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Tendering is concerned with the commercial aspects of bidding for and obtaining work by contracting companies. The exchange of information by digital files and electronic communications has been normal practice within the defence sector for some time, indeed tender documentation has often been supported by the use of floppy disks, cdroms or even. Construction management, contract, tendering, budgeting. Estimating and tendering for construction work third edition martin brook bengtech fciob. These are the sources and citations used to research measuring, tendering and estimating. We recommend you study at a pace of one module per month, which should take you around 8 hours to complete.
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