The Electricity (Competitive Tenders for Offshore Transmission Licences) Regulations 2015

Particular obligations of the developer from preferred bidder stage

22.  In order to facilitate the making of the Authority’s determination of the successful bidder to whom an offshore transmission licence is to be granted in respect of a particular qualifying project in accordance with regulation 28(2), the developer must from the date of the notice given in accordance with regulation 21(6) use its reasonable endeavours to—

(a) enable the preferred bidder to resolve the matters specified in the notice given in accordance with regulation 21(6) to the extent that the resolution of those matters depends on the actions of the developer;

(b) in respect of a generator build qualifying project, enable the transmission assets to be transferred to the successful bidder; and

(c) in respect of an OFTO build qualifying project—

(i) enable the notified preliminary works to be transferred to the successful bidder; and

(ii) enable each construction phase contract, if any, to be executed by, or novated to, or enable the benefit of that contract to be transferred to, the successful bidder or a person nominated by the successful bidder.