IBM, Siemens bid again on German IT project

March 30, 2005 —

IBM Corp. and Siemens AG are becoming familiar faces in the corridors of the German Defense Ministry in Berlin after having submitted their third bid on a mammoth IT modernization project for the country's armed forces.

"We received a bid from these two companies and are now reviewing it," a Defense Ministry spokesman said Wednesday. "We cannot comment on how long the review process will take or when the project will begin."

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