WARSAW, Poland — The Czech Ministry of Defence has acquired three provides in its tender to acquire 210 infantry battling vehicles (IFVs) for the country’s land forces.
“All a few brands and prospective suppliers … submitted their bids to the Ministry of Defence by the deadline” on Sept. 1, the ministry reported in a statement. “The completeness of the delivers and their contents will now be assessed in detail by a commission consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the Czech Army.”
The verified bidders consist of the UK’s BAE Techniques with the Swedish-made CV90, Europe-primarily based Common Dynamics European Land Methods with its Ascod, and Germany’s Rheinmetall with the Lynx, according to the assertion.
A fourth likely supplier, a joint enterprise in between Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall which can make the Puma, pulled out of the contest in 2019, and, as a result, did not post an supply yesterday.
In what could grow to be the largest protection agreement in the Czech Republic’s background, Prague aims to commit about CZK 52 billion (US$2.4 billion) on new IFVs which will replace the military’s out-of-date BVP-2 autos.
As one particular of the tender’s requirements, opportunity suppliers will have to assure that the Czech protection business is concerned in at minimum 40 percent of the IFV deal. This has spurred a partnership between BAE Systems and Czech condition-owned defense organization VOP CZ, though both of those GDELS and Rheinmetall founded cooperation with community, privately-owned protection organization Czechoslovak Team, amongst other people.
Czech Defense Ministry officers have mentioned the deal will not be awarded in advance of the country’s parliamentary election that is scheduled for Oct. 8-9.
Jaroslaw Adamowski is the Poland correspondent for Protection News.
