Bidding Guidelines

Segment	Date	Subject	Remark
Generation (Thermal & Hydro)	3rd June, 1997	Guidelines for inviting Tariff Based Bids	(IPP)
	19th January, 2005	Guidelines for Bidding Process u/s 63 ofthe Electricity Act, 2003 (amendments upto 21.7.2010)	Repealed
		Standard Bid Documents for Case-1 mechanism (RFQ, RFP, PPA)
		Standard Bid Documents for Case-2 mechanism ( RFQ, RFP, PPA)
	21st September, 2013	Guidelines for Procurement of Electricity from thermal Powerstations set up on DBFOT basis	DBFOT
		Model Documents (MRFQ, MRFP, MPSA)
	9th November, 2013	Guidelines for Procurement of Electricity fromthermal Powerstations set up on DBFOO basis	Repealed
		Model Documents (MRFQ, MRFP, MPSA)
	29th January, 2014	Guidelines for procurement of electricity for medium term from powerstations set up on Finance, Own and Operate (FOO) basis
		First Amendment to the Guidelines dated 20th August, 2015
	30th March, 2016	Guidelines for short-term (i.e. for a period of more than one day to one year) Procurement of Power by Distribution Licensees through Tariff based bidding process	Short Term
		First Amendment to the Guidelines for short-term Procurement of Power dated 30th December, 2016
		Second Amendments to the Guidelines for short-term Procurement of Power dated 21st February, 2022
	17th January, 2017	Guidelines for Procurement of Electricity for Medium Term from Powerstations set up on FOO basis	Allowed coal linkage
		Model Documents (MRFQ, MRFP, MPSA)
	16th November, 2017	Advisory allowing amendment in the Revised bidding guidelines dated 16th January, 2017	Power to modify the guidelines
	30th January, 2019	Revised Guidelines for Procurement of Electricity for Medium Term from Powerstations set up on Finance, Own and Operate (FOO) basis
		Model Documents (MRFQ, MRFP, MPSA) issued on 29th January 2019
		First Amendment Guidelines for Procurement of Electricity for Medium Term dated 12th July, 2019
		Second Amendment Guidelines for Procurement of Electricity for Medium Term dated 3rd August, 2021
	6th March, 2019	Guidelines for long term Procurement of Electricity from thermal Powerstations set up on Design, Build, Finance, Own and Operate (DBFOO) basis and sourcing fuel as provided under Model Bidding Documents including allocation of coal under B (I), B(III) and B(IV) of SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala (Coal) Transparently in India) Policy.
		Model Bidding Documents (MRFQ, MRFP, MPSA) issued on 5th March, 2019
		Amendment to the Guidelines dated 11th July 2022
	20th October, 2022	Guidelines under Section 63 of the Electricity Act, 2003 for procurement of power on Finance, Own and Operate (FOO) basis under para B(v) ofthe SHAKTI Policy
Transmission	13th April, 2006	Guidelines for Encouraging Competition in Development of Transmission Projects	Repealed
		Amendment in Guidelines for Encouraging competition in Transmission dated 4th July, 2007
	17th April, 2006	Tariff based Competitive-bidding Guidelines for Transmission Service	Repealed
		Amendment in Tariff based Competitive-bidding Guidelines dated 4th July, 2007
		Standard Bidding Documents (RFQ, RFP and TSA)
		Amendment tostandard Bidding Documents (29th June 2008)
		Amendment tostandard Bidding Documents (7th March 2011)
	10th August, 2021	Guidelines for Encouraging Competition in Development of Transmission Projects
		Amendment to the Guidelines dated 4th July, 2023
	10th August, 2021	Tariff based Competitive-bidding Guidelines for Transmission Service
Renewable Generation	3rd August, 2017	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Power from Grid Connected Solar PV Power Projects	Solar PV
	22nd July, 2020	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Round-The Clock Power from Grid Connected Renewable Energy Power Projects, complemented with Power from any other source or storage	RTC
		First Amendment to the Guidelines dated 3rd November, 2020
		Second Amendment to the Guidelines dated 5th February, 2021
		Third Amendment to the Guidelines dated 03rd February, 2022
		Fourth Amendment to the Guidelines dated 26th August, 2022
	26th August, 2022	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Power from Grid Connected RE Power Projects for utilisation under scheme for flexibility in Generation and Scheduling of thermal/ Hydro Powerstations through bundling with Renewable Energy andstorage power	RE + Thermal +Hydro
	9th June, 2023	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Firm and Dispatchable Power from Grid Connected Renewable Energy Power Projects with Energy storage Systems	RE + Storage
	26th July, 2023	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement Power from Grid Connected Wind Power Projects	Wind
	28th July, 2023	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Power from Grid Connected Solar PV Power Projects.	Solar PV
	21st August, 2023	Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Power from Grid Connected Wind Solar Hybrid Projects.	Hybrid (Wind + Solar)