What’s Canada Buying? January 11, 2013
- “The Colombian Ministry of National Defence has awarded a USD$65.3 million contract to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada for 24 Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs) for the Colombian Army. General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company’s parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). The contract was signed through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Agency of the Government of Canada. This contract was a priority acquisition by the Colombian Ministry of National Defence and provides a new capability for the Army. Vehicles provided under this contract will be the LAV III version with double-V hull technology and add-on armour that provides crew members with the latest in protection against mine blasts, IEDs and other threats. All vehicles will be equipped with a Rafael Remote Controlled Weapon Station. Deliveries will be completed by May 2014 ….”
- Mark Collins on “Government Announces Plan to Buy New Helicopters for Canadian Coast Guard, Part 3“
- An update on something Canada can’t sell yet “Taxpayers have spent nearly $15 million over the last eight years maintaining the vacant Kapyong Barracks site while the federal government fights a land claim for the site by Treaty One First Nations. A few years ago, the Department of Defence reported the annual cost to maintain the site, including the 41 buildings, was $1.95 million. A Department of Defence spokeswoman recently told the Free Press that dropped to $1.5 million in 2011 when the six buildings that were still being used were emptied. Since the barracks were abandoned by the Princess Patricia Light Infantry Unit in 2004, taxpayers have spent $14.7 million on the empty barracks, including for utilities, operations and maintenance, property taxes, site security and site management. “Good grief,” said Manitoba NDP MP Pat Martin. “The government’s stubborn intransigence on this file is costing us a fortune.” A 1997 agreement with Treaty One First Nations gave them the right of first refusal when surplus federal land became available. However when Ottawa officially declared the land surplus in 2007, it planned to to sell the site to the Canada Lands Company for $8.6 million. CLC, a Crown corporation that redevelops surplus federal land, planned a mix of homes and businesses on the site. The seven Treaty One First Nations went to court to challenge the decision shortly after ….”
- “Canadians should be concerned that the country’s military and its government seem congenitally incapable of handling a major acquisition …. If the 1990s were the “decade of darkness” because of budget cuts, one shudders to think what the current military age will be dubbed.”
- Wanted: 80 x snowmobiles + 35 x cargo sleighs to rent for miltary exercise (Trillium Response) in Cochrane, Moosonee area
- “…. Objective: Add additional features to a tool for responding to cyber incidents, in order to meet the needs of the Department of National Defence (DND) R&D in this area ….”
- “…. The Department of National Defence has a requirement for the supply of four (4) Patient Simulators with an option to purchase twenty (20) additional quantities over the next five (5) years ….”
- Wanted: 90 x mountain bikes for CFB Borden
Written by milnewsca
11 January 13 at 12:15
Posted in What's Canada Buying?
