MAIN HEADLINES FROM THIS ISSUE:

• Poland’s largest arms procurements will not be based on fully competitive tenders: “We will rely on Article 346”

  The Deputy Defence Minister said that Poland’s largest arms procurements, the missile defence program, the acquisition of military helicopters, and the requirement for unmanned aircraft, will not be based on fully competitive tenders because they would not allow the government to impose requirements such as “Polonisation.”

• Spanish IP policy: “I am not allowed to explain anything”

  Spain’s industrial participation policy remains a mystery even to personnel at the MoD. Nobody seems to know what the policy is or what effect the recently announced organisational restructuring within the MoD will have on existing industrial participation contracts.

• Feisty MP tells Seriti Commission “all offset deals are crooked”

  Judge Willie Seriti has begun phase two of the commission’s public hearings by calling Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille to testify about the allegations she presented to parliament in 1999 when she was an MP.  “You cannot thumb-suck something because you want to sell this deal to the country…”

• McKinsey raises the bar on offsets but should consider a different kind of bar

  Although they are not usually reported in annual filings, offset contracts are increasingly becoming a C-suite agenda item, says McKinsey & Company in an insight report on the industry.  The report is replete with banalities…..

• Kenyan law imposes 30 percent partnership quota for construction projects

  The regulations restrict the categories of work open to foreign contractors and also stipulate that foreign contractors must either enter into joint ventures with local contractors or locally subcontract a percentage of the work.