إلا أن الاحتمال بعيد، في الظروف المتوخاة، أن تقدم عروضا غير جادّة، لأن المشاريع المعنية مشاريع كبيرة ولأن مقدم العرض يكون قد التزم بملايين الدولارات للاقتراح.
Mr. Wallace (United States of America) said that model provision 12, on bid securities, was relatively novel, and was intended to prevent frivolous bids. However, in the circumstances envisaged, it was extremely unlikely that bids would be made frivolously, because the projects in question were very large and the bidder would often have committed millions of dollars to the proposal.