May 12 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's defence ministry said that it has signed contracts for the purchase of bulletproof vests and helmets from local company Mars Armor, worth a total of 1.52 million levs ($843,000/777,000 euro).
The bulletproof vests contract is worth 1.32 million levs, while the helmets will be purchased for 200,000 levs, the defence ministry said in a notice to the public procurement agency, published on Monday.
The tenders for the two contracts attracted four offers each.
Mars Armor completed a 25 million levs investment in 2017, expanding its production capacity to 120,000 armour vests, 250,000 plates and 100,000 helmets per year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)