Dutch Borssele Offshore Wind Project: DONG Energy July 2016 bid
An update on DONG Energy’s July 2016 multi-bid strategy.
Update
In our previous update on the Dutch Borssele Offshore Wind Project, we reported that the tenders for Borssele Wind Farms Sites I & II were both awarded to DONG Energy, which was chosen ahead of 37 other competing bids. It has now come to light that, as part of the July 2016 tender process, DONG Energy submitted more than half of the bids (21 of the 38 bids submitted), by submitting 21 applications for tender, each through a special purpose DONG Energy entity.
Under the tender regulations that applied to Borssele Sites I & II, an entity was permitted to submit an application for both sites separately and for both sites on a bundled basis. A bundled application was treated as one application and had to be either awarded in full or rejected in full. To win, the bid of the bundled application had to be ranked equal to the highest ranked non-bundled bid on each of the respective sites.
