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b. Tender documents were issued on 24 Aug 90 to 5 companies:
Thornycroft, FBM Marine and 3 non UK firms (believed to be from Hong Kong,
Australia and Thailand). Tenders were submitted by the 2 British
companies, the tender return date was 23 Nov 90. The Marine Department
hope to have a firm recommendation to put to the Hong Kong Tender Board by
March 1991. Between November and March the Department anticipates talks
with most and perhaps all of the bidding companies. The competition is
expected to be intense and the UK firms will be hard pressed to match Far
Eastern prices. However, the British firms will be stressing the quality,
durability, and through life support of their products. The order is
worth about £16M to UK.
2.
In the longer term, like several other Government Organisations in the
Colony, the RHKP has a requirement for additional night vision equipment
particularly to cover the shortfall in this area caused by the withdrawal of
the Garrison's inventory of Spyglass imagers post 1997. The RHKMP also has a
requirement for imaging equipment for surveillance purposes, aboard the new
class of Patrol Craft, (mentioned above). GEC Sensors, Thorn EMI, Barr and
Stroud, RADAMEC and the US firm, Texas Instruments are competing for the
programmes and, with the exception of Barr and Stroud, all have imagers
currently in operation in the Colony.
3.
Aware of the increasing operation of night vision equipment the Hong Kong
Government has declared its intention to establish a Central Maintenance
Facility (CMF). Although this will reduce maintenance costs and the delays in
servicing equipment the facility is unlikely to need automatic test equipment
since Hong Kong's holding of imagers in the future (circa 60) would not make
such purchases cost effective. However, there are prospects for UK companies
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