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expected to take six to eight weeks to pick the winning bidder.
ok see you again after 3 months dear
Arrrrggggggggg OObhai khuda kay liyaya kuch tau khareed lo yarr Qasam say rula diya pata nahin kub say main esay parh raha hoon ... bari strong nerves hain jinhon nay bid kiya hai ...
Bhai yeh tau Aikta Kapoor kay dramay say bhi lumbi ho gai hai ... ab without ending khatum na ho jaiyaya ... warna main pagal ho jaoon ga
all the responsible parties viz. France, Eurofighter Consortium and Goi knows what's the result! Tum logon ko pata nahin toh kuchbhi bak bak karoge kya ?
And it is not as if some 10-30 planes are being purchased like pakistan... this is a massive purchase with a potential 189 aircrafts... so it's is complex. GoI needs to clear things up before deciding which price quote is really lower !!
eg. Lets say Eurofighter quotes like $100mn per piece with weapons and rafale like $90mn per piece. If the latter one presses for
extra costs for mid life upgrades of some specific components or some future structural changes (minor) won't be covered then it would be insensible to think rafale quoted lower !
Now I am interpreting the above situation like a layman here and I am sure there are more complex issues. Both have marketed their product on some avionics and radar upgrades which are inexistent till now. Now if the entire set of upgrades( all future ) of those products are covered in the cost or how many upgrades will their quote actually cover ? Don't u think it's good to clear these issues before estimating which one is really low ?
Also, most members here acting like a bunch of school kids who desperately want to know what will happen in the next cartoon episode. I can only say that the reason for this anxiety is the sheer no of thread opened regarding it but we should realize that only the RFI was sent in 2004/05 which cannot be counted as the starting epoch for this process coz the manufacturers were given time to finalize their product. And from 2005-08 many manufacturers did made several changes in the proposed product they are offering. LOL. France changed their entire product when some upgraded version of mirage was summarily rejected.
We should consider the time line from the time when the manufacturers have actually frozen their product design. And after that (2008 ) within 6 months IAF started the evaluation process which was completed in two years. And again took couple of months to submit the report. Now even if it now takes 2 months for the closure, it will like
6 months of delay initially + 2 years of eval + 6 months for report + 3 months for closure. Now do the math and cry me a fcuking river.