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Defense reactivate purchase of rifles for US $ 31 million was thwarted three times
Ministry does not rule out direct purchase. Video shows that in last tender rifle that was emerging as winner ended cracked
Since 2009 the Ministry of Defense plans to invest US $ 31.5 million in 8,110 assault rifles for its troops in the Vraem , but buying fails to materialize. There are three bids frustrated so far in a process tainted by allegations of irregularities between them bidders.
Defense industry sources suggest that in the rush to have the rifles no direct procurement is discarded. However, on the website of Supervisor State Procurement Agency ( OSCE ) purchase already in the annual plan of the Army, in the form of international bidding, and is cited as a document of approval on 516-2013 / EP / COLOGE / Divoplog / Abasto, dated August 15.
Ministry spokesmen told not to give details of what the mode of purchase because it is under military secret, "but we have already taken up the process and controlling it monitor". In that institution confirmed the release.
THE PURCHASE FRUSTRATED
The third and final attempt to purchase was for international tender, in June 2012 , as stated in the vice-ministerial resolution 065, but until now the reasons for his termination were not known. There were five participating companies: MKE , could not guarantee a lifetime of 20,000 shots, LWRC , failed in the battle on beach sand; and Hekcler & Koch and Lewis Machine Tools failed the test in mud.
The Belgian FN Herstal, with his rifle SCAR Calibre 7.62, was the only one who reached the finals, but the August 6, the last field test failed. What happened that day is recorded on a video of the Committee for Implementation of Protocol Testing Army, which has been obtained by this newspaper.
The protocol, designed by the Department of the Army War Material, provides the ultimate safety test requirement firing, which involves throwing the rifle seven times from a height of 2.5 meters and then make 10 shots.
The video shows the launch and how the gun was with the butt cracks and broken at the sight of Belgian representatives. "Seeing what the protocol says [...] no visible cracks or breaks are allowed, and here we have determined in view these three things [damage]," he says in the video head Supply, Moisés Carbajal.
"Just as we do the shooting? If you no longer have value, "said Carlos Dargent, former mayor and spokesman for FN Herstal.
But Brigadier General José Oliva, president of the evaluation committee, was clear: "As chairman of the committee, and pursuant to written in the protocol, we can not continue testing [...] For us here have already completed the process "he says in the recording.
We are looking for Carlos Dargent and gave another version. "It was just a crack. We test for this was to see if the gun is fired to fall and that did not happen. The committee suspended the trial against our will and we have complained to the ministry [...] Of course we will participate. The reviews are promoted by bidders lagged.
On 22 July this year the biggest EP Cristhian Pun Yueng, member of the Development Committee for the Study of Investment, issued 001-1 / 2013 report detailing the failures views rifles FN Herstal and LWRC in the test 2012. Pun sent the document to his superior, General Juan Bazalar EP, copied to other units linked to purchases in the Army. In response was banned for five days of arrest and the Province will just open a process for sharing documents without authorization.
The Navy also warned in the report that the rifle 3195-2009 SCAR is not resistant plastic and has a mobile armed lever receding with every shot "exposing the shooter to injury in the fingers". Two other Army reports indicate that year the same problems.
These documents prompted the then Minister Rafael Rey to suspend the first tender, 2010.
The following year the process was paralyzed by the then Minister Daniel Mora for not being profitable.
BIDDERS
In 2012 the company Robinson Armament, Defense and Sig Sauer Colt alleged bias in the tender documentation and forward the date of the test protocol.
Jorge Egocheaga, Robinson Armament, said the falls which are subjected rifle own experience in the field.
US He used the rifle SCAR 7.62 and Chile had just purchased.
Defensa reactivará compra de fusiles por US$31 millones que se frustró tres veces | Gobierno | Política | El Comercio Peru
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OMFG They still havent fixed the barrel life excpectancy issue. Like for real, how many years does this issue exist and what have they done to fix it? Nothing... Welp there goes my faith in MKEK once more.
Ministry does not rule out direct purchase. Video shows that in last tender rifle that was emerging as winner ended cracked
Since 2009 the Ministry of Defense plans to invest US $ 31.5 million in 8,110 assault rifles for its troops in the Vraem , but buying fails to materialize. There are three bids frustrated so far in a process tainted by allegations of irregularities between them bidders.
Defense industry sources suggest that in the rush to have the rifles no direct procurement is discarded. However, on the website of Supervisor State Procurement Agency ( OSCE ) purchase already in the annual plan of the Army, in the form of international bidding, and is cited as a document of approval on 516-2013 / EP / COLOGE / Divoplog / Abasto, dated August 15.
Ministry spokesmen told not to give details of what the mode of purchase because it is under military secret, "but we have already taken up the process and controlling it monitor". In that institution confirmed the release.
THE PURCHASE FRUSTRATED
The third and final attempt to purchase was for international tender, in June 2012 , as stated in the vice-ministerial resolution 065, but until now the reasons for his termination were not known. There were five participating companies: MKE , could not guarantee a lifetime of 20,000 shots, LWRC , failed in the battle on beach sand; and Hekcler & Koch and Lewis Machine Tools failed the test in mud.
The Belgian FN Herstal, with his rifle SCAR Calibre 7.62, was the only one who reached the finals, but the August 6, the last field test failed. What happened that day is recorded on a video of the Committee for Implementation of Protocol Testing Army, which has been obtained by this newspaper.
The protocol, designed by the Department of the Army War Material, provides the ultimate safety test requirement firing, which involves throwing the rifle seven times from a height of 2.5 meters and then make 10 shots.
The video shows the launch and how the gun was with the butt cracks and broken at the sight of Belgian representatives. "Seeing what the protocol says [...] no visible cracks or breaks are allowed, and here we have determined in view these three things [damage]," he says in the video head Supply, Moisés Carbajal.
"Just as we do the shooting? If you no longer have value, "said Carlos Dargent, former mayor and spokesman for FN Herstal.
But Brigadier General José Oliva, president of the evaluation committee, was clear: "As chairman of the committee, and pursuant to written in the protocol, we can not continue testing [...] For us here have already completed the process "he says in the recording.
We are looking for Carlos Dargent and gave another version. "It was just a crack. We test for this was to see if the gun is fired to fall and that did not happen. The committee suspended the trial against our will and we have complained to the ministry [...] Of course we will participate. The reviews are promoted by bidders lagged.
On 22 July this year the biggest EP Cristhian Pun Yueng, member of the Development Committee for the Study of Investment, issued 001-1 / 2013 report detailing the failures views rifles FN Herstal and LWRC in the test 2012. Pun sent the document to his superior, General Juan Bazalar EP, copied to other units linked to purchases in the Army. In response was banned for five days of arrest and the Province will just open a process for sharing documents without authorization.
The Navy also warned in the report that the rifle 3195-2009 SCAR is not resistant plastic and has a mobile armed lever receding with every shot "exposing the shooter to injury in the fingers". Two other Army reports indicate that year the same problems.
These documents prompted the then Minister Rafael Rey to suspend the first tender, 2010.
The following year the process was paralyzed by the then Minister Daniel Mora for not being profitable.
BIDDERS
In 2012 the company Robinson Armament, Defense and Sig Sauer Colt alleged bias in the tender documentation and forward the date of the test protocol.
Jorge Egocheaga, Robinson Armament, said the falls which are subjected rifle own experience in the field.
US He used the rifle SCAR 7.62 and Chile had just purchased.
Defensa reactivará compra de fusiles por US$31 millones que se frustró tres veces | Gobierno | Política | El Comercio Peru
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OMFG They still havent fixed the barrel life excpectancy issue. Like for real, how many years does this issue exist and what have they done to fix it? Nothing... Welp there goes my faith in MKEK once more.
