Macedonia Opens Bids Received for DVB-T

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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On 4th of February, 2009 the Public opening of the Bids submitted upon the Public tender on granting of one Authorisation for radio frequency utilisation for 3 multiplexes for provision of radiocommunication service – transmission of digital television services via public communication network (DVB-T) on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia in the radio frequency band 470 – 862MHz was held in the Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK).

The Public opening of the Bids was performed by the Commission for performing the Public opening of the Bids composed of: Mr. Jane Jakimovski, President, representative of the Agency for Electronic Communications and the members: Mrs. Radka Sekutkovska, Agency for Electronic Communications, Mrs. Ana Dojcinovska, Commission for Protection of Competition, Mrs. Angela Ilioska, Ministry of Transport and Communications and Mr. Arben Saiti, Broadcasting Council.
In the presence of the representatives of the bidders and media the President of the Commission for performing the public tender for DVB-T has performed the public opening of the bids and together with the members of the Commission it was found that the only one Bid has been submitted by the interested company Telekom Slovenia dd. In addition it was found that the submitted Bid has contained all required documentation.

Pursuant to the Law, rules and criteria given in the Public tender, the Commission for performing the public tender shall within five days (09.02.2009) submit a report to the Commission of the Agency for Electronic Communications with a proposal for selection of the most favourable bidder.

On the basis of the submitted proposal, the Commission of the Agency shall be obliged to make a decision on selection of the most favourable bidder until 16.02.2009. The most favourable bidder shall be obliged to pay the offered one-time fee. Following its payment the Authorisation for radio frequency utilisation for 3 multiplexes for provision of radiocommunication service – transmission of digital television services via public communication network (DVB-T) shall be granted on 30.03.2009.