New owner to be announced in two weeks?

Following the announcement by Blackpool automotive receivers PKF Ltd last week that the company was to be put up for sale complete with rights to the TVR trademark, there are press reports that the winning bidder will be announced on 23 February.
The TVRCC understands that there are at least six bidders with the necessary financial capital to be considered serious contenders.

Steve Cropley reporting for Autocar, writes:

'The administrator of Blackpool Automotive, the company created last year by Smolenski to contain TVR's Blackpool assets, will announce the successful new owner on February 23, from a field of around half a dozen serious bidders, all of whom were required to provide proof of £2 million funding to be considered. It is possible, though observers say increasingly unlikely, that Smolenski will bid again for the company. 

'Another prominent bidder is the Rochdale millionaire and engine designer Al Melling, already in the news after recently showing a full-size concept model of his own-brand super-performance sports car, the £185,000 Melling Hellcat, powered by a 1200 bhp, quad-turbo V10 engine of 6.3 litres. Melling designed TVR V8 and in-line six-cylinder engines, and has already hot-housed plans to revive the company, which would continue to be based in Blackpool.
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'"I'd need the old workforce," he said, "and if we could extend the lease on the existing Bristol Avenue premises, we'd stay there. It would take between six and 12 months to get the place back in full production, but I'd never expect to make more than 10-15 cars a week, two-thirds of which would be sold in the US. We'd major on the Sagaris and we'd revive the Griffith, which would be powered in updated form by an AJP8 engine. That car should never have been dropped.