Tender

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Tender may mean:

Contents 1 Finance 2 Transportation 3 Logistics 4 Health 5 Sports 6 Songs

[edit] 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.

[edit] Transportation

• Tender locomotive, a steam locomotive with a tender which is a type of railroad car hauled immediately after the locomotive and used to carry fuel and water
• Brake tender, a heavy railroad car placed next to a locomotive to provide additional brake power when working an unbraked freight train
• The Israeli name for a pickup truck (טנדר)
• A water tender or similar utility vehicle carrying firefighting or emergency response apparatus
• 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

[edit] Logistics

• The offer of goods for loading or transport

[edit] Health

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Songs

• "Tender (song)" by Blur
• "Shatter / Tender (abcprocure)]" by Feeder