May 21 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian medical equipment company Vega Medical has signed two medical devices supply contracts worth 8.6 million levs ($4.8 million/4.4 million euro) in total with Sofia-based hospital St. Ivan Rilski, the hospital said on Thursday.
Both contracts were inked on May 15, according to public procurement agency data.
The public procurement procedure for awarding the higher-priced deal, worth some 5.0 million levs, attracted 11 offers, while the procedure for the other contract attracted offers from nine candidates.
Sofia-headquartered 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.
The company's core business is the delivery of medical equipment and consumables. Outside Bulgaria, Vega Medical is active in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to information available on its website.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)