The Committee of Bidding of the Superintendence of Electricity (SIE) stated desert the process of bidding for purchase up to 900 MW of electricity through long-term contracts, due to a price offer higher than those stipulated in its specifications.
Analyzed the offers, the committee resolved “declare void the bidding public for the purchase and sale of energy for existing generation, up to 900 MW, through long-term contracts, EDES-LP-GE-01-2022, as a consequence of the fact that the economic offers presented and read in the act of presentation of offers; opening of non-economic offers and economic offers of the biddingas of 11/24/2022, they were superior at the maximum allowable cost”.
Thus it was established in the resolution RC-17-2022 last November 29.
The maximum cost allowable was 0.1270 US$/kWh, while the lower maximum allowable cost that was set for the process was 0.1143 US$/kWh. However, the participating companies offered costs ranging from US$133,707/MWh to US$215,140/MWh.
Bidders
eight companies signed up to participate in the bidding, opened by resolution SIE-16-2022-LCE, dated November 3. Of those, seven came to present offers. They are: Itabo Electricity Generating Company, AES Andrés, Dominican Power Partners, Haina Electricity Generating Company, Laesa LTD, Los Orígenes Power Plant and Palamara La Vega Generator.
Of the group, two were disqualified because they submitted conditional offers and contrary to the energy calculation methodology established in the bases of the bidding.
The declaration of desert It was made based on article 57 of the energy purchase and sale bidding regulations, which, among other things, provides for making that decision when the economic offers do not meet the established requirements.
