Bids...

Hi,

Bids for the proposal must be received prior to the March first deadline.

Can any teacher explain this sentence. I don't know if a proposal has something to do with a bid.

I would expect it to be Bids must be received prior to the March 1st. deadline.

If necessary, one mi

I think the writer may have been a little too casual in the use of proposal, but a company may resond to RFPs, which are "Requests for Proposals." The response they prepare can also be thought of as their bid. So all this means is that the companies who wish to offer a bid must resond by the deadline. It would be more clearly written as "Bids in response to the request for proposals..."

I understand now. Thanks.

LCChang

very loosely speaking
bids=proposals
see e.g.:
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bid

1 a : the act of one who bids : an offer of a price (as at an auction)
: a statement of what one will give or do for something to be received
or will take for something to be done or furnished b : something
offered as a bid


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