SHAH ALAM: Back in June, last year, Malaysian Defence wrote about the tender for four armoured personnel carriers (APC) for the General Operations Force or Pasukan Gerakan Am of the police.
Among the specifications for the APC are:

An APC with a turbo-diesel engine with no less than 4,500cc; with a maximum power of 250hp at 2,600rpm; power to weight ratio of 25 tonne to the gross vehicle weight; maximum torque of 700nm at 1,600 – 2,600rpm and uses an engine using at minimum Euro 3 diesel engine. The specifications are mandatory according to the public portion of the tender.

Other specifications include all around protection from 7.62mm and 5.56mm ammunition; can carry eight passengers including the driver; monocoque chassis; equipped with five doors and equipped with strobe and flash LED lights. Like those above, these specifications are mandatory and non compliance will be rejected.

Checks on Eperolehan website yesterday showed that Global Komited Sdn Bhd – a subsidiary of the Weststar Group – was awarded the Letter of Award for the tender. Unfortunately, the LOA cost was not announced. It must be noted that the tender was supposed to be valid until March 22, this year, so it was likely that the LOA was awarded prior to the expiry date.

From another Malaysian Defence post we know that

seven bidders have qualified for the tender. Their bids ranged from the lowest RM10.720 million and RM11.644 million, the highest one. The other bids are RM11 million; RM11.067 million; RM11.160 million; RM11.200 million and RM11.287 million.

Based on the above bids, I am guessing that the bidders knew the ceiling price for the tender which is likely to be below RM12 million. I stand to be corrected of course.

I have no idea what vehicle was offered by Global Komited. The company had previously supplied the police with fifteen IAG JAWS armoured 4X4s. Four JAWS are currently in service with the GOF in Sabah while the others are with the UTK and VAT69. Perhaps, the vehicle offered for tender will be displayed at Weststar booth at DSA 2024 exhibition which starts on May 6.

It is unlikely the JAWS was offered for the tender as based on the specifications, it will be a much bigger vehicle like the Streit Typhoon – two in service with the UTK and IAG Guardians, in service with Malaysian unit in UNIFIL. Both vehicles are equipped with three doors each, and not five as noted in the specifications list. Guardians were supplied by Weststar as part of the barter trade for the Starstreak SHORAD system.

–Malaysian Defence

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