SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will invite four European companies to bid in a 1.46 billion levs (£669.28 million) tender to supply 150 armoured vehicles for its land forces over 12 years, the defence ministry said on Friday.
The ministry will invite Germany's Artec, a joint venture of Rheinmetall (DE:RHMG) and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, France's Nexter, Finland's Patria and Swiss General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) Land System- Mowag to send offers.
The Balkan country plans to pick a winner by Dec. 20.