So officials in a couple of states tried to get a better price through competitive bidding.

At the end of the five years, city officials would consider whether to open the sites to competitive bidding.

Past efforts to open up the system to competitive bidding have failed.

The Pentagon has moved to open the up competitive bidding by other companies.

Several large regions of the country were then opened to competitive bidding.

His subject will be competitive bidding, on which he has written extensively.

But the state rents the space without competitive bidding for less than $7,000 a day.

Over the next 11 years it received $250 million in contracts from the Government without competitive bidding.

But if there is to be any chance of cutting costs, that will have to come from competitive bidding.

If it decided not to use competitive bidding, the department would have to justify the decision in writing.