"joined the bid" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when talking about joining a competitive offer or proposing a group effort. For example: "Several business partners joined the bid to win the government contract."
On Sunday, Israel joined the bid to find the hundreds of teenagers abducted from their dormitory in Nigeria's restive north-east.
Mr. Sexton was a sanitation commissioner under Mayor Edward I. Koch and was president of the Municipal Art Society from 1995 until he joined the BID when GRETCHEN DYKSTRA moved to California.
If someone places an order into that market with that existing bid as spread to buy at $25.10, they've simply joined the bid right?
Two further suitors joined the bidding for Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico, Spain's fourth-largest electricity utility.
For $2.99 I could have joined the bidding on a beer-bottle-shaped Nets tap handle.
NYSE Euronext joined the bidding for the London Metal Exchange, but dropped out of the race early as the potential price rose.
A group of private-equity investors has joined the bidding for The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, a member of the group said yesterday.
Mr. O'Brien did not take it lightly that someone who had joined the bidding contest after him and had less experience in telecommunications beat him to the punch.
When the city ignored their pleas and put the building up for sale, Nos Quedamos joined the bidding, but lost out to Liberty Square.
"We joined the bidding for the papers to try and ensure that these Philadelphia institutions would continue to serve the community we love," said the financier Ronald O. Perelman and his father, the philanthropist Raymond Perelman, who both joined the local group this week.
Mannesmann also joined the bidding for Cablecom, Switzerland's biggest cable company, valued at around $3 billion.See article: Europe's mobile leadFrance Telecom agreed to acquire a 60% stake in E-Plus, Germany's third-biggest mobile operator, for euro7.4 billion ($8.0 billion).
