tender

If it is not resolved, the process will go out to tender and that could take six months.

The contract is subject to the execution of an agreement, with remaining terms established in a tender, with a period of up to 30 working days from the provisional award, Telefonica said.

The existing nine SLB clubs claimed the tender process was "illegal" and refused to join the new competition.

The series is billed as a tender, glittering story of "queer" club performer Gabriel and his partner Andy's journey to adoption.

“Her adulthood started a little bit early when she became my mom at the tender age of 17,” he wrote at the time.