Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Second Revised Volume No. 1-D
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Effective Date: 12/28/1999, Docket: GT00- 19-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 43B Original Sheet No. 43B : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR SERVICES - continued
(A) Identify the highest individual Maximum
Bid Volume for a Qualified Bid which, alone or in combination with
other Qualified Bid(s), can create the Winning Bid Value. Discard
all Qualified Bid combinations which do not contain a Qualified Bid
with such highest Maximum Bid Volume. Identify the highest volume
which can be allocated to such Qualified Bid with such highest
Maximum Bid Volume in the remaining combinations and still have the
Winning Bid Value. Discard all combinations of Qualified Bid(s)
which do not contain the highest such volume allocation. If this
does not break the tie, then repeat the above procedure looking to
the next highest Maximum Bid Volume, with the highest volume
allocated thereto, within each remaining combination of Qualified
Bid(s) with a Winning Bid Value; and so forth, until the tie is
broken or all Qualified Bids in the remaining combinations are
reviewed.
(B) If the above does not break the tie,
identify again the Qualified Bid within each remaining combination
with the highest Maximum Bid Volume and the highest volume allocated
to such Qualified Bid, and identify which such Qualified Bid has the
lowest Minimum Bid Volume. Discard all combinations which do not
contain such Qualified Bid. If this does not break the tie, repeat
the above procedure looking to the next highest Maximum Bid Volume,
with the lowest Minimum Bid Volume, within each remaining combination
of Qualified Bid(s) with the Winning Bid Value; and so forth, until
the tie is broken or all Qualified Bid(s) in the remaining
combination are reviewed.
(C) If the above does not break the tie,
identify again the Qualified Bid within each remaining combination
with the highest Maximum Bid Volume. The combination containing such
Qualified Bid that Transporter's DART system shows was submitted and
received earliest by the DART system (or if DART is not available and
the Qualified Bid was submitted in writing, the time Transporter
received the Qualified Bid) shall be the winning combination. The
next highest Maximum Bid Volume within each remaining combination
shall be used as necessary pursuant to the above first come, first
served rule to break any remaining ties; and so forth as necessary to
break any remaining ties.
(4) In no event shall the combination of winning
Qualified Bid(s) result in a total Bid Value less than the highest
possible total Bid Value achievable from a combination of Qualified
Bid(s) consistent with the Qualified Bids, the Capacity Release
Request and this Section 23.