chapter. (b) The... application or petition to deny will be limited by the provisions set forth in § 1.935 of this chapter. [67 FR...

  13. 36 CFR 223.103 - Award of small business set-aside sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Award of small business set....103 Award of small business set-aside sales. If timber is advertised as set aside for competitive bidding by small business concerns, award will be made to the highest bidder who qualifies as a small...

  14. Construction Management for Educational Facilities: Professional Services' Procurement and Competitive Bid Statutes.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Goldblatt, Steven M.; Wood, R. Craig

    Construction management is utilized when a school district engages a firm to coordinate a total project. The construction management seeks to save an owner time and cost primarily through better contractor coordination and project management. These services may include the planning and design phases of the project as well as the actual…

  15. 76 FR 60830 - Auction of FM Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for March 27, 2012; Comment Sought on...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-09-30

    ... Construction Permits Scheduled for March 27, 2012; Comment Sought on Competitive Bidding Procedures for Auction... auction of certain FM broadcast construction permits scheduled to commence on March 27, 2012. This... construction permits and seek comment on the procedures to be used for this auction. This auction is scheduled...

  16. 78 FR 72081 - Closed Auction of AM Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for May 6, 2014; Comment Sought on...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-12-02

    ... Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for May 6, 2014; Comment Sought on Competitive Bidding Procedures... announces the auction of certain AM broadcast construction permits. Auction 84 will be a ``closed'' auction..., New York. II. Construction Permits In Auction 84 2. The Bureaus will proceed to auction for 22 new...

  17. 47 CFR 1.1182 - Schedule of fees for products and services provided by the Commission in connection with...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Schedule of fees for products and services... Procedures for Payment § 1.1182 Schedule of fees for products and services provided by the Commission in connection with competitive bidding procedures. Product or service Fee amount Payment procedure On-line...

  18. Districts Shun Stimulus Bids

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Maxwell, Lesli A.

    2010-01-01

    In the final sprint to polish Race to the Top applications, hundreds of school districts shunned a shot at a share of $4 billion in grants by refusing to sign on to their states' plans for the federal competition. California officials had secured the signatures of 790 local education agencies (leas) late last week, including most of the state's…

  19. 36 CFR 223.103 - Award of small business set-aside sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Award of small business set... PRODUCTS Timber Sale Contracts Award of Contracts § 223.103 Award of small business set-aside sales. If timber is advertised as set aside for competitive bidding by small business concerns, award will be made...

  20. 36 CFR 223.103 - Award of small business set-aside sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Award of small business set... PRODUCTS Timber Sale Contracts Award of Contracts § 223.103 Award of small business set-aside sales. If timber is advertised as set aside for competitive bidding by small business concerns, award will be made...

  1. 36 CFR 223.103 - Award of small business set-aside sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Award of small business set... PRODUCTS Timber Sale Contracts Award of Contracts § 223.103 Award of small business set-aside sales. If timber is advertised as set aside for competitive bidding by small business concerns, award will be made...

  2. 36 CFR 223.103 - Award of small business set-aside sales.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Award of small business set... PRODUCTS Timber Sale Contracts Award of Contracts § 223.103 Award of small business set-aside sales. If timber is advertised as set aside for competitive bidding by small business concerns, award will be made...

  3. 75 FR 73169 - Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-11-29

    ...This final rule with comment period addresses changes to the physician fee schedule and other Medicare Part B payment policies to ensure that our payment systems are updated to reflect changes in medical practice and the relative value of services. It finalizes the calendar year (CY) 2010 interim relative value units (RVUs) and issues interim RVUs for new and revised procedure codes for CY 2011. It also addresses, implements, or discusses certain provisions of both the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA). In addition, this final rule with comment period discusses payments under the Ambulance Fee Schedule (AFS), the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system, and the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS), payments to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) facilities, and payments for Part B drugs. Finally, this final rule with comment period also includes a discussion regarding the Chiropractic Services Demonstration program, the Competitive Bidding Program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (CBP DMEPOS), and provider and supplier enrollment issues associated with air ambulances.

  4. Regulation of Programmed Necrosis and Bone Marrow Failure

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2017-03-01

    length levels of another Caspase-8 substrate, Cylindromatosis (CYLD), was also observed (Fig. S3G). Furthermore, deletion of Caspase-8 using CRISPR ...down of Caspase-8 utilizing the CRISPR -Cas9 system in Bid +/+ cells. Experiment was performed two times. (I) Diagram of potential role for Bid in the

  5. [Body image dissatisfaction as a mediator of the association between BMI, self-esteem and mental health in early adolescents: a multiple-group path analysis across gender].

    PubMed

    Jang, Mi Heui; Lee, Gyungjoo

    2013-04-01

    This study was done to examine not only the relationships between body mass index (BMI), self-esteem, body image dissatisfaction (BID) and mental health, according to gender, but the mediating role of BID on mental health in relation to BMI and self-esteem among early adolescents. Data from 576 (296 boys and 280 girls) elementary school students in grades 5 to 6 were collected. A multiple-group path analysis was utilized to examine the relationships between BMI, self-esteem, BID and mental health by gender. In the path analysis for all students, poor mental health was related directly to BID, while it was indirectly related to BMI and self-esteem. In the multiple-group path analysis of both genders, BID was found to have a significant direct and indirect effect on mental health for girls alone. The findings suggested that BID should be examined early to prevent poor mental health in early adolescent girls. This study helps to elucidate the role of early adolescent BID on mental health and provides insight for further prevention and intervention programs in school and community mental health settings.

  6. Efficiency-wage competition and nonlinear dynamics

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Guerrazzi, Marco; Sodini, Mauro

    2018-05-01

    In this paper we develop a nonlinear version of the efficiency-wage competition model pioneered by Hahn (1987) [27]. Under the assumption that the strategic relationship among optimal wage bids put forward by competing firms is non-monotonic, we show that market wage offers can actually display persistent fluctuations described by a piece-wise non-invertible map. Thereafter, assuming that employers are never constrained in the labour market, we give evidence that in the parameter region of chaotic dynamics, the model is able to reproduce the business cycle regularity according to which in the short-run average wages fluctuate less than aggregate employment. In addition, we show that the efficiency-wage competition among firms leads to some inefficiencies in the wage setting process.

  7. Payment policy and the growth of Medicare Advantage.

    PubMed

    Zarabozo, Carlos; Harrison, Scott

    2009-01-01

    This paper reviews recent trends in Medicare Advantage, examining program costs, access to plans, enrollment, plan bids, and benchmarks. We find that current policy has favored the growth of particular types of plans. Bid data show that plans are paid, on average, 113 percent of what expenditures would have been under the traditional Medicare program. Although some of the plan payments are used to finance extra benefits for enrollees, paying plans at higher than fee-for-service levels could affect the sustainability of the Medicare program and result in increased costs for all taxpayers and beneficiaries.

  8. Medicare program; End-Stage Renal Disease prospective payment system, quality incentive program, and Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies. Final rule.

    PubMed

    2014-11-06

    This final rule will update and make revisions to the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2015. This rule also finalizes requirements for the ESRD quality incentive program (QIP), including for payment years (PYs) 2017 and 2018. This rule will also make a technical correction to remove outdated terms and definitions. In addition, this final rule sets forth the methodology for adjusting Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) fee schedule payment amounts using information from the Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program (CBP); makes alternative payment rules for certain DME under the Medicare DMEPOS CBP; clarifies the statutory Medicare hearing aid coverage exclusion and specifies devices not subject to the hearing aid exclusion; will not update the definition of minimal self-adjustment; clarifies the Change of Ownership (CHOW) and provides for an exception to the current requirements; revises the appeal provisions for termination of a CBP contract, including the beneficiary notification requirement under the Medicare DMEPOS CBP, and makes a technical change to the regulation related to the conditions for awarding contracts for furnishing infusion drugs under the Medicare DMEPOS CBP.

  9. 78 FR 59055 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Sealed-Bid Sale of Public Land at Schoolhouse Butte...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-09-25

    ... documentation, which clarifies the parcel identification language in the previously approved 1999 Paradise-Denio... District Office within 30 days after the sale. Otherwise, the patent will be issued to the name(s) on the... required to pay a $50 non-refundable filing fee for processing the conveyance of these mineral interests...

  10. Contract Attorneys Course Deskbook. Volume 1

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-06-21

    sources ; exceptions,” deletes “specialty metals ” from the listed items in § 2533a and creates a whole new section to address specialty metals . The...Acquisition Procedures 11 Commercial Item Acquisitions 12 Contract Pricing 13 Bid Protests 14 Competitive Sourcing ii 15...Requirements Part 7: Acquisition Planning Part 8: Required Sources of Supplies and Services Part 9: Contractor Qualifications Part 10: Market

  11. 76 FR 56793 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive, Sealed-Bid Sale of Public Lands in Clark County, NV

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-09-14

    ... Public Lands in Clark County, NV AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of Realty... sale and mineral conveyance regulations. The proposed sale also includes one 5-acre parcel in Clark... described contains 1.25 acres, more or less, in Clark County. The map delineating the proposed sale parcel...

  12. 77 FR 67021 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sealed-Bid Sale of Public Land in Clark County, NV

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-11-08

    ... Land in Clark County, NV AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The.../4\\SW\\1/4\\. The area described contains 12.5 acres, more or less, in Clark County. The map...-63015 for road purposes granted to Clark County, its successors or assigns, pursuant to the Act of...

  13. 76 FR 18578 - Notice of Realty Action: Competitive Sealed Bid Sale of Public Lands in Clark County, NV

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-04-04

    ... Lands in Clark County, NV AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of realty action... contains 5 acres, more or less, in Clark County. The map delineating the proposed sale parcel is available... saleable mineral deposits on the lands in Clark County, if any, are reserved to the United States, in...

  14. 47 CFR 27.1104 - Designated Entities in the 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Designated Entities in the 2000-2020 MHz and... MHz, 2000-2020 MHz, and 2180-2200 MHz bands Licensing and Competitive Bidding Provisions § 27.1104 Designated Entities in the 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands. Eligibility for small business provisions...

  15. 75 FR 55349 - Notice of Realty Action: Modified Competitive Sealed Bid Sale of Public Lands in Rio Arriba...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-09-10

    ... land totaling approximately 160 acres in Lindrith, New Mexico. The sale parcel will be subject to the... Federal purpose and would be sold for not less than Fair Market Value (FMV), currently appraised to be $96... Office, 1235 La Plata Highway, Suite A, Farmington, New Mexico 87401. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT...

  16. Designing PURPA (Public Utilities Regulatory Act) power purchase auctions: Theory and practice. [Cogenerated electricity purchasing model

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Rothkopf, M.H.; Kahn, E.P.; Teisberg, T.J.

    The Public Utilities Regulatory Act (PURPA) requires there to be procedures for electric utilities to buy electric power from qualifying cogenerators and small power producers (QFs) at rates up to ''avoided cost.'' This has led to price-posting procedures at prices calculated as the utility's marginal cost. Unexpectedly large sales at these prices and slow adjustment to falling energy cost are partially responsible for payments to QFs in excess of the utility's true avoided cost. Using competitive bidding instead of posted prices has been proposed as a way to avoid this outcome. This report reviews bidding theory and explores four issuesmore » that arise in deisigning auction systems for the purchase of power from QFs under PURPA. 77 refs., 6 figs., 15 tabs.« less

  17. Designing PURPA (Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act) power purchase auctions: Theory and practice. [Buys from cogenerators and small power generators

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Not Available

    The Public Utilities Regulatory Act (PURPA) requires there to be procedures for electric utilities to buy electric power from qualifying cogenerators and small power producers (QFs) at rates up to ''avoided cost''. This has led to price-posting procedures at prices calculated as the utility's marginal cost. Unexpectedly large sales at these prices and slow adjustment to falling energy cost are partially responsible for payments to QFs in excess of the utility's true avoided cost. Using competitive bidding instead of posted prices has been proposed as a way to avoid this outcome. This report reviews bidding theory and explores four issuesmore » that arise in designing auction systems for the purchase of power from QFs under PURPA.« less

  18. Essays on empirical analysis of multi-unit auctions: Impacts of financial transmission rights on the restructured electricity industry

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Zang, Hailing

    This dissertation uses recently developed empirical methodologies for the study of multi-unit auctions to test the impacts of Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) on the competitiveness of restructured electricity markets. FTRs are a special type of financial option that hedge against volatility in the cost of transporting electricity over the grid. Policy makers seek to use the prices of FTRs as market signals to incentivize efficient investment and utilization of transmission capacity. However, prices will not send the correct signals if market participants strategically use FTRs. This dissertation uses data from the Texas electricity market to test whether the prices of FTRs are efficient to achieve such goals. The auctions studied are multi-unit, uniform-price, sealed-bid auctions. The first part of the dissertation studies the auctions on the spot market of the wholesale electricity industry. I derive structural empirical models to test theoretical predictions as to whether bidders fully internalize the effect of FTRs on profits into their bidding decisions. I find that bidders are learning as to how to optimally bid above marginal cost for their inframarginal capacities. The bidders also learn to bid to include FTRs into their profit maximization problem during the course of the first year. But starting from the second year, they deviated from optimal bidding that includes FTRs in the profit maximization problems. Counterfactual analysis show that the primary effect of FTRs on market outcomes is changing the level of prices rather than production efficiency. Finally, I find that in most months, the current allocations of FTRs are statistically equivalent to the optimal allocations. The second part of the dissertation studies the bidding behavior in the FTR auctions. I find that FTRs' strategic impact on the FTR purchasing behavior is significant for large bidders---firms exercising market power in the FTR auctions. Second, trader forecasts future FTR credit very accurately while large generators' forecasts of future FTR credit tends to be biased upward. Finally, the bid shading patterns are consistent with theoretical predictions and support the existence of common values.

  19. The folly of using RCCs and RVUs for intermediate product costing.

    PubMed

    Young, David W

    2007-04-01

    Two measures for computing the cost of intermediate projects--a ratio of cost to charges and relative value units--are highly flawed and can have serious financial implications for the hospitals that use them. Full-cost accounting, using the principles of activity-based costing, enables hospitals to measure their costs more accurately, both for competitive bidding purposes and to manage them more effectively.

  20. Colorado Pulls out Stops in Bid for "Race to Top" Aid

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Klein, Alyson

    2009-01-01

    If the competition for a slice of $4 billion in federal Race to the Top Fund money were a school class, Colorado would be one of the kids sitting up front, furiously taking notes, and leaping up to answer every one of the teacher's questions. Officials here began plotting their strategy for receiving one of the coveted grants nearly as soon as the…

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