Yes, but why promote the obvious work to a 'stage'?
No doubt they may have started with a template but that would have been months ago. The lawyers would have negotiated the details of the draft and crafted the outline, their instructions would have been to prepare the papers ready to lodge, time being of the essence.
As stated in the more recent tweets, today, the 'stage' seems to have been cultivated to encourage the unsuccessful party to improve their bid.
If this is the rate of progress then we have no hope. Of course things are complicated however the whole purpose of the exclusivity agreement is that they can then deal with the substantial issues at hand.
Sorry I have no more posts left today to discuss this interesting point.
What do you mean by promote? Reuters simply reported on what was currently happening, there has been no promotion.