Foreign companies will not be permitted to participate in the tender for the construction of new docks at a nuclear submarine naval base in the United Kingdom.
Sea-news.az reports citing The Telegraph, that three new floating docks will be constructed at HM Naval Base Clyde in Scotland to service the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet.
As the project is considered significant from a national security perspective, the tender will be open exclusively to UK companies.
The new docks will provide technical maintenance for Britain’s current and future nuclear submarines. Inspections, repairs, and modernization work for the submarines are scheduled to be carried out at the facility.
According to information published by The Telegraph last week, UK defense contracts worth more than 30 billion pounds sterling have been awarded to foreign suppliers over the past five years.
