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bid protests

bid protests In Government Contracts Law, the General Accounting Office (GAO) forum for bidders and offerors who seek federal government contracts, and believe that a contract has been or is about to be awarded in violation of the laws and regulations that govern contracting with the federal government. Source: FindLaw ...


comptroller general procurement decisions

comptroller general procurement decisions The Comptroller General's decisions issued regarding appropriations, bid protests, major rules and related issues. These decisions are prepared by the GAO's Office of General Counsel. Source: FindLaw ...


bid

bid bid bid·ding vt : to offer (a price) for payment or acceptance vi : to make a bid : state what one will pay or take in payment [a contractor bidding for a job] bid·der n n 1 : the act of one who bids 2 a : a statement of what one will pay for something b : a statement of what one (as a contractor) will charge for something (as supplies or labor) 3 : an opportunity to bid ...


Protest

Protest, a solemn declaration of opinion, generally of dissent. Each peer has a right, when he disapproves of the vote of the majority of the House of Lords, to enter his dissent on the Journals of the House, with his reasons for such dissent, which is usually styled his protest.Also a notification written by a notary upon a foreign bill of exchange of non-acceptance or non-payment; as to this, see Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 51, by which a foreign bill, dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, must be duly protested, otherwise the drawer and indorsers are discharged. All protests made in England must, by the (English) Stamp Act, 1891 (see schedule), be stamped, otherwise they cannot be given in evidence without payment of a penalty.The following is a form of protest for non-payment:-On the .......... day of .........., at the request of A.B., bearer of the original bill of exchange, whereof a true copy is on the other side written, I [notary's name], of [address], notary publ...


Protestant

Protestant. This term does not occur in the Canons of 1603, or in the Thirty-nine Articles, or in the Acts of Uniformity, but appears in many statutes of later date, notably in the (English) Act of Settlement of 1700 (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), in which, by way of making further provision (in addition to that made by the Bill of Rights in 1688) 'for the succession of the Crown in the Protestant line,' the Crown was settled, in default of issue of Princess Anne of Denmark (afterwards Queen Anne) and William III., on the Princess Sophia and the heirs of her body, 'being Protestants'; it being added that 'whosoever shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown shall join in communion with the Church of England as by law established.'The Bill of Rights (1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2), after reciting that 'it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince or by any king or queen marrying a papist,' d...


Opening biddings

Opening biddings. Before 1867, where estates were sold, under the decree of a Court of Equity, the Court considered itself to have a greater power over the contract than if the contract were made between party and party; and as the aim of the Court was to obtain as great a price as possible for the estate, it would open the biddings after the estate was sold, and put up the estate for sale again.But the Sale of (English) Land by Auction Act, 1867, has, by s. 7, abolished this inconvenient practice (under which biddings were opened even more than once), with an exception for cases of fraud or improper management of a sale, in which upon the application of any person interested in the land, 'the Court may either open the biddings, holding such bidder bound by his bidding, or discharge him from being the purchaser, and order the land to be resold', see Delves v. Delves, (1875) LR 20 Eq 77....


Supra protest

Supra protest, after 'protest' (se PROTEST). There may be either acceptance or payment of a bill of exchange by a person other than the drawee or acceptor or other person liable, after it has been protested for non-acceptance or non-payment. The full term is 'acceptance (or payment) supra protest for honour,' i.e., for the honour or in relief of the person liable. The rights and liabilities o the parties are regulated by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, ss. 65-68; and see Byles on Bills, chs. 20, 21....


Bid

Bid, means to offer (a price) for payment or acceptance; to make a bid: state what one will pay or take in payment (a contractor bidding for a job), Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 40....


Competitive bidding

Competitive bidding, anything done in or about the place where a sale of goods by way of competitive bidding is held, if done in connection with the sale, must be taken to be done during the course of it, whether it is done at the time when any articles are being sold or offered for sale by way of competitive bidding or before or after any such time, Mock Auctions Act, 1961, s. 3(5) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 943, p. 459....


protest

protest 1 : a solemn declaration of opinion and usually of disagreement: as a : a solemn written declaration by a notary public or U.S. consul on behalf of the holder of an instrument (as a note) announcing dishonor and declaring the liability of all parties to the instrument for any loss or damage arising from such action ;also : the action of making or causing to be made such a declaration with due service of notice of dishonor b : a declaration made by the master of a ship before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer upon arrival in port after a disaster declaring that any loss was not the fault of the crew but due to the disaster c : a declaration made by a party esp. before or while paying a tax or performing a demanded act by which the declarer asserts that the justice or legality of the tax or act is disputed and that compliance is not voluntary 2 : the act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval ;esp : a usually organized public demonstration of disapproval ...


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