Procurement and sourcing
You define the operational requirement. We survey the market, verify that candidates can deliver at the quantity and schedule you need, and return one offer, one contract, one delivery schedule and one warranty chain.
Defence procurement & integration · Ljubljana · European Union
One counterparty. A whole industrial base.
Noric Defence connects government customers with manufacturers across Slovenia and Central Europe — and takes responsibility for the part that usually goes wrong: classification, licensing, end-user documentation, delivery and verification.
Documented before anything moves
Every engagement is classified and screened before we quote. Nothing ships without an end-user certificate and an issued licence.
European supply, European content
Our sourcing base is Slovenian and Central European. Where a programme carries EU content thresholds, we can evidence origin down to the component.
Named principals, no hidden chain
There are no undisclosed intermediaries between you and the manufacturer. We disclose every party, because the licence application requires it anyway.
What we do
We do not manufacture. We are accountable for what is delivered.
Noric Defence works between a government requirement and the companies that can meet it. We carry the commercial contract, the licensing burden and the delivery risk, so the customer deals with one organisation instead of a supply chain.
Integration and delivery
Where the requirement is a capability rather than an item, components come from several manufacturers. We make them work together and arrive as one delivery: testing, packing, transport of controlled goods, customs, acceptance.
Sustainment and lifecycle support
Acquisition is the short part. Most of the cost sits in the twenty years afterwards: spares, obsolescence management, repair routing, operator and maintainer training, documentation in your working language.
Offset and industrial cooperation
Where an acquisition carries an industrial return obligation, the obligation is usually harder to satisfy than the delivery. We treat it as part of the offer: local assembly, maintenance capacity, component manufacture, technology transfer.
Portfolio
Categories, not a catalogue
These are the areas we work in. Specific models, configurations and technical data are deliberately absent: for controlled items that material is itself controlled technology. It is released to identified government customers under a non-disclosure agreement.
Land systems and vehicles
Armoured and tactical vehicles, upgrades and modernisation, remote weapon stations, spare parts and service support.
Artillery and ammunition
Small, medium and large calibre ammunition, mortar ammunition, components, propellants and fuzes, stockpile life-cycle management.
Small arms and light weapons
Pistols, assault and sniper rifles, machine guns, barrels and components, optics and accessories, range equipment and training.
Unmanned systems and counter-UAS
Unmanned aerial systems for reconnaissance and surveillance, autonomous ground platforms, drone detection and defeat, ground stations and operator training.
Protection, CBRN and personal equipment
Ballistic protection and helmets, CBRN detection and decontamination, mobile laboratory containers, personal and field equipment.
Simulation, training and sensors
Live-fire and vehicle simulators, mobile training centres, opto-electronics and sensor systems, communications and command systems.
Deployable infrastructure
Container systems, field hospitals, command posts, air-supported structures, water treatment and field power supply.
Logistics and in-service support
Transport of controlled goods under ADR and IMDG, consolidation and storage, customs procedures, spares packages, overhaul routing.
Manufacturers we represent
We publish every manufacturer we represent here — by name, with a link to their own site and the scope of the representation — as soon as the agreement is signed and the manufacturer has consented in writing. Until then this space stays empty.
An empty space is better than a logo wall nobody can verify. If you want to know whether we can reach a particular manufacturer or a particular capability, ask — we will answer specifically.
How we work
How a requirement becomes a delivery
Most defence suppliers leave this unexplained. It is the part of the transaction where deals actually fail, so we publish it.
01Enquiry
The operational requirement, quantity, destination and timeframe. We ask three things in return: the entity you represent, the intended end user, and whether you are the end user or acting for one.
02Classification
Every item against the EU Common Military List (ML1–ML22) or the dual-use control list. This determines which authority licenses the transaction and which documents you will need. Nothing is quoted before this is settled.
03Screening
Destination, end user and every intermediate party against UN, EU and OSCE embargoes, sanctions lists, and the eight criteria of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP. If a destination will not survive this, we say so now.
04Offer
Configuration, quantity, schedule, Incoterms, warranty and in-service support — with an explicit list of the documents each side must produce, and by when.
05End-user documentation
An End-User Certificate issued or endorsed at ministry level, naming the end user and the end use, and carrying an undertaking not to re-export without consent. This is the stage most often underestimated.
06Licence
Application to the competent Slovenian authority for the specific transaction. For destinations outside the EU an individual licence; for member states a transfer licence under Directive 2009/43/EC.
07Delivery
Notification to the ministry at least three days before the goods cross the border. Transport under ADR or IMDG with agreed security, customs clearance, delivery and joint acceptance.
08Verification
A Delivery Verification Certificate where your authority requires one. We report the completed transaction to the ministry within fifteen days. Any re-transfer or re-export requires prior written authorisation.
What this takes. Classification and screening, one to three weeks. Offer, two to four weeks. Licence, two to eight weeks and longer for sensitive destinations. Full cycle, first enquiry to delivery: six to twenty-four months. Anyone quoting materially less is either not licensing the transaction or has not told you something.
The name
Ferrum Noricum
Noricum was a Celtic kingdom on the territory of present-day Slovenia and Austria. Its iron — ferrum Noricum — was regarded as the finest steel of the ancient world. Rome imported it for four centuries and armed its legions with it; in antiquity the name was a mark of quality, not merely of origin.
We do not take the name as a claim on that history. It records two things: where we work — European material, European supply chain — and what the business is for. The company was established in 2026 and builds its credibility on authorisations, procedure and people, not on inheritance.
Regnum Noricum
c. 400 BC – AD 45
Standard
Compliance here is not a policy page
For a company of our type it is the product. Everything else we offer depends on being a party a government can lawfully contract with, and on documentation that survives audit years after delivery.
Export control
We operate under the regime of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union: the Defence Act and its implementing regulation, Common Position 2008/944/CFSP, Directive 2009/43/EC, Regulation (EU) 2021/821, UN, EU and OSCE embargoes, and the Arms Trade Treaty.
Anti-corruption
We do not pay, offer or accept any payment or advantage intended to influence a procurement decision. We do not engage agents whose role is not disclosed to the customer. Every commission arrangement is disclosed in writing.
What we do not do
We do not hold stock of controlled goods and we do not publish inventory lists. We do not act for undisclosed principals. We do not quote before classification and screening. We do not supply private individuals.
Contact
Tell us the requirement, not the product
- Address
- Noric Defence
Derčeva ulica 29, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Procurement and offers
- Marko Matijevic
marko@noricdefence.com - Partnerships and suppliers
- Denis Kadiric
denis@noricdefence.com - General
- info@noricdefence.com
Who we respond to
We respond to enquiries from identified government entities, armed forces, government agencies, prime contractors and manufacturers. We do not supply private individuals. In your first message, please state the entity you represent, the country, the intended end user, and whether you are the end user or acting on behalf of one — these are the same questions a licence application will ask.