The phrase "a competitive tender process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal procedure in which bids are invited from various suppliers or contractors to provide goods or services.
Example: "The company decided to initiate a competitive tender process to ensure they received the best value for their construction project."
Alternatives: "a bidding process" or "a procurement process".
Then, through a competitive tender process, the commissioner, the DWP in this instance, decides whether to award the contract.
A competitive tender process on who builds the submarines is expected to wrap up by mid-2016.
One senior local authority member said councils could face "substantial risk and cost" if they did not have a competitive tender process.
Channel 4 says that the contract was awarded fairly following a competitive tender process "with production companies with Formula One credentials", believed to include North One Television.
Following privatisation of Royal Mail, subsequent contracts will require a competitive tender process with no guarantee that the Post Office would retain this contract.
A spokesman for Finmeccanica said: "This contract was the result of a competitive tender process and is being delivered on time and on budget.
However, the personnel department at the Met insisted on a competitive tendering process.
But the commissioner appears to have been persuaded that the proposed £17.6bn of subsidies are legal under bloc rules, despite the lack of a competitive tendering process.
The threat comes from a competitive tendering process being adopted by local authorities, which charities say is weighted towards larger housing associations and businesses and ignores the lessons of four decades about the need to provide specialist, therapeutic support in refuges for women forced to flee for their lives.
National Grid said if it decided it needed the additional power, it would launch a competitive tendering process.
It reveals that in 2004, the PSNI awarded a contract for hiring agency staff worth £44m to a local company, Grafton Recruitment, without a competitive tendering process.
