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Dive into the highlights of the Long Term Competition discussions from May to present, including key decisions, webinars, and revisions of the Straw Man. Explore the details on Defender and Challenger criteria, trigger process, and possible outcomes.
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Long Term Competition - Recap Mike Norris and Rebecca Berdahl June 17, 2014
LT C Discussions – May 2014 to present • May OS Meeting – • decision to trigger LT C based upon the submission of a Renewal Request • Deferral requests will not be addressed in the Competition and Preemption project • BPA took the assignment to craft a revised straw man (BPs) to reflect the new trigger • Interest announcement to OS members via NAESB OS email exploder June 6th included the revised Straw Man (Renewal competition trigger) • Two webinars have been held: June 6th and June 13th
New Straw Man Introduced 06/07/14 • The new Straw Man includes the following sections: • General Principles • Competition Process Flow • Defender and Challenger Criteria • Competition Trigger • Process Flow Detail (TSP and TC actions)
June 9th Webinar: General Principle Section • The Defender only has to defend once against a single Challenger • The TSP shall identify a single Challenger using duration as primary criteria with queue time as secondary • The Challenger must reach a final state of CONFIRMED or else the capacity goes back to ATC inventory
June 13th Webinar – Questions • Conditional Curtailment Option treatment under the Renewal Competition Process • Should the Challenger need to be ‘granted in full’? • What type of offer should result from a competition? • Partial Service • Full Service • Other? • Should a Defender who does not ‘match’ lose capacity if the Challenger does not ACCEPT • Implementation Question -
June 13th Questions (cont’d) • Clarification needed: timing issues and terms used • 001-mn.1.3 • 001-mn.8.2.3 • 001-mn.6.1.3 • NITS Issues: • NITS service time interval is defined as ‘Request Interval’ (e.g., ‘duration’ is not used for term of service in NITS). • There isn’t a ‘Renewal Request’ in NITS
Revised Straw Man • Revision submitted to NAESB June 17th, 2014 to account for the two June Webinars • Assignment was to present BPs to the NAESB OS in June • Still draft • More meetings are needed • Draft Straw Man is presented for NAESB OS members’ review and discussion