Distribution system for soldiers’ clothing items is inefficient
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- Date: 01.03.2016
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After the historically most extensive modernization projects, the MOD leadership fulfilled yet another commitment they had made to service personnel. They purchased materiel for military clothing warehouses worth several millions of euros. Despite this, the system for allocating clothing items to soldiers proved to be inefficient. Consequently, the MOD leadership have adopted a new concept to address this long-term problem. “After launching defence modernization, we allocated funds for purchasing military clothing items because we had been listening for long to soldiers, identifying money as being the main problem. However, it turned out that the whole system of how soldiers could access military clothing was wrong. As a result, we’ve decided to change it so as to enable purchases of specific items for real soldiers, rather than making ad hoc purchases in unnecessarily large quantities,” explained Minister of Defence Martin Glváč.
Shortages in the re-distribution of clothing items became evident even during a visit of the Minister of Defence to the warehouses and storage facilities in Nemšová. Although a warehouse may be full of clothing items, these often come in sizes which are currently not on demand. As early as last year, the warehouses had been resupplied with military shirts and tunics, strap belts, field boots, working clothing, winter field jackets, berets, socks and thermal socks, sports clothing, woven or knitted mesh items, and boots for demanding climatic conditions.
The MOD concluded several framework contracts, including for purchases of different types of soldiers’ footwear to the value of € 4.8 million; for purchases of hats, balaclavas, gloves, pullovers worth € 210,000; for purchases of service uniforms, mess uniforms and distinctive representative uniforms worth € 780,000. Other framework contracts were also concluded, including for combat uniforms worth € 4.8 million; sports clothing worth € 1.497 million; shirts and tunics worth € 420,000; and thermal underwear worth € 1.497 million.
Shortages in the re-distribution of clothing items became evident even during a visit of the Minister of Defence to the warehouses and storage facilities in Nemšová. Although a warehouse may be full of clothing items, these often come in sizes which are currently not on demand. As early as last year, the warehouses had been resupplied with military shirts and tunics, strap belts, field boots, working clothing, winter field jackets, berets, socks and thermal socks, sports clothing, woven or knitted mesh items, and boots for demanding climatic conditions.
The MOD concluded several framework contracts, including for purchases of different types of soldiers’ footwear to the value of € 4.8 million; for purchases of hats, balaclavas, gloves, pullovers worth € 210,000; for purchases of service uniforms, mess uniforms and distinctive representative uniforms worth € 780,000. Other framework contracts were also concluded, including for combat uniforms worth € 4.8 million; sports clothing worth € 1.497 million; shirts and tunics worth € 420,000; and thermal underwear worth € 1.497 million.
