Sentence examples for annual tender from inspiring English sources

The national health service says that adopting the CFC's recommendations to consolidate its purchases into a single annual tender, allow foreign bidders and replace sealed bids with auctions has helped cut its costs by $3 billion over three years.

Instead, they introduced an annual tender for the routes.

UNICEF and WHO conduct a joint annual tender for antimalarial medicines based on current WHO malaria treatment guidelines.

This process increases the program's negotiating power with vendors, improving the chances of obtaining the best price available, in contrast to an annual tender process, which allows only for a single negotiation.

To illustrate the cost savings from the pooled procurement model, the authors have prepared the comparison below between the 2013 annual tender process in an East African country and the pooled procurement price in 2013 for two high-volume fixed-dose combination (FDC) ARVs.

The pooled procurement price for the adult formulation of Lamivudine/Nevirapine/Zidovudine (150/200/300 mg dispensed in 60 tabs) and for the pediatric equivalent (30/50/60 mg dispensed in 60 tabs) trended below the East African country's annual tender price, with modest differences at the start and a widening gap throughout the year 2013.

Determine whether the seeds are hardy annuals, half-hardy annuals or tender annuals.

This is a good year for practical gardening books, bringing, as it does, Michael A. Dirr's HYDRANGEAS FOR AMERICAN GARDENS (Timber, $29.95) and a valuable pair of books about annuals, Allan M. Armitage's ARMITAGE'S GARDEN ANNUALS: A Color Encyclopedia (Timber, $49.95) and Wayne Winterrowd's long-awaited ANNUAL AND TENDER PLANTS FOR NORTH AMERICAN GARDENS (Random House, $65).

Many garden centers discount annuals and tender perennials after the Fourth of July since the annuals will die and there is rarely space to carry over tender perennials for next year.

The fascination with annuals began as a curiosity about a decade ago and is now a full-fledged craze, with fancy annuals and tender perennials showing up at nurseries across North America.

Not all of the plants I use in my midsummer containers are annuals or tender perennials.