Bidders for the second Fixed line license Friday submitted their bids. Out of the four consortiums interested in the license only three 3 submitted their bids. Communication Commission Of Kenya Director-General Mr. Sammy Kirui says the eventual winner of the bidding process shall be the one with the highest financial bid subject to scoring the minimal pass-mark in the technical/business proposal. To pre-qualify for the bidding process consortiums were required to submit evidence of a minimal annual turnover of more than 12 billion shillings, the capability to manage a network of 500,000 subscribers and more, in addition interested parties were required to submit a financial network history of their consortium members including past three years annual financial statements. 30 per cent of the equity also had to be locally owned. The only firms which managed to submit their bids today were Telenor Management Partner, Taifacom, and African Bell. After the submission of bids, and their opening, CCK will now evaluate the bids based on the experience of managing telecom networks and services, financial capacity, business strategy and technical strategy. CCK shall gazette the intention to award the licence to the winning bidder on 2nd july, while the Sno licence will be awarded on 3rd September.