Bulgaria will seek offers in $838 mln tender for armoured vehicles

Bulgaria will invite four European companies to bid on a 1.46 billion levs ($838 million) tender to supply 150 armored vehicles for its land forces over 12 years, the defense ministry said on Friday. The ministry will invite Germany's Artec, a joint venture of Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, France's Nexter, Finland's Patria and Swiss General Dynamics Land System- Mowag to send offers.

The Balkan country plans to pick a winner by Dec. 20. ($1 = 1.7423 leva)

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