North had a tough choice over four spades, because she did not have a bid that invited a slam, and asked partner for a spade control.
The line, written by the real estate mogul Samuel Zell in an e-mail message last month, invited a rival bid topping a $48.50 a share offer for his Equity Office Properties, the biggest office landlord in the nation, with buildings in Manhattan, Chicago, Atlanta and other major cities.
If you require anything, the tender entity committee looks at it and approves it, then you go and invite bids, the bids come in, you open the bids in front of the public, and after that a committee is formed to evaluate the tenders, after evaluation, the tenders go to the tender entity committee for final approval… and a supplier is selected (Health Services Administrator).
In 2015, the GSA invited bids for a "development partner" on a Volpe Center redesign project; the GSA selected MIT as the winning bidder in November.
Mr Hammond announced a pot of £600m and invited bids from a range of projects but said only about half would be funded.
After years of deliberation and fierce opposition from the big three Orange, owned by the former monopoly, France Telecom; SFR, part of Vivendi, a media giant; and Bouygues Telecom, part of a conglomerate which also part-owns TF1 the government invited bids for a fourth mobile licence on August 1st.
Last year it invited bids for an innovatory mobile service that could find and guide future pilgrims.
In February, Pakistan invited bids for an Internet filtering system that could block up to 50 million URLs (the idea was shelved following a backlash from civil society).
North was slightly pushy in bidding four no-trump, but he did not have a good way to invite a slam when his partner bid hearts in response to the takeout double of three diamonds.
The Scottish government set up a Film Studio Delivery Group in 2013 which invited bids to create a studio in Scotland.
