Polish Navy Submarine Tender

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8 Foreign, Polish Bidders Apply For Submarine Contest

WARSAW — Eight offers have been submitted for the technical dialogue to supply three submarines to the Polish Navy. The defense companies include foreign and Polish entities, according to a statement obtained from the Ministry of Defense by local news site Defence24.pl.

The bidders include France’s DCNS and Thales, Spanish shipbuilder Navantia, Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, a consortium of Sweden’s state-run defense procurement agency Försvarets Materielverk and Kockums shipyard, Poland’s defense company Kenbit, Sweden’s Saab, and Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.

In addition, the ministry’s Armament Inspectorate reserves “the right to invite other entities which did not reply to the call to participate in the [dialogue],” the statement said.

Local media have reported that the submarine procurement is estimated to be worth at least 7.5 billion zloty (US $2.44 billion).

The ministry is aiming to acquire two new submarines by 2022, and a further one by 2030 as part of its Navy modernization program. The Polish Navy has one Kilo-class submarine and four Kobben-class submarines in its fleet. The latter four were acquired from Norway and are expected to be withdrawn from service by 2015. ■

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[Penguin]

Interesting...

Particularly since ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems of Germany (TKMS) is a group and that group consists of:

• Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel, Germany
• Blohm + Voss in Hamburg, Germany (Blohm + Voss Shipyards, Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH und Blohm + Voss Industries 20%, Blohm + Voss Naval 50%)
• Kockums in Malmö, Sweden
• Hellenic Shipyards Co. in Skaramangas, Greece (25%)

I.e. you have HDW competing against Kockums, and both are part of the same group.

Saab doesn't do submarines... neither does Kongsberg... or Thales

The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets materielverk, FMV) is a Swedishgovernment agency that reports to the Ministry of Defence. The agency is responsible for the supply of materiel to the Swedish defence organisation. It is located in Stockholm. I doubt they are a commercial bidder.

So really then it is HDW (backed by TKMS higher up) versus DCNS, with Kockum trying to remain in the game by leveraging its fellow Swedish companies. IIRC Spain's submarines are result of a (failed) joint venture with France ?