{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-competitive-tenders-for-offshore-transmission-licences-regulations-2015/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-competitive-tenders-for-offshore-transmission-licences-regulations-2015/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1555",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Competitive Tenders for Offshore Transmission Licences) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-competitive-tenders-for-offshore-transmission-licences-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Qualification to tender",
  "text": "(1) In respect of the qualification to tender stage the Authority must publish—\n(a) the confidentiality agreement in respect of each qualifying project to be signed and submitted to the Authority by qualifying bidders; and\n(b) any instructions that apply to the confidentiality agreement including the date, time and manner in which that confidentiality agreement is to be submitted to the Authority.\n(2) As soon as reasonably practicable after a qualifying bidder has submitted one or more signed confidentiality agreements in respect of particular qualifying projects to the Authority, the Authority must issue to that qualifying bidder the qualification to tender documentation, which must include the information specified in Schedule 4.\n(3) The Authority must invite all qualifying bidders who have been issued the qualification to tender documentation in accordance with paragraph (2) to submit a completed qualification to tender questionnaire in respect of one or more qualifying projects in accordance with the requirements set out in the qualification to tender documentation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 3.8.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1555/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:31.181005+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."
}