WARSAW, Poland — The Czech Ministry of Defence has obtained three presents in its tender to accumulate 210 infantry combating automobiles (IFVs) for the nation’s land forces.
“All three producers and potential suppliers … submitted their bids to the Ministry of Defence by the deadline” on Sept. 1, the ministry stated in an announcement. “The completeness of the presents and their contents will now be assessed intimately by a fee consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the Czech Military.”
The confirmed bidders embrace the UK’s BAE Programs with the Swedish-made CV90, Europe-based Common Dynamics European Land Programs with its Ascod, and Germany’s Rheinmetall with the Lynx, in accordance with the assertion.
A fourth potential provider, a three way partnership between Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall which makes the Puma, pulled out of the competition in 2019, and, consequently, didn’t submit a suggestion yesterday.
In what may develop into the biggest protection contract within the Czech Republic’s historical past, Prague goals to spend about CZK 52 billion (US$2.4 billion) on new IFVs which can exchange the navy’s outdated BVP-2 automobiles.
As one of many tender’s necessities, potential suppliers should make sure that the Czech protection business is concerned in at the very least 40 % of the IFV contract. This has spurred a partnership between BAE Programs and Czech state-owned protection firm VOP CZ, whereas each GDELS and Rheinmetall established cooperation with native, privately-owned protection enterprise Czechoslovak Group, amongst others.
Czech Protection Ministry officers have stated the contract won’t be awarded earlier than the nation’s parliamentary election that’s scheduled for Oct. 8-9.
Jaroslaw Adamowski is the Poland correspondent for Protection Information.