Tender may mean:

In finance:

• A process by which one can seek prices and terms for a particular project (such as a construction job) to be carried out under a contract. The sealed offers themselves, including company information, a project outline, and a price quote, are known as tenders or bids. See also: Tenders, reverse auction, Contract A and RFQ.
• Legal tender, a term used of currency
• tender offer - used to propose a buyout of a public company

In transport: Public Tenders are special procedures to award works contracts, supply contracts or service contracts. ... A reverse auction (also called procurement auction, e-auction, sourcing event, e-sourcing or eRA) is tool used in industrial business-to-business procurement. ... Contract A is a concept applied in Canadian contract law (a Common Law system country) which has recently been applied by courts regardin the fairness and equal treatment of bidders in a contract tendering process. ... For other meanings, see RFP (disambiguation) RFP is an acronym for request for proposal, a business term referring to a request for bids on a specific product or service. ... Legal tender or forced tender is payment that cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency by virtue of law. ... Tender offer is a term typically used in corporate finance to mean a public, open offer by an entity to buy stock from the existing stockholders of a publicly traded corporation under specific terms in effect for a specific period. ...

• Locomotive tender, a type of railroad car hauled immediately after the locomotive that contains fuel and water
• The Israeli name for a pickup truck
• One of several types of boat or ship, all sharing the general function of servicing another type of air or sea vessel:
  • destroyer tender – supplies and services destroyers
  • luxury yacht tender - supplies and services a private or charter luxury yacht
  • seaplane tender - supplies and services seaplanes
  • submarine tender - resupplies submarines
  • motor torpedo boat tender - resupplies motor torpedo boats
  • ship's tender - used to transport people and supplies to and from a large ship
  • dive tender - another name for Diving support vessel
  • lighthouse tender - used to tend lighthouses and, later, buoys

Other: A British tender locomotive Steam locomotives often haul a tender, which is a special railroad car designed to hold the locomotives fuel (wood or coal) and water. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... A boat is a craft or vessel designed to float on, and provide transport over, water. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft. ... Destroyer tender is a ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ... A luxury yacht tender is used to service and to provide support and entertainment to a private or charter luxury yacht. ... The term luxury yacht refers to a very expensive privately owned yacht which is professionally crewed. ... A seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship which provides the facililites necessary for operating seaplanes. ... A DeHavilland Single Otter floatplane in Harbour Air livery. ... A submarine tender is a type of ship that supplies and supports submarines. ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Gunter Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine Inside of the Argonaute, showing the typical obstructed, tiny space of a post-WWII diesel attack submarine. ... Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB) was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the US and Royal Navies. ... Lifeboat tender of the Oosterdam; note the face mask over the front windows, and the rolled-up tarp that can be brought down over the entry port to make the boat watertight A ships tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat used to service a ship... A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. ... A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. ... A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses, providing supplies, fuel, mail and transportation. ...

• A song "Tender" by Blur.

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