lowest tender

best bid [ best tender | highest bid ]

lowest tenderer | lowest bidder | low bidder

adjudication to the lowest bid

lowest tenderer

lowest responsible bidder

social dumping

G. whereas since 2014 an estimated 5 000 Yazidis have been killed, while many others have been tortured or forcibly converted to Islam; whereas at least 2 000 Yazidi women have been enslaved, and made victims of forced marriage and trafficking; whereas girls as young as six have been raped and Yazidi children have been forcibly recruited as soldiers for the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’; whereas there is clear evidence of mass graves of Yazidi people abducted by the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’;

5. Rejects the use of the notion of ‘responsibility to protect’, as it violates international law and does not offer an adequate legal basis to justify the unilateral use of force, in many cases with the goal of regime change; condemns the unilateral assumption of the role of global police officer by powerful states such as the US or by NATO; also condemns so‑called selective airstrikes and the introduction of foreign troops on the ground; denounces NATO’s attempt to replace the pacification and stabilisation tasks that can only be implemented by broad consensus in the framework of the UN General Assembly;

(5a) Competitive tendering based on the lowest price principle leads to social dumping, often related to cheaper offers, thus saving at the expense of employees: lower wages, longer working hours, fewer personnel.

11. Wonders whether, against the background of increasing technological convergence, the provisions laid down by the Commission in its communication on the application of State aid rules to public service broadcasting, setting out complex procedures for assessing and analysing audiovisual services offered by public providers, which go beyond the scope of normal broadcasting activities and are made available on new platforms, are still appropriate, in particular given that it is increasingly difficult for users to tell whether the service concerned is a conventional linear broadcasting service, an on-demand service or another type of audi ...[+++]ovisual service;