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UNITED KINGDOM
11 Aug 17. Combat Systems and Marine Systems Engineering
B2B Quote Ref no: B2B542592
Location: South West
Register Interest Deadline: Friday, September 15, 2017
Submit Documents Deadline: Friday, September 15, 2017
Principal Engineers required for Combat Systems, Marine System Engineering, Naval Architecture and High Speed Craft/Small Boat development. (Source: B2B.com)
EUROPE
16 Aug 17. Netherlands-Utrecht: Military electronic systems – 2017/S 155-322917.
Prior information notice for contracts in the field of defence and security Supplies.
Directive 2009/81/EC
Section I: Contracting authority/entity
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Ministerie van Defensie, Defensie Materieel Organisatie, Inkoop IT
431575409
Herculeslaan 1
For the attention of: Marianne de Vries
3584 AB Utrecht
Netherlands
Telephone: +31 302184484
E-mail:
Fax: +31 302184102
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: https://www.defensie.nl/organisatie/dmo
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Section II: Object of the contract
II.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
35700000 – FB01 – FB13
Description
Military electronic systems .
II.6)Scheduled date for start of award procedures and duration of the contract
Scheduled date for start of award procedures: 14.8.2017
(Source: Europa TED)
REST OF THE WORLD
17 Aug 17. India mine-sweeper program hits another roadblock. Goa Shipyard Limited’s quest to build 12 high-tech mine countermeasure vessels for $5bn, which is already delayed, has hit a roadblock over the selection of propulsion engines. According to a source in India’s Ministry of Defence, the Navy supports a multi-vendor tender process for the engine selection, but Goa Shipyard, citing reservations from Kangnam Corporation of South Korea, prefers a single-vendor nomination of German MTU engines.
Goa Shipyard of India, which is state-owned, was nominated by the MoD to make 12 MCMVs for the Indian Navy. Kangnam was selected to provide the technology needed to build the vessels because India does not possess the required technology. The Kangam-built MCMVs for the South Korean Navy are fitted with German MTU engines, and the company is offering the same to India. However, the Indian Navy is skeptical about the suitability of German MTU engines for Indian MCMVs because of the differences in geographical location and areas of operation.
India’s coastline is about 7,500 kilometers ― larger than that of South Korea.
“The magnetic signature of engines are key parameters for selection of an engine for MCMV, whose primary function is to detect and kill mines at sea. German MTU engines are not inherently nonmagnetic as they are not designed specifically for MCMV operations,” a senior Indian government official said.
“Their magnetism is suppressed using external magnet and other specialized, external systems, and these systems are required to be continuously returned to keep magnetic signature of ship within limits as ship sails from one port to another,” the official continued.
The retuning, the official added, is not practical in a warlike situation “where assets are required to be deployed at different ports of India at a very short nn Indian Navy official said of the matter: “Even U.S. Navy, whose operational specifications are similar to that of Indian Navy as far the wide theater of mine-hunting operations is concerned, does not use magnetically compensated MTU engines in their mine-hunting ships but use inherently nonmagnetized engines available in the market.”
There’s concern that selecting an engine incompatible with the mission would jeopardize the MCMV’s main purpose.
“Engine whose magnetic signatures are required to be suppressed