All guns blazing Bumar sets sights on new arms tender

Despite losing a major tender for the supply of weaponry to the new Iraqi army, Bumar, a domestic arms producer, is already preparing its bid for a tender for the supply of heavy ordinance over the next two months. After famously protesting the Iraqi amy supply tender won by Nour, it lost out again when the tender was held for a second time, this time to ANHAM, which itself was borne of several companies that had comprised the earlier Nour consortium. Roman Baczyński, Bumar's president, revealed that the company had received higher grades in terms of the quality of the weaponry offered, but missed out on the deal as it was not able to keep the delivery deadlines stipulated. "Polish companies can still make some money in this tender. One of the foreign companies [involved in the ANHAM consortium] offered Polish equipment," said a defense sector representative. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 6) M.M.