A joint bid has been put together by Boeing and Thales in an effort to supply new armoured vehicles to the British Army, it has been reported.
According to The Business, the American and French companies have combined in a £16 billion deal which they hope will give them procurement rights.
If everything goes to plan, the organisations will provide 3,000 new medium-weight armoured vehicles to the military, in what the news body described as the army's "most important procurement scheme".
It added that the bid will be for the systems-of-systems integrator and that it will be announced "within days".
"We've had discussions with a variety of industry partners but we have not formalised a teaming agreement to date," said a Boeing spokesman.
Last week, defence minister Lord Drayson announced a major reform of the military procurement system, claiming it was of the utmost important.
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