1.   The company is awarding the contract to the lowest bidder.

2.   Because it falls upon the airlines to hire screening contractors and pay them, contracts typically go to the lowest bidder.

3.   But the court concluded that the practice raised the cost of street repair to taxpayers, because the city was not always taking the lowest bidder.

4.   By law, the State Department must do business with the lowest bidder of all the companies that want to provide security agents at embassies.

5.   Carter said the company has been the lowest bidder for three years.

6.   Currently the airlines contract with private firms to do the work, but the contracts go to the lowest bidder so that employees are paid very little.

7.   Currently, the airlines contract out the security work, often to the lowest bidder.

8.   He added that the government would not necessarily hire the lowest bidder, as the airlines do now, but the company offering the best security.

9.   In some cases, utilities are selling off generating plants and becoming basically marketers, buying energy from the lowest bidder.

10.   Investigators have said that the contracts were overpriced and disregarded standard government procurement procedures that require the contract to go to the lowest bidder.