---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 1.2103"
title: "47"
number: "1.2103"
heading: "Competitive bidding design options."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/1.2103"
---

# §1.2103. Competitive bidding design options.

- (a) **Public notice of competitive bidding design options.** Prior to any competitive bidding for initial licenses, public notice shall be provided of the detailed procedures that may be used to implement auction design options.
- (b) **Competitive bidding design options.** The public notice detailing competitive bidding procedures may establish procedures for collecting bids, assigning winning bids, and determining payments, including without limitation:
  - (1) **Procedures for collecting bids.**
    - (i) **Procedures for collecting bids in a single round or in multiple rounds.**
    - (ii) Procedures allowing for bids for specific items, bids for generic items in one or more categories of items, or bids for one or more aggregations of items.
    - (iii) Procedures allowing for bids that specify a price, indicate demand at a specified price, or provide other information as specified by competitive bidding policies, rules, and procedures.
    - (iv) Procedures allowing for bids that are contingent on specified conditions, such as other bids being accepted or for packages of licenses being awarded.
    - (v) **Procedures to collect bids in one or more stages, including procedures for transitions between stages.**
    - (vi) Procedures for whether, when, and how bids may be modified during the auction.
  - (2) **Procedures for assigning winning bids.**
    - (i) Procedures that take into account one or more factors in addition to the submitted bid amount, including but not limited to the amount of bids submitted in separate competitive bidding.
    - (ii) **Procedures to assign specific items to bidders following bidding for quantities of generic items.**
    - (iii) **Procedures to incorporate public interest considerations into the process for assigning winning bids.**
  - (3) **Procedures for determining payments.** Procedures to determine the amount of any payments made to or by winning bidders consistent with other auction design choices.

## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 48528, Aug. 15, 2014]

### Source

Source: 59 FR 44293, Aug. 26, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; 47 U.S.C. 1754, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[79 FR 48528, Aug. 15, 2014]