South Korea said on Friday that at least one bid came in under budget for its 8.3 trillion Korean won ($7.42 billion) purchase of 60 next generation fighter jets, the country’s biggest-ever defense import program.
A spokesman at the government’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said at a briefing on Friday that a comprehensive evaluation would start and that a winner was expected to be chosen in mid-September.
He declined to give the number or name of the companies that had submitted the required price.
DAPA resumed the bidding this week after suspending the process in July. Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35, Boeing Co’s F-15 and EADS’s Eurofighter Typhoon are in the race.
August 16, 2013 at 2:44 pm
WOULD NOT SAY THE SOUTH SHOULD NOT DEFEND ITS INTEGRITY, BUT THEY SHOULD RATHER JAW JAW THAN WAR THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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