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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

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According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook , the commercial aerospace sector is expected to experience significant growth this year, driven by continued record-setting production levels at assembly facilities and throughout the aerospace supplier network. Virtually every major defense contractor in the U.S.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Ontario Unveils Plans To Achieve An Energy Balance

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Underscoring stability and predictability, the LTEP commits to a new competitive procurement process with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA). Procurements for 2014 electric capacity are 300 MW wind, 140 MW solar, 50 MW bioenergy and 50 MW hydro; 2015 procurements are identical except a slight narrowing of hydro to 45 MW.

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Top 10 Compliance Laws for Federal Highway Contractors

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In 1991, after defense contractor scandals, the U.S. False claims; Antitrust; EEO; OSHA/safety and health; DOT (commercial driver’s licenses); DBE; Environmental; Procurement and government contracting; Finance and tax; and. Sentencing Commission issued sentencing guidelines for corporations. Here are my top ten.

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

County, State, and Local Governments, include secondary education unfortunately continue to use JOC simply as a means to speed delivery and bypass traditional procurement versus as a LEAN collaborative construction delivery method. a) Determination of best procurement approach. (i) AFARS Revision #21, dated May 22, 2007].

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

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Postal Service, and several agencies in Department of Defense. Local and national laws still required separate design-bid-build procurement on public projects and separate contracts for architects and contractors. To help win the first of scores of Walgreens projects, Dennis redesigned their Mt.

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The Case For Paying Marketers More

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While ignorance might not be a viable legal defense, it is likely your employer is not fully aware of the FLSA regulations. That’s $75,000 they should have paid you, but didn’t. That’s not chump change! But my non-lawyer opinion is I think you should tread lightly here.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Pennsylvania’s decision to consolidate hundreds of bridge projects into a single procurement financed by a bond fund managed by a new Public-Private Partnership (P3) should serve as a model for the rest of the country. The $722-million project is the largest private-activity bond financing of a public-private partnership in the U.S.

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