Thyssenkrupp appealed towards a call by the Netherlands final month to award a contract value billions of euros to construct submarines to France’s Naval Group, the German firm mentioned.
Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), the German conglomerate’s defence division, filed the objection with the District Court in The Hague in late March, the corporate mentioned in an e-mailed assertion.
“This measure is a professional business procedure in such publicly tendered major projects and part of the competition – especially in light of the questions that remain unanswered regarding specific evaluation criteria,” TKMS mentioned.
It mentioned it might take time for the Dutch procurement authority and the Ministry of Defence to reply these questions that TKMS mentioned have been related to the general analysis of the award determination. It didn’t specify any of the factors.
The settlement to award the contract to Naval Group nonetheless needs to be authorised by Dutch parliament, the place a number of events voiced discontent over the selection of the French group.
Some lawmakers have urged the federal government to go for a consortium of Swedish defence firm Saab and Dutch shipbuilder Damen, which was the third bidding group for the contract, saying that might profit home trade extra.
(Reuters reporting by Christoph Steitz and Tom Kaeckenhoff; Editing by Miranda Murray and Barbara Lewis)
