Submarine deal: Successful bid for new Royal Australian Navy boats to be announced next week

The Federal Government is preparing to announce the successful bidder for Australia's new fleet of submarines next week.
The ABC understands Cabinet's National Security Committee discussed the three international bids for the $50 billion contract last night.
While it is not clear if the committee has made a final decision, it has all but eliminated the Japanese bid to build a fleet of 12 submarines to replace the Royal Australian Navy's ageing Collins Class subs.
That leaves France and Germany still in the race.
Defence department officials have had reservations about the Japanese bid from the outset, because it emerged as an understanding struck between former prime minister Tony Abbott and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Officials feared there was less enthusiasm in the Japanese bureaucracy for the deal and that would undo it in the long run.
The Japanese bid has been pushed by some US officials who raised the prospect that America might not allow its most advanced combat systems to be installed in the European subs.
The Government is now convinced that is not that case and one senior source said President Barack Obama had made it clear to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull the submarine deal was a sovereign issue for Australia and there would be no implications for the alliance, no matter which bidder won.
This morning Mr Turnbull was not prepared to confirm whether the decision would be announced prior to the election.
"It will be made in due course, it will be made shortly," he told Adelaide radio station FIVEaa.
"I'm not going to be drawn on dates."
But with South Australian MPs and senators sweating on the announcement there is a small window in which it can be made.
There is currently a Japanese submarine in Sydney Harbour and the Government will not make any statement until it clears Australian waters.
The budget is on May 3 and shortly after that the Prime Minister will ask the Governor-General for an election and no major decisions can be made in the caretaker period.
The new submarine project has been embroiled in politics from the outset with the deal between prime ministers Abbott and Abe sparking fears in South Australia that it would lose its shipbuilding industry.
The political pressure on the Government did not dissipate, even after all three bidders made it clear the subs could be built entirely, or substantially, in Adelaide.
It has been a political gift for popular independent senator Nick Xenophon, who is running candidates in Lower House seats in South Australia at the July election.
Coalition MPs and senators in that state have been pressing the Government for a decision to try to stem the political bleeding that threatens several seats.
The window for the announcement has narrowed to next week, ahead of the budget.
Years of campaigning before announcement
The South Australian campaign to secure the submarine construction work for the state has been underway for about two years, Premier Jay Weatherill said yesterday.
Earlier this year the Defence White Paper revealed the Government planned to order 12 new vessels as part of its future submarine program.
Mr Weatherill said a submarine announcement would be needed before the election to help Liberal Industry, Innovation and Science Minister Christopher Pyne retain the SA seat of Sturt at the federal election.
"I hope Christopher and the team are able to get that organised before the federal election is announced because I think it would be politically suicidal for him not to do so," Mr Weatherill said.
The Liberals need to commit to building the next generation of submarines in Adelaide to avoid a potential voting backlash at the looming federal poll, a politics analyst said.
Professor in politics and international studies Carol Johnson, of the University of Adelaide, said there were electoral risks for the Liberals if Adelaide did not fare well from the submarines project.
"The problem is that the submarines are not only important for their build but also because of some of the high-tech components in it, so potentially it will still be damaging to the Liberals if they just have the ship build [offshore patrol vessels] and not the submarines as well," she said.

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"The Japanese bid has been pushed by some US officials who raised the prospect that America might not allow its most advanced combat systems to be installed in the European subs."