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Somewhere along the line, 161 amendments suggested by the GOP were accepted and became a part of the Senate Finance Committee's version of the proposed legislation. If that's not at least some bi-partisanship, I don't know what it should be called.
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When looking at quantitative numbers there are enough amendments to fool the casual observer into thinking that a bipartisanship effort was made. However, when you scratch below the surface, most of the amendments were technical in nature (minor wording changes, etc.) Also, there were many hundreds of amendments from the GOP that were rejected. I'm sure the Dems had it calculated to put a bi-partisan face on a bill that they essentially kept lockstep with their ultimate objectives. You may not know what it is called other than bipartisanship, but to me it looks like window dressing to give the media some talking points to use against the Republicans.