BUSINESS DAY TV: Eskom mulls submissions from 27 companies for nuclear build
Eskom’s chief nuclear officer David Nicholls discusses the next step after 27 companies responded to its request for information for its nuclear build programme
BUSINESS DAY TV: It’s probably akin to dipping a bloody arm into a piranha-infested stream as 27 companies have indicated their readiness to submit responses to Eskom’s request for information (RFI) on its nuclear programme. The RFI was issued on 20 December and yesterday was the initial deadline — and joining us in the studio now is David Nicholls Eskom’s Chief Nuclear Officer. David, so 27 companies have stated that they intend to provide a response to the request for information, put that number into perspective for us so we can get a sense of the level of competitive interest in SA’s nuclear build programme? DAVID NICHOLLS: First of all, I’ll say that since then we’ve has some more come in, we’ve got 36 at the moment. The other question is that among that number of companies there were those that are asking to provide information on very specific issues, some project management companies and that kind of thing, and not really providing elements of the information we’re looking f...
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