January 7 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's health ministry said on Tuesday that it has awarded a 10.4 million levs ($5.9 million/5.3 million euro) contract for supply of medical equipment to local company Vega Medical.
The project benefits from EU funding under Operational Programme Regions in Growth 2014-2020, the ministry said in a notice.
The deal was signed on December 19.
Vega Medical submitted the sole offer in the tender for the contract.
Vega Medical is a wholly-owned unit of local Abraxas Capital, according to commercial register data. Abraxas Capital is fully owned by private individual Dimitar Ivanov.
Outside Bulgaria, Vega Medical is active in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)