Unlike a traditional tender where carriers submit sealed, fixed-price bids, a reverse auction inverts the price discovery process: the shipper posts a transport requirement on a platform and competing service providers submit successive lower offers until the lowest acceptable bid prevails.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_auction
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