The phrase "a direct tender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, contracts, or procurement, where it refers to a straightforward or explicit offer or bid.
Example: "The company submitted a direct tender for the construction project, ensuring all requirements were clearly outlined."
Alternatives: "a straightforward bid" or "an explicit offer".
[C6.] HOSTILE TAKEOVER BID Rebuffed by management at Take-Two Interactive, Electronic Arts began a direct tender offer to the company's shareholders.
A "direct tender" has enabled Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS foundation trust to purchase a patient records system at a cost more than £7m below the price paid by the Department of Health (DH).
"We were expecting any suppliers to adhere to that cap limit, and I know that it is quite a bit less than if it was purchased through the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), but I guess that is one of the advantages of going for a direct tender".
SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts, which on Thursday began a direct tender offer to shareholders of Take-Two Interactive, finds itself negotiating with a group of shareholders much different from what it would have faced a month ago, when it first proposed a takeover.
Imetal's tender offer was a direct bid to 8200 stockholders to buy any or all of their 2 1/2 million shares for $42.50 a share in cash.
After receiving a warm and well-deserved ovation Mr. Hough played a solo encore, a beautifully direct and tender account of Schumann's "Träumerei".
Giant pandas possess four out of five of these liabilities, but they also have one almighty advantage in a human-ravaged world – a direct line into our tender hearts.
Or the time Grisham lobbed a speaker at Tender Fury's former bass player, Robbie Allen, in a fit of not-so-tender fury, scoring a direct, injurious hit to Allen's back.
This is love at first sight, tender and unironic, physically expressed in a direct way, though without pornographic explicitness or coy fades to postcoital bliss.
The tender offer is on track to launch by the end of the month and includes a direct investment in the company, as well as the purchase of shares from employees and early investors.
