As the auction ended, two Mercedes fire engines, a trove of chandeliers and ornamental lampposts and simulators for a Comanche attack helicopter, an Airbus A340 and a Formula One racing car were still available through private tenders.
In addition, the study identifies critical conditions for the uptake in climate services: (1) a coordinated delivery of data, information, expertise and training by public research institutes concerned with climate change and its impacts; (2) the inclusion of adaptation in the regulation and in public and private tenders.
Its forwardness establishes the fundamental equipoise of the French Baroque: Rameau, brilliant and imposing; Couperin, wistful, private, tender, heartbreaking.
Some GP surgeries could lose up 15 per cent of their income from April, as health commissioning groups prepare put minor surgery and other services out to private tender.
So in the spirit of the late Elizabethan age, would it not be appropriate now to put her office out to private tender?
Within the next few months, the government plans to offer a private tender for a new service between Santiago and Melipilla, a town 60km south-west of the capital.
The entrance to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, which was built in the 1970s under a private tender but reverted to government control in 1999, is permanently gridlocked, partly thanks to tolls that are too low, especially at peak hours.
The project has been controversial because it was awarded to Pacific Century, which is now the city's largest phone company, through a private tender instead of through the land auction system on which Hong Kong usually relies.
No minister has got up in public and proclaimed the virtues of the Private Finance Initiative, no party has won support on the back of putting things out to private tender, and, most ignominiously of all, no party mentioned in the 2010 election the massive and confused restructuring that was the recent Health and Social Care Act.
Her luminous pastel, "A Caress," and her Japanese-influenced etching, "In the Omnibus," both from the early 1890s, depict mothers with their infants, the first in a private, tender moment, the second in a public conveyance with a servant on hand to carry the child.
Oxfordshire's podiatry and audiology services are due to be put out to private tender.
