The Electricity (Competitive Tenders for Offshore Transmission Licences) Regulations 2013

Invitation to tender

17.—(1) In respect of the invitation to tender stage, the Authority shall give notice to all qualifying bidders of the amount of payment payable to the Authority as calculated in accordance with its cost recovery methodology in relation to the invitation to tender stage.

(2) The Authority may give notice to the developer of a particular qualifying project of the amount of payment payable by the developer to the Authority, if any, as calculated in accordance with its cost recovery methodology in relation to reimbursing a qualifying bidder, preferred bidder, reserve bidder or successful bidder’s bid costs or a proportion of those bid costs in accordance with regulation 25(4) if any of the events in paragraph (a) of Schedule 7 or paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of Schedule 8 should occur in respect of that qualifying project and the Authority has published a notice cancelling that tender exercise from the tender round in accordance with regulation 23(3) or 24(1).

(3) As soon as reasonably practicable after a qualifying bidder has made the payment referred to in paragraph (1), the Authority shall issue to that qualifying bidder the invitation to tender documentation, which shall include the information specified in Schedule 5.

(4) The Authority shall invite all qualifying bidders who have been issued the invitation to tender documentation in accordance with paragraph (3) to submit a tender in respect of one or more qualifying projects in accordance with the requirements set out in the invitation to tender documentation.

(5) The submission of a tender by a qualifying bidder is an application for the grant of an offshore transmission licence to that qualifying bidder where that qualifying bidder becomes the successful bidder in accordance with these Regulations.