A delay of days or weeks while lawyers negotiate the fine points of a contract can mean death to a deal in a hot market like Fairfield County's.

The new rules will require small businesses to recertify their size when they are purchased by or merged with a larger business, or at the end of the five-year point of a contract.

The central procurement team only has responsibility up to the point of contract signature.

Point of Contract)

Having just cliched promotion to Division One with an exciting Newcastle United side, Arthur Cox left St James' Park on a point of contract and Derby wasted no time in appointing him as manager in May 1984.

For example, at AES Somerset station, the time to complete the retrofit from the point of contract award was nine months.19 Assuming four months of work prior to contract award, a total elapsed time of 13 months would have been necessary to retrofit this 675 MWe boiler.