Both offers for new Bulgarian armored vehicles are well over $870 million
Today, the Ministry of Defense opened the price offers of the selected participants in the mega-project for rearmament of the Land Forces with 150 NATO armored combat vehicles, learned BulgarianMilitary.com
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So it is very likely that the military will try to save the current tender procedure, fearing that they will not soon get a second such chance of nearly BGN 1.5 billion. For this purpose, however, they will probably have to persuade once again to cut the number. of machines [initially 238, which were later reduced to 200 and then to 150 to fit the costs into the budget] or some of the required options [such as the extremely expensive communication and information equipment].
However, revising the technical parameters compared to the RFP request will allow companies that have dropped out of the competition, such as France’s Nexter and Germany’s Artec GmbH, to attack the bidding results in the Supreme Administrative Court.