[Sweden]: Auction of Surplus Aerial Equipment

[Connor]

Government of Sweden
Löfven Administration​

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As part of a recent modernisation of the Swedish Royal Air Force, the decision has been made to publicly auction air-to-air refuelling aircraft no longer within the vision of the Swedish Armed Forces. The auction will be governed by the Swedish Business Administration which sits within the Department of Defence and will run for seven days after the date of the first bid whilst reserving the right to conclude bidding at the achievement of a satisfactory value; bidding will start at the price of $70,000,000 per unit (beginning at below production cost).

Lockheed Martin KC-130J [2 available]​

The aircraft has been stripped of any Swedish Royal Air Force insignia and will be delivered at factory standard.
Any placed bids are legally binding to the completion of a sale and cannot be withdrawn once submitted.
Sale of any equipment by the Swedish Business Administration is subject to global defence sales restrictions in place by the Department of Defence.

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[Drivindeath]

The Mexican Government would put in a private bid for both aircraft at $70,000,000 each, for a total of $140,000,000.

Connor

 

[Bruno]

The Portuguese government would place a bid at 80,000,000 $ for each. Without knowledge about the Mexican bid.

Connor

 

[Connor]

All bids have been made publicly available.

 

[Danny]

The Austrian Government would put a bid of $90,000,000 for each.

 

[Drivindeath]

The Mexican Government would place a bid of $100,000,000 per aircraft.

 

[Connor]

A final memorandum is posted by the Swedish Business Administration notifying bidders that the auction will terminate tomorrow. - no further bids will be accepted past 2359hrs tomorrow night. The highest bid will win in line with conditions of sale.

Danny Bruno Drivindeath

 

[Danny]

The Austrians would place another bid of $110,000,000 for each

 

[Connor]

Less than twelve hours remain in the bidding process.

 

[Connor]

Following the publicly announced bidding process the threshold has since passed and all bidding now terminated whilst the Swedish Defence Business Administration finalise sale. The relevant department within the Austrian government are notified of their success and requested to send a total of $220,000,000.00. Aircraft have been stripped of any livery or identifying markings and will be delivered at factory standard. A full service is completed to ensure the aircraft and all associated working parts are in operational order.

Delivery will take upon receipt of financial transfer.

Danny

 

[Danny]

The Swedes were made aware that then transfer has been complete. Sending them a private/encrypted link:

(https://modernnations.com/threads/transfer-austria-to-sweden.23478/)

Connor