STEP electronics (a subsidiary of Adelaide's Hills Holdings) was awarded a multi-million dollar contract to provide satellite comms systems to the Federal Government's DFATs embassies throughout the world for 4 years.
AdelaideNow reports that "(STEP) won the contract following a competitive tender process involving at least a dozen businesses...."
Full article here http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/sa-business-journal/hills-holdings-wins-multimillion-dollar-federal-government-satellite-contract-for-its-embassies/story-e6fredel-1226512198560
Wonder whether Newsat were invited to tender.
Didn't we have some sort of blue with the Fed's a few years ago that put us (AB) in their bad books?
At least this time, the Fed's have awarded a contract to an Oz company instead of a foreigner.
Can anyone expand on any background to the article & our current relationship with the Feds?
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