Object

• process: A national tendering process was carried out to identify the 27 pilot programs.

Converse of object

• invite: An advert was placed in the OJEC in early March inviting tenders with a closing date of 23rd April 2004.

• submit: It will be entirely at their discretion whether or not they wish to submit a tender in due course.

• advertize: We will continue to advertize tenders in professional and local publications.

• win: Three Optare Solos have been ordered for recently won tenders in Oxford due to commence on 4th June.

Adjective modifier

• advantageous: The NAO will award work to the economically most advantageous tender.

• competitive: The following contracts are being put out to competitive tender.

• legal: No; all Bank of England notes whether legal tender or not retain their face value for all time.

• sealed: As you know recently we submitted a sealed tender to acquire a freehold day center in Edgware, North London.

Modifies a noun

• mercy: Shall I go astray after so much loving kindness and tender mercy?

• perennial: There is no shortage of plants to choose from among hardy and half-hardy annuals or hardy and tender perennials.

• affection: Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another.

• lamb: The Lamb Karahi contained a good quantity of tender lamb and a pleasant and not overpowering curry sauce.

• age: In 1983, at the tender age of 26, he shot himself.

• conscience: There is a twofold shame: the shame of a guilty conscience, and the shame of a tender conscience.

Noun used with modifier

• gallon: The 3500 gallon tenders recovered from the Us were altered to suit the left hand drive of the Qs.

• bogie: Lastly, some of the Urie bogie tenders and all of the straight-sided bogie ones had vacuum storage cylinders behind the coal space.

• cargo: If you can imagine, the tons of food and equipment are brought to the jetty in a small cargo tender.

• lighthouse: It contains most of the books published in the world about lighthouses, light vessels and lighthouse tenders.

Preposition: for

• contract: DH invited manufacturers to tender for a contract to supply pandemic flu vaccine once the pandemic strain is known.