Tender

Tender may mean:

Finance

A process by which one can seek prices and terms for a particular project (such as a construction job) to be carried out under a contract. The sealed offers themselves, including company information, a project outline, and a price quote, are known as tenders or bids. See also: reverse auction, contract A and Request for Quotation (RFQ).

• legal tender, a term for currency
• tender offer, used to propose a buyout of a public company
• tendering, or call for bids, can also be referred to as Public Procurement, a way in which Bodies governed by Public Law (such as Local Authorities, schools, hospitals, utilities...) buy what they need for their activities. Tenders are governed by EU as well as the various countries legislation.

Transportation

• Tender (railroad car), a type of railroad car hauled immediately after the locomotive and used to carry fuel and water
• One of several types of boat or ship, all sharing the general function of servicing another type of air or sea vessel:
• buoy tender, used to maintain Aids to Navigation (Aton) including buoys.
• lighthouse tender, used to tend lighthouses and, later, buoys
• destroyer tender
• luxury yacht tender
• seaplane tender
• submarine tender
• motor torpedo boat tender, used to service motor torpedo boats
• ship's tender, used to transport people and supplies to and from a large ship
• dive tender, another name for a diving support vessel
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Logistics

• The offer of goods for loading or transport

Health

• The consumption of toxic substances to the point of becoming raw

Sports

• The 2007 World Beach Bocce champions - Beyond Tender (T. Hadley , B. Hirst)
• The 2007 Manhattan Beach Bocce Champions - Beyond Tender (T. Hadley, B. Hirst)

Songs

• "Tender" by Blur
• "Shatter / Tender" by Feeder