According to Business Standard, India’s Ministry of Defense officials have discovered three years later that Dassault’s Rafale bid was not the cheapest in the tender.
“An inexperienced MoD, working off incomplete and sketchy details provided by Dassault, had incorrectly adjudged the Rafale cheaper. Now, after three years of obtaining clear figures from the French, we find India would be paying significantly more than had been initially calculated,” says an official involved in negotiating the deal.