“France’s EdF, US company Westinghouse and KHNP of South Korea, that is the firms approached in connection with the construction of a new unit at nuclear power plant Dukovany, signed the acknowledgement letter, which means they agree with a security check,” energy group CEZ’s Tomas Pleskac said.
Russian company Rosatom and China’s CGN were not approached as the Czech government decided these companies would not take part in the Dukovany tender.
Elektrarna Dukovany II, part of CEZ, sent the letter to the three bidders at the end of June and launched the security check. By signing the letter, the firms gave consent to the assessment.
“We’ve submitted preliminary on-demand documentation to EdF, Westinghouse and KHNP, giving the potential bidders more time to prepare their offers,” Pleskac, board member and head of the new energy division at CEZ, tweeted.
All bidders will submit relevant security information to CEZ by the end of this November, that is after the October general election, and the cabinet will then decide which companies will take part in the tender, CEZ spokesman Ladislav Kriz said in June.
The goal of the security check is to assess all potential suppliers and get information necessary to ensure security interests, Kriz said.
This concerns mainly the ownership structure, supply chain, link to the state, problems in carrying out projects, issues in nuclear projects, technology transfer, and know-how, he said.
The new unit at Dukovany will apparently be fully financed by the state. The price will be set based on the submitted bids, Industry and Trade Minister Karel Havlicek said earlier. The cost of the project is estimated at Kc162-400bn.
Source: CTK
