French EDF has its offer for a nuclear unit at Czechia’s Dukovany ready

French company EDF, one of three bidders for the construction of a new nuclear unit at Dukovany, has its final offer ready. It has therefore begun the process of submitting it according to the original deadline, which was set for today. Company representatives said this at a press conference in Prague today. The other bidders are North American company Westinghouse and South Korea’s KHNP. The original deadline for submitting bids was postponed from 2 October to 31 October. The new unit is expected to be completed by 2036.

The bidders submitted their initial offers for the unit last autumn. The partly state-owned ČEZ, which is in charge of the project, did not disclose details of the offers. In the spring, it held clarification meetings with the bidders to discuss some of the tender conditions and their initial offers. ČEZ subsequently invited them to submit final offers. According to Novinky.cz, Westinghouse requested that the deadline be moved from 2 October to a later date. Once it has received the final offers, ČEZ will evaluate them and submit its evaluation report to the government for approval.