The 1st Infantry Brigade will receive a modern air defence system in accordance with the Defence Forces Development Plan 2010, which was approved in 2004. The air defence system to be procured is capable of defending the infantry brigade against air attacks both in Estonia and when being deployed in NATO missions.
The magnitude of this contract exceeds all of Estonia’s military procurements to date at a cost total over one billion Estonian kroons.
For the first time the tenderers have been requested to make an offset, in that a successful tenderer shall buy Estonian products or invest in the Estonian economy according to predefined coefficients. Therefore, offset contracts have been simultaneously prepared by which both companies shall undertake to enter contracts with Estonian enterprises and scientific research centres in the same volume, i.e., over one billion Estonian kroons.
