Cuando se trata de servicios se utiliza más concurso (por ejemplo de meritos)

English term (edited): tender // tender desk

el tender en sí es la oferta de títulos por parte del emisor (en el caso abajo el Banco Central Europeo) y el tender desk es la mesa de operaciones dedicada a la compra de estos títulos.

Los tenders son las subastas

The results on the “organisational proximity” show that the money market deposit desk is
closest to the tender desk. The repo desk only appears in the fourth position, which looks
strange, considering that the tender itself is a repo transaction. However, it has to be
remembered that in most banks the repo desk was historically part of the fixed income desk.

Several banks argued that the widening of the spreads seemed to be of a structural nature. They
argued that the size of the tender operations had grown significantly over the years and had now
reached a level that seemed to become somewhat problematic. They argued that the liquidity
needs for individual banks are now so high that the banks can no longer risk to receive no money
in the tender operations. This would, in their view, favour a behaviour by which banks rather
increase their bidding rates by a basis points than risk to “drop out” and not to receive any money
from the ECB, as the latter would mean that they would have to fund very large amounts in the
market.

This paper constructs an equilibrium model for the short-term money market, when the central bank provides liquidity via variable rate tenders. The relation between market rate of interest and liquidity