The phrase "an open tender process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a competitive bidding procedure that is transparent and accessible to all interested parties.
Example: "The government has announced an open tender process for the construction of the new bridge, inviting bids from qualified contractors."
Alternatives: "a public bidding process" or "a competitive tendering process".
Mr Javid said the Government wanted to increase public procurement contents to British steelmakers but said this would have to be done through an open tender process.
However, the report reserved its strongest criticism for the handling of an open tender process that began under the Abbott government.
The BBC said that it was legally bound to go through an open tender process to get the best service and value for money for television licence-fee payers.
Burnham said last night: "Mr Gove has built a narrow clique at the heart of Government by making political appointments to civil service positions and giving large contracts to former advisers without an open tender process".
The BBC announced on Friday that it is no longer considering the Met Office in an open tender process for a new five-year contract to supply radio and TV weather reports to the broadcaster beginning in the autumn of 2016.
It could not reconcile promises made to South Australian Liberal backbenchers to have an open tender process for Australia's new submarines, with the formulation of defence minister Kevin Andrews at a press conference with the same South Australian backbenchers that it was a "competitive evaluation process".
The GP Patient Survey was commissioned by the UK Department of Health following an open tendering process.
We are legally required to go through an open-tender process and take forward the strongest bids to make sure we secure both the best possible service and value for money for the licence fee payer".
The report said the department failed to demonstrate value for money in either of the initial limited tender processes or in the subsequent open tender process, which began in 2015 and was abandoned on 29 July 2016, after the department failed to assure a steering committee its renegotiated agreement with Transfield represented value for money.
A spokeswoman for the Met Office said that there was unlikely to be any link between the ending of its BBC contract and the radio programme given that it was aired at the beginning of August, while the open tender process for the BBC weather forecasts has been ongoing for several months.
The audit said the failures in the open tender process, conducted under the Abbott-Turnbull government, were of "most concern," finding the department allowed Transfield to negotiate a $1.1bn increase in the value of the contract without checking whether it had the authority to agree to that increase or whether other tenderers could best that price.
