For all you know it could be cheaper.

Government and corporate companies buy cars like these on corporate rate and it could be inclusive of maintenance and what not; depending on how the company quote them. I’m not surprised MB is willing to go all out slashing price and giving free maintenance just so that they can get the deal.

There’s no quotation / proposal shown here. Unless we see the government’s tender specification and what each company quote, no way we can tell whether it is indeed cheaper or not.

But for all I know, it could be cheaper. Depending how hungry the company wants the deal and what’s their strategy once they ink the deal.

For all I know, they could’ve covered all those in their deal with the government.

My previous co. did a 3 months study
for a government agency and we charged a measly 300k with only 5% margin. We still did it because we see a strategic intent in it.

You’ll never know unless they show you what’s inked in the proposal and agreement.