The phrase "competitive tendering process" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a process in which companies bid against each other for a contract to provide goods or services to another company or to the government. For example: In order to determine the best supplier for our new office supplies, we conducted a competitive tendering process to ensure that we secured the best terms.
The competitive tendering process was immediately abandoned.
However, the personnel department at the Met insisted on a competitive tendering process.
Yet giving other healthcare businesses a share of the action after a transparent competitive tendering process is deemed by some to be a cause of great public angst.
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 Home Office said that forces involved in the competitive tendering process, overseen by the National Police Improvement Agency and the Association of Chief Police Officers, were not rushed into a decision.
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.
It is scaremongering to claim that Monitor, the regulator, will run some kind of tyrannical rounding up of commissioning groups who haven't produced enough competitive tendering processes.
In any case, this would be quite impracticable because each group could be handling up to 600 contracts a year and they do not have the staff to run competitive tendering processes for such a large number.
RfI can only bring full benefits if the government has the will and capacity to credibly negotiate the RfI contract based on proper valuation and competitive tendering processes.
