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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-early-model-competitive-tenders-for-onshore-transmission-licences-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/446",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Early-Model Competitive Tenders for Onshore Transmission Licences) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-early-model-competitive-tenders-for-onshore-transmission-licences-regulations-2025",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSections 6C-6CD of the Electricity Act 1989 (“the Act”) enable the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (“the Authority”) to make regulations in respect of competitive tenders for a “relevant electricity project” as defined in section 6BA(1) of the Act. Projects competitively tendered under this instrument will be those where the design, construction and delivery of the project is to be tendered.\nTenders must be run by a “delivery body” with some key decision-making by the Authority in the tender process. The Authority is also responsible for conducting the licence application process in respect to the grant of a transmission licence to a “successful bidder” at the end of the tender exercise.\nThe competitive tender exercise comprises the following stages:\nA pre-qualification stage for the delivery body to determine which bidders are to become qualifying bidders (regulations 10 & 11),\nAn invitation to tender stage for the delivery body to determine which qualifying bidder is to be selected to become the preferred bidder (regulations 12 & 13),\nWhere the delivery body determines, in accordance with the criteria set out in the invitation to tender documentation, that there is to be a best and final offer stage (regulation 14),\nA delivery body functions assessment stage for the Authority to review the exercise by the delivery body of the functions conferred on it by this instrument (regulation 15), and\nA preferred bidder stage for the delivery body to determine the successful bidder of the tender exercise, who will be proposed to be granted on onshore transmission licence in respect of the qualifying project subject to this instrument (regulations 16-18).\nA full Impact Assessment was published alongside the Electricity (Designation of Delivery Bodies) (Transmission) Regulations 2023 (S.I 2023/1228) that covers the impacts of introducing a competitive tender process to the electricity onshore network, as now implemented by these Regulations. The impact assessment is available from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero at 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, S1A 2EG and is published with the Electricity (Designation of Delivery Bodies) (Transmission) Regulations 2023 on legislation.gov.uk.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/446/note",
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  "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."
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