The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012

Second requirement

3.—(1) Taking the base prices for the winning principal stage bids together, the base prices shall be such that if—

(a) the amount bid by each winning bidder in respect of its winning principal stage bid had been the base price rather than the amount of its winning principal stage bid (“reduced winning principal stage bid”), and

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (2), the amount bid by each winning bidder in respect of each other valid principal stage bid made by that bidder had been reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the amount of its winning principal stage bid and the base price for that winning principal stage bid,

the combination of the reduced winning principal stage bids submitted by the winning bidders would have been the valid combination of principal stage bids or one of the valid combinations of principal stage bids (as the case may be) for which the total value of the combination calculated in accordance with regulation 67(9) is the highest.

(2) Where the amount of a bid has been reduced in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b) and is less than the total of the round prices in the first primary bid round for the lots included in the selection of lots specified in that bid, the amount of that bid shall be treated as if it were the total of the round prices in the first primary bid round for the lots included in the selection of lots specified in that bid for the purposes of this paragraph.

(3) The bids mentioned in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) shall, after reduction of the amount of those bids in accordance with those paragraphs, be treated as valid principal stage bids for the purposes of this paragraph.