The phrase "a single bid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to auctions, proposals, or offers where only one bid is being considered or made.
Example: "After reviewing all the proposals, we decided to accept a single bid that met our requirements."
Alternatives: "one bid" or "a lone bid".
It dropped dead without attracting a single bid.
Then there was a rare, early Turner that did not get a single bid.
A single bid of $1,000£47575), the reserve price, was registered by an anonymous buyer.
You need up to six credits to make a single bid.
But auctions in which only a single bid are placed are rare.
Although the work is a masterpiece, not a single bid came in.
As the current market design, with a single bidding area, ignores the physical constraints of the transmission grid, there is an ongoing discussion about introducing price zones.
When the U-20 Women's World Cup is held the year before the Women's World Cup, both tournaments are awarded in a single bidding process, with the U-20 tournament serving as a dress rehearsal for the larger competition.
A signature from a player like Penn, who was briefly a top prospect in the Baltimore organization before compiling a 9.51 earned run average in parts of four seasons, is susceptible to a single-bid auction.
It is also robust against buyer multi-identity bidding by discouraging a bidder splitting his single bid for a larger bundle into several bids under multiple bidder identities for smaller bundles because the BVA favors bids for larger bundles with earlier considerations and cheaper prices.
The second-largest single bid is a $894 million commitment from T-Mobile for a swath of airspace over the Western U.S. In a note issued Thursday, Citigroup analyst Michael Rollins wrote that recent bidding activity could lead to increasing competition in urban markets, thank to carriers such as Leap Wireless and MetroPCS bidding on licenses that include several larger cities.
