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involved to revise and re-submit their proposals, with a revised tender closing date. The commission's changes did not affect the supplies being offered by
Tideland so the company resubmitted their original tender in advance of the commission's revised deadline. However, one of the tender documents stated that the company would keep its tender open for 90 days, "i.e. until 28/07/02", which complied with a requirement specified by the Commission in its original invitation to tender. The 90 day requirement for the amended tender process entailed that tenders were now to be kept open until a later date, and so the Commission rejected Tideland's tender as non-compliant. Tideland successfully challenged the commission's actions in the
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had started to become practical systems for recharging batteries in remote locations. Hoffman
Electronics, a pioneer in solar power, had approached Automatic with the idea of placing panels on their buoys to reduce the number of battery replacements needed to keep a site operations. Automatic instead
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European Union was undertaking. Tideland submitted a tender via its UK subsidiary. The European Commission then changed the description of one of its requirements and returned the tender documents, unopened, to the companies who had submitted them. This was to enable the companies
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was in the process of introducing their own solar panels. Examining the market, they saw that
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Fresnel lens and a base assembly, where a flasher or lamp changer can be installed. The light produced is a 360° omnidirectional beam and colored signatures are achieved by colored inserts. It has a range of more than 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi).
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