31.   Fuji won the Wal-Mart account through a competitive bidding process, said Kodak spokesman Charles Smith.

32.   Fuji won the Wal-Mart account through a competitive bidding process that took about three months.

33.   Fowler said the city killed the aquarium proposal based on a technicality during the bidding process, Fowler said.

34.   Hasan, who has said he favors an open bidding process, encouraged Placer Dome to make its bid, a Placer Dome official said.

35.   Gtech previously handled the Arizona lottery system, but lost the contract to Video Lottery, which underbid it in the most recent bidding process.

36.   Gtech refused to take part in the bidding process, and ultimately the commission decided the least expensive way to run the lottery was to stay with Gtech.

37.   He called on Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the IOC, to institute reforms in the bidding process.

38.   He has forced city workers to compete in a bidding process with private companies for traditional government tasks such as repaving highways and collecting trash.

39.   He has repeatedly said that he removed himself from the bidding process after the conversations, which took place in August.

40.   He also said the administration had inappropriately used an accelerated and less rigorous bidding process to pick Maximus and other contractors.