A lucrative contract to support US Forces in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan is still up for grabs according to Kuwaiti logistics firm KGL, which said on Sunday the US government would accept 'amended bids'.

KGL's announcement on the Kuwait bourse appeared to counter a statement on Friday from Dubai-based ANHAM, which had been awarded the work and said the US government had dismissed a protest filed by KGL against that decision.

Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL), said it had received an email stating that the US Defense Logistics Agency will 'reopen limited talks and receive amended bids,' ahead of making new decisions about the contract.

Gulf state Kuwait has become a major logistics base for the American military since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In the wake of fraud charges against main long-time supplier Agility of Kuwait, the US military awarded a prime vendor contract to Anham.

That sparked an objection from KGL filed in April which argued that ANHAM did not meet minimum bidding requirements.

Agility, formerly Public Warehousing Company (PWC), is in talks with US authorities over accusations it defrauded the military in the Middle East on multibillion-dollar supply contracts spanning 41 months.-Reuters