The phrase "open proposal" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used when referring to an offer for a business agreement that other parties are able to accept or reject. For example: "The company made an open proposal to its competitors, suggesting a joint venture that would increase profitability across the industry."
To view UCSF Open Proposals, see: http://open-proposals.ucsf.edu This project and publication was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through UCSF-CTSI Grant Number UL1 TR000004.
The entire process was enabled by an online "Open Proposals" platform that implemented these features, built off the popular open source Drupal software.
Research is commissioned through contracts or distributed as grants through open proposals to projects, to institutions or individuals as fellowships or travel awards.
Over the past year, CTSI's use of the Open Proposals platform at UCSF garnered attention from others at the University and beyond.
Over the past four years, we used evolving versions of the "Open Proposals" platform to solicit proposals for eight opportunities to add to our portfolio of activities to improve research resources at the university (Table 1A).
The Open Proposals approach allows us to gain the best features of bottom-up approaches to innovation while still allowing iterative improvement, fluid team formation, and full integration with existing programs and personnel.
Now Miss Cruickshank told Isobel the whole family did not share Larry's heartless sentiments and she hoped Isobel might reconsider Lord Merton's still-open proposal.
Under the current contract, negotiations were not due to start until June 13 , 2002 but at the pilots' request, the two sides will exchange opening proposals in January 2002.
Although opening proposals are only starting points in negotiations, the pointed letter to members suggests that these negotiations could be the most contentious since the WGA staged a 100-day strike in late 2007.
