ROK-based LIG Nex1 was disqualified from Romania’s tender for new V/SHORAD systems due to “paperwork blunders” in filing a bidding initiation receipt.
Korea JoongAng Daily reported that the firm filed an appeal to the Romanian authorities, stating that there is unfair treatment in the tender.
Yonhap News Agency shared the appeal document stating that LIG Nex1 could bring only two representatives. At the same time, the competitors Israeli Rafael, German Diehl, and multi-national MBDA brought more than their Korean counterparts.
LIG Nex1 participated with the KP-SAM Chiron, a counterpart to the U.S.-made FIM-92 Stinger with a range of seven kilometres and a flight ceiling of four kilometres.
Rafael participates with Red Sky-2 MANPADS, MBDA with Mistral, and Diehl with IRIS-T SL air defence systems.
Previously, ROK’s KAI was involved in the inverse of this situation during Malaysia’s LCA tender, where FA-50 was picked. The Edge Malaysia reported that one of the bidders filed a complaint stating that the decision was rushed, without facility/plant visits to other bidders for a comprehensive evaluation.
