SHAH ALAM: In the previous article on the Caracal CAR816 assault rifles, I wrote that there were no plans to replace the M4A1 Carbine as the standard MAF assault rifle. It is simply too expensive, I was told. Despite this I have been told that there are plans in the […]
SHAH ALAM: The Finance Ministry has issued the Letter of Award of RM20,412,225.00 to Riqhas TNR Sdn Bhd for the supply and delivery of coloured smoke and tear grenades for the Royal Malaysian Police or PDRM. The publication of the LOA was on March 27. The tender for the grenades […]
SHAH ALAM: Mal-Tel Technology Sdn Bhd, a company based in Cheras, Selangor, has been awarded the LOA of RM4,501,096.00 to supply and deliver body-worn cameras (BWC) and the related accessories for the MMEA. The LOA result was published on the Finance Ministry tender page on March 6. As usual it […]
SHAH ALAM: The Procurement Division of the Home Ministry has issued two separate tenders for the supply and delivery of two-hundred and twenty-one double-cab and fifty single-cab four-wheel drive vehicles. The tender for the 221 vehicles was published on February 26 and closes on April 7. These vehicles would be […]
SHAH ALAM: Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin in his speech at Parliament today confirmed that the 28 helicopters involved in the 15-year leasing will all be from Leonardo. The helicopters are the AW109 Trekker; AW 139; AW139 VIP and the AW149. Unfortunately, he did not give a break-down of the […]
SHAH ALAM: The four IAG Guardian Extreme APC for the General Operations Force/Pasukan Gerakan Am (PGA) of the Royal Malaysian Police is now ready for delivery. A four-day pre-delivery inspection (PDI) was conducted in UAE. IGP TS Razarudin Husain was also involved in the PDI together with the service’s transport […]
SHAH ALAM: UTK is getting two armoured Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) for VVIP protection duties. This was revealed when the Procurement Division of the Home Ministry issued a twenty-one-day tender for the supply of the SUVs on Eperolehan. The tender was published on January 23 and closes on February 13. […]
SHAH ALAM: The Procurement division of the Home Ministry has issued two separate tenders for the procurement of machine guns for the Marine police and 9mm semi-automatic pistols for the Prisons Department. The tender for the eighty-five pintle mounted machine guns, complete with accessories was published on January 22 and […]
SHAH ALAM: Hot on the heels of the tender for thirteen sniper rifles for the FRU, the Procurement Division of the Home Ministry has issued a tender for five hundred tactical 9mm pistols for the UTK and VAT69. Both the UTK and VAT69 operate counter-terrorism teams. Out of the the […]
SHAH ALAM: Almost 14 months ago (December 7 2023), IGP TS Razarudin Husain announced that the Home Ministry has approved an allocation of some RM22 million for the procurement of vehicles, anti-riot dogs and firearms for the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU). Some of the items he mentioned – personnel protection […]
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