An ad was placed in the Louisville Times Paper on December 4, 1978 requesting bids.

The next year, he said, the state had requested bids from several companies and had selected Cigna.

Then they requested bids for a feasibility study on whether merging the data-processing operations was a good idea.

In 2000, when the state requested bids on leases, four of the five parcels were soon leased to developers.

After requesting additional bids for the coverage, two other brokers responded with premium offers of $110,000 and $78,000.

City officials said they would begin requesting bids this spring from private-sector companies to install and manage the system.

Mr. Ryan said the city was close to requesting bids from contractors, and wanted to begin the work as soon as possible.

TCDD requested bids for the name of the high-speed service.

They requested bids from towns in the state for the location for the school.

The project team worked for about a year and a half to gather data and analyze the job even before the government formally requested bids.