Sec. 1.2103  Competitive bidding design options.

    (a) The Commission will select the competitive bidding design(s) to 
be used in auctioning particular licenses or classes of licenses on a 
service-specific basis. The choice of competitive bidding design will 
generally be made pursuant to the criteria set forth in PP Docket No. 
93-253, FCC 94-61, adopted March 8, 1994, available for purchase from 
the International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M St. NW., suite 
140, Washington, DC 20037, telephone (202) 857-3800, but the Commission 
may design and test alternative methodologies. The Commission will 
choose from one or more of the following types of auction designs for 
services or classes of services subject to competitive bidding:
    (1) Simultaneous multiple round auctions (using remote or on-site 
electronic bidding);
    (2) Sequential multiple round auctions (using either oral ascending 
or remote and/or on-site electronic bidding); and/or
    (3) Sequential or simultaneous single round auctions (using either 
sealed paper or remote and/or on-site electronic bidding).
    (b) The Commission may use combinatorial bidding, which would allow 
bidders to submit all or nothing bids on combinations of licenses or 
authorizations, in addition to bids on individual licenses or 
authorizations. The Commission may require that to be declared the high 
bid, a combinatorial

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bid must exceed the sum of the individual bids by a specified amount. 
Combinatorial bidding may be used with any type of auction. The 
Commission may also allow bidders to submit contingent bids on 
individual and/or combinations of licenses.
    (c) The Commission may use single combined auctions, which combine 
bidding for two or more substitutable licenses and award licenses to the 
highest bidders until the available licenses are exhausted. This 
technique may be used in conjunction with any type of auction.
[ 59 FR 44293 , Aug. 26, 1994, as amended at  62 FR 13542 , Mar. 21, 1997]