Fonte: ANEEL
The bid invitation of the Transmission Auction No. 002/2012, which will be held on 09/03 at the headquarters of BMF&BOVESPA in São Paulo, was approved today (07/02) by the board of the National Agency for Electrical Energy (ANEEL), during a public meeting.

To be auctioned are: five lots with eight transmission lines, with a total of 1,697 kilometers (km), and seven substations with 1,710 mega volt-amperes (MVA) of power. The projects will require R$ 2.9 billion in investments, generating 11.6 thousand direct jobs.

The deadline for the works will range from 18 to 32 months. The maximum Allowed Annual Revenue* predicted by ANEEL for all lots is that of R$ 363.9 million, a figure that is expected to fall with bidding in the auction.

The transmission facilities will be built in six Brazilian states: Amazonas, Bahia, Mato Grosso,Goiás, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Check here for the description of the lots.

The C Lotof the Transmission Auction No. 006/2011, without any stakeholders last December, is returning as the C Lot of Auction No. 002/2012, accrued from the Lechuga substation, in Amazonas. According to the technical area, the substation had still not been approved at the time.

Documents related to the auction, such as the bid invitation and the public service concession contract, will be available on the Agency website, in the Entrepreneurs’ Space section, under Transmission Bid Invitations, or here.

Functioning of the auction– The financial proposal with the RAP value for each lot shall be submitted in a sealed envelope by the participant. All registered applicants who are qualified to bid on the lot must submit a proposal to the auctioneer at the time of the event, including those who may have lost interest in the bid – in this case, a refusal on the presented proposal should be put in the envelope. If the difference between the lowest bid and the other bids is greater than 5%, the lowest bidder wins the tender. If the difference is less than or equal to 5% or if there is a tie among the lowest bids, there will be an out-loud round, in which the auctioneer may set minimum values ​​to be provided between one bid and the other. The bidder submitting the lowest bid will win. In the case of no bidder bidding aloud, the bidder who has submitted the lowest bid by envelope will be the winner. If there is a tie in values ​​submitted in the silent auction, the winner will be determined by raffle as carried out by the session’s director. To promote competition, possible exclusion may occur from any lot for which there is only one bidder able to compete, following demonstrations from the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME). In the case of the lot being kept, a Reciept of Reservation with a value less than the maximum RAP will be adopted, which is also fixed in the bid invitation, as a means towards a minimal discount.
 
Guarantees-To participate in the auction, bidders entered with a guarantee of 1% of the investment value estimated by ANEEL. The Guarantee of Faithful Fulfillment is provided only by the auction’s winners, substituting the earlier guarantee. It corresponds to 5% of the investment value and should be provided up to two business days before the signing the contract.

Schedule– For the bid invitation’s schedule, due to be published in tomorrow’s Official Journal of the Union (08/02), the final deadline for requesting clarifications on the bid invitation will be 23/02. The Special Bidding Committee (CEL) will have until 1/03 to provide responses to them. 01/03 will also be the deadline for requests to visit existing facilities, which may be made up to 05/03. Registrations will take place ​​online, on ANEEL’s website, from 8am on 06/03, to 2pm on 07/03. Applications for the proposed guarantee, also online, will take place from 9am on 06/03 to 4pm on 07/03. The delivery of the guarantees will take place on 07/03 until 4pm, at the BM&FBOVESPA, for those without digital certification, and at ANEEL, for those with escrow accounts. On 08/03, the CEL will announce the bidders who will participate in the auction.

Afterthe event, winning bidders must submit the documents for the qualifying phase during the period of 12/03 to 16/03, at the BM&FBovespa. On 23/03, ANEEL’s Special Bidding Committee (CEL) is to disclose the results of the qualification. The approval and awarding of the concession are planned for 03/04. The final deadline for delivery of the schedule and of the budget for construction of the facilities is 16/04, the date on which the SPE and the transmission concessionaire documents will be required for the concession contract. Two working days before the date set for the signing of the concession contract, the entrepreneurs must submit theguarantee of faithful fulfillment. The contracts are to be signed within 14 days from the convocation date.

Changes– In relation to the scheduling of previous auctions, the main change is the exclusion of the stage of conferring concessions, which is considered merely symbolic. With the modification, the set date for the signing of the concession contracts will be brought forward by about 40 (forty) days, contributing to the speedy implantation of new transmission facilities in the country. (BT/PG)

*Allowed Annual Revenue– Annual revenue, resulting from the winning bid, to which the concessionaire is entitled for the provision of the public service of transmission from the commercial operation of transmission facilities.  ANEEL Normative Resolution No. 230, from September 12, 2006 (Official Journal from September 13, 2006, section 1, p. 56).