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According to the report, Canada’s federal procurement watchdog has ordered the government to rewrite and relaunch a 100-million Canadian dollars ($70.9 million) night vision program after ruling that last-minute technical changes unfairly steered the contract toward a single US supplier.
The report also stated that the decision comes after a mid-November ruling from the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), which validated a complaint in the case filed by Quebec-based Cadex Inc. and supported by French optics firm Photonis.
The report also said that the tribunal found that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) did not provide a sufficiently transparent or intelligible justification for raising the required signal-to-noise ratio, essentially a measure of image clarity, on the equipment’s intensifier tubes.
In addition to the report, this shift would also place key parts under US export controls and give Washington the authority to decide when the components could be shipped to Canada. Photonis tubes are widely used across NATO, including in Germany, Belgium, the UK, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, and Poland, as well as in France and Australia. European tubes carry no export restrictions, unlike American-built versions.
Source: The Defense Post
The report also stated that the decision comes after a mid-November ruling from the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), which validated a complaint in the case filed by Quebec-based Cadex Inc. and supported by French optics firm Photonis.
The report also said that the tribunal found that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) did not provide a sufficiently transparent or intelligible justification for raising the required signal-to-noise ratio, essentially a measure of image clarity, on the equipment’s intensifier tubes.
In addition to the report, this shift would also place key parts under US export controls and give Washington the authority to decide when the components could be shipped to Canada. Photonis tubes are widely used across NATO, including in Germany, Belgium, the UK, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, and Poland, as well as in France and Australia. European tubes carry no export restrictions, unlike American-built versions.
Source: The Defense Post
