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to rebid

to rebid

4.3
To make another offer after someone rejects your first bid
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈbɪd/
translation icon : volver a ofertar
  • You know, we're gonna cancel this contract and, you know, rebid it, you know, for, you know, to someone else.
  • rebid the contract

You know, we're gonna cancel this contract and, you know, rebid it, you know, for, you know, to someone else.

Examples

  • It's not important to determine who failed to include every conceivable charge in the contract with CPI, but it is important to find out if there are other missing charges in the contract and then to rebid those parts out.

    Blog text (9)

  • In fact, the U.S. Government Procurement System has created a hostile environment in the defense contracting world where every year a contractor must go out and rebid its supplier contracts.

    Academic text (1993)

  • After receiving no suitable offers, the city decided to rebid the construction project to attract more contractors.

  • The company had to rebid for the contract after their first proposal was rejected due to budget constraints.

  • In order to increase competition, the team will rebid the service contract next month after the initial bids were deemed unsatisfactory.

Synonyms

to repropose
vsto rebid
7.0

To suggest an idea again after people refused it

presents a new price or terms after an earlier attempt failed or was rejected

Surface Forms

rebid infinitive
rebid past
rebid past participle
rebidding present participle
rebids third person singular

Morphology

rebid = bid (transparent) = re + bid

This is a standard and fully compositional use of 're-' meaning 'again' added to the verb 'bid'.

Etymology

The word rebid comes from the parts re- 'again' and bid 'offer', just like in redo or replay. So to rebid is to make an 'offer' again after the first one was rejected or did not win.