Tender 

Tender is an officer which incorporates the sum of money, time,and other conditions required to carry out the contract obligations in order to complete a project or a part of consisting of specified works.

 Necessity of Tender 

• Lower bids that may be obtained due to competition among the contractors. 
• Selection of contractors can be made based upon their experience in their line.

Application of R.C.C.

1. Construction of structural elements such as footing, beams, columns,  slabs,  curved roofs, stairs, lintel ,chejjas.
2. Construction of water tanks, storage bins, bunkers, multistoried buildings, etc.
3. Making raft foundation and pile foundation. 
4. Construction of roads and airport runways. 

Function of R.C.C.

1. To resist  the bending moment in flexural member like slabs, beams  etc.
2. To resist diagonal tension due to shear.
3. To increase the load carrying capacity of compression members  like columns.
4. To reduce the shrinkage of concrete.
5. To resist the effect of  secondary stress like temperature etc.
6. To resist spiral cracking due to torsion.