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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-competitive-tenders-for-smart-meter-communication-licences-regulations-2012/schedule-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2414",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Competitive Tenders for Smart Meter Communication Licences) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-competitive-tenders-for-smart-meter-communication-licences-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Events of cancellation",
  "text": "The events in this Schedule are—\n(a) the competent authority does not receive any completed and compliant qualification questionnaires in accordance with regulation 9, or only receives one such questionnaire;\n(b) the competent authority determines that there are no bidders, qualifying bidders or, where appropriate, selected qualifying bidders, or that there is only one of any of these;\n(c) only one qualifying bidder or, where appropriate, selected qualifying bidder remains in the tender exercise after the disqualification or withdrawal of another qualifying bidder or selected qualifying bidder;\n(d) the competent authority does not receive any completed and compliant proposals in accordance with regulation 12;\n(e) the competent authority does not receive any compliant best and final offers in accordance with regulation 16;\n(f) the competent authority determines it is not appropriate to appoint a preferred bidder when evaluating the best and final offers in accordance with regulation 16;\n(g) a preferred applicant withdraws or is disqualified from a tender exercise and the competent authority has not determined a reserve applicant;\n(h) the matters referred to in accordance with regulation 17(2)(a) in the notice given under paragraph (1) of that regulation are not satisfied by a preferred applicant and the competent authority has not determined a reserve applicant;\n(i) the reserve applicant (where only one is appointed) withdraws or is disqualified from a tender exercise or both reserve applicants (where two are appointed) withdraw or are disqualified from a tender exercise after a preferred applicant has withdrawn or been disqualified from that tender exercise, or after a preferred applicant has failed to satisfy the matters referred to in accordance with regulation 17(2)(a) in the notice given under paragraph (1) of that regulation;\n(j) the matters referred to in accordance with regulation 17(2)(a) in the notice given under paragraph (1) of that regulation are not satisfied by a reserve applicant and the preferred applicant has withdrawn or been disqualified from that tender exercise, or the preferred applicant has failed to satisfy those matters;\n(k) a successful applicant withdraws from the tender exercise;\n(l) the competent authority determines that it would not be appropriate to grant a smart meter gas licence and a smart meter electricity licence to any qualifying bidder;\n(m) the competent authority determines that—\n(i) the regulated business information has varied from the regulated business information—\n(aa) which was provided in a previous stage of the tender exercise; or\n(bb) issued at the beginning of a tender stage, where the variation occurs during that stage of the tender exercise but after the required date and time for the submission to the competent authority of, as the case may be in that stage, the qualification questionnaire, proposal or best and final offer;\nand\n(ii) the extent of that variation is such that continuing with the tender exercise would not be fair and equitable to any qualifying bidder or bidder;\n(n) the competent authority determines that the dialogue phase of the best and final offer stage is not likely to reach a satisfactory conclusion in accordance with the rules for that stage contained in the best and final offer documentation; or\n(o) the competent authority determines that—\n(i) the tender exercise has been compromised by the act or omission of (or on behalf of) any tender participant; and\n(ii) in the circumstances, a competitive determination of the person to whom a gas smart meter communication licence and an electricity smart meter communication licence are to be granted cannot be ensured by continuing with the tender exercise.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 in force at 12.10.2012, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2414/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:18:35.142501+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}