Tendering is a bidding process that is used in a construction history for everything from medium-sized landscaping jobs to skyscraper construction. In tendering client and landscape designers put together a tender package which consists of drawing and specification. Later the legal request of the tender will be drafted. Finally, the contractors will be invited to go through a competitive bidding process.

Normally contractors who bid will be chosen in advance. For example, several contractors with a good reputation and are local or familiar to the job site will be chosen or put together all the qualifications for bidding and later make it a public tender. Normally the lowest bid will be chosen and that contractor will get the job and a contract will be signed to later. However depending on how the legal part of the tender is being structured so there might be some leeway to choose a bid which is based on a combination of factors.