PiS to cancel $3 bln tender for multi-purpose helicopters

Michał Jach, head of the parliamentary defense committee, told public radio broadcaster that a tender for multi-purpose helicopters, in which the French Eurocopter Caracal EC725 was initially selected, will be canceled and carried out once again. "The problem with the multipurpose helicopter tender was that the Ministry had repeatedly said that the armed forces will receive the best helicopter on the market, and later it turned out that the one, which won, was chosen because other competitors were excluded from the tender on a formal basis. So formal matters were decisive and not features of the equipment. It can not be that way," Jach said. In April, the Ministry of Defense announced that Poland will buy  70 French Eurocopter Caracal EC725 helicopters,  manufactured by Airbus. The value of the tender stood at $3 billion.