Therefore a bid of 4 (Gerber convention) is used in many partnerships to ask for aces in no trump sequences.

In both cases, an initial bid of 4NT (No trumps) is commonly used as the conventional bid to ask partner about their high cards.

Like Blackwood, a follow-on bid may be used in Gerber to ask for kings.

Pass-or-correct bids are generally used as responses to multiway bids.

A sealed bid is used when several people are interested in the same property.

He said he felt that sealed bids should only be used in cases of extremely hot markets.

The bid is the sum of each team members single bid and is used to determine the total "team bid."

If no bids are offered, and analysts said that is a real possibility, the minimum bid would be used to determine the stranded cost.

Open Bid: An open bid is used for public projects.

Closed Bid: A closed bid is used for private projects.