Although most jobs, business tenders, public works contracts etc. are required by law to be advertised, in practice everyone knows who will get the job or contract – the person who has links to powerful people such as politicians, directors or administrators who either make the decisions or who have the power to influence decisions.
Utzon, however, maintained that drawings couldn't be done until prototypes had been tested, and asserted scornfully that there was no point in putting the job to tender, as only Symonds had a factory equipped to make the vast plywood sheets required.
Romney says the topic of jobs is "tender" and goes right to unemployment.
Its affirmative action plan, called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), gives black workers and entrepreneurs (the definition includes Africans, mixed-race people and Indians) preferential treatment in government jobs and tenders.
Now, via a mucker of Prince Chaza, she has been prodded into her first job at the tender age of 24.
To prevent them from getting too cosy with their clients, companies will be required to put the job out for tender once a decade, and pick a new auditor at least every 20 years.
It was only after I got my first job at the tender age of 16 that I really dove headfirst into the world of alcohol.
Compare with others by putting your job out to tender to at least three companies.
As he oversaw workers renovating a small Muslim prayer center in Georgetown — a job won through open tender — Ahmud Kairul Arif, 28, scorned the idea that as an ethnic Malay his business would need special help.
His job was called ditch tender, or sometimes "water god".
