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The Court of Appeal confirmed the action of the Western Baltic Shipyard on Wednesday and annulled the army’s decision of 19 November last year to recognize the consortium of the Finnish shipbuilding company Uudenkaupungin Työvene and the electrical equipment company for ships Telesilta ( belonging to the Harju Elekter Group) as the winner of the contest.
The court overturned the Vilnius Regional Court ruling of February 25; The latter rejected the shipyard’s claim.
“When evaluating the suppliers’ offers, the defendant (Lithuanian Armed Forces – BNS) did not correctly apply the requirements of the technical specification (…), did not verify the compliance of the winning supplier’s offer with his (… ) requirements, which is the basis for annulment in the order.
The court also annulled the interim protective measures imposed at the request of the Western Baltic Shipyard in early January, which means that the tender can be resumed.
West Baltic Shipyard asked the court to annul the decision of the Armed Forces to recognize the group of Finnish companies as the winner of the tender and to re-evaluate the tenders of the bidders.
Arnoldas Šileika, CEO of Western Shipyard Group, owner of the West Baltic Shipyard, previously said that the company had evidence that the offer from Finnish companies did not meet the terms of the tender and doubted that the Finnish ship would perform all of its functions. correctly. .
KAM had previously stated that BNS had not received any evidence to support these doubts.
In the fall of 2019, the Lithuanian Armed Forces announced that they had received seven tenders from Lithuanian and foreign shipbuilding companies. Approximately 39.6 million were then expected. sign a contract worth 1 million euros for the purchase of a new ship in 2019, then in 2020, and acquire the ship itself in 2022-2023.
According to the Ministry of National Defense, a new ship is needed because the ship “Šakiai” and its equipment used for these purposes are now obsolete and no longer allow efficient performance of tasks.
The new ship is expected to be able to put out ship fires, tow ships in distress, clean up the oil-polluted sea and help divers. In addition, it will comply with Lithuania’s national and international obligations at sea.
The preliminary purchase value of the ship is 39,446 million. EUR (excluding VAT) and the duration of the contract is 30 months.
