"tendering exercise" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of submitting a bid in response to an invitation or offering of a contract. For example, "The company was pleased with the outcome of the tendering exercise and awarded the contract to the successful bidder."
Hertfordshire is one of 10 forces, including Hampshire, Kent and the City of London, in a joint competitive tendering exercise to replace the Forensic Science Service (FSS).
After receiving what it describes in its guide to overseas partnerships as "advice from senior Diplomatic Corps regional experts", Westminster made a bid for a contract to set up a university in Tashkent, and won the contract following a tendering exercise brokered by the British Council in July 2001.
In 2008, a four-year contract for the provision of temporary staff was awarded to Grafton following a competitive tendering exercise.
"However, I hope that tomorrow at the board meeting they have sought legal advice around these procurement issues and I hope that at the board meeting on the 31st that they'll be able to deal with these issues and get the procurement tendering exercise out there as soon as is humanly possible".
Across the public sector, suppliers frequently complain to me that they do not feel fairly treated in tendering exercises.
Professor David Salisbury, the Government's Director of Immunisation, said: "It's not unusual for the NHS to change vaccines or other medicines - it can happen following competitive tendering exercises or when new research findings come to light".
It was found that competitive tendering had generally been successful in terms of quality and costs, but problems had occurred in a number of cases, so careful attention must be paid to the design of tendering exercises, details of the contract, risk-sharing arrangements and the approach to any re-negotiation found to be necessary.
This abandoned tender exercise points to some deeper seated malaises in public sector contracting.
The Oregon jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore's "Penthouse Serenade" rippled with sunshine, and Tierney Sutton's "Beautiful Love" became a tender exercise in expressive tonal coloration that she seemed to model with her hands.
Lincolnshire county council, which had a £490m, 16-year agreement signed in 1999, has begun a re-tender exercise, while Rochdale, which signed a 15-year, £200m contract in 2006 has shifted the contract to a subcontractor, Agilisys.
Realistic, mock bids were submitted by members of the local community in a simulated tender exercise for enhanced cassowary habitat near Mission Beach, Australia.
