Better we should not win this tender. Why would we import billion dollar worth palm oil for selling an engineering product,why would we disturb local oil producing farmers? By doing so Malaysia is getting an aircraft & buisness for their farmers & palm oil industries. The biggest loser here is the one who sell aircraft to them.
That's how military deals with countries that don't take security as seriously as others are. Their main goal is to get minimum capabilties necessary along with political-economic benefits. The latter is of greater importance to them.