The U.S. Army awarded Airbus Helicopters a $17.3 million firm-fixed price contract for contractor logistics support parts, support, and sustainment of the service’s U-72 light utility helicopter, the Defense Department said Monday.
Work under the contract includes program management, sub-engineering services, cyber security, logistics labor, other direct costs, contractor manpower reporting, mission equipment packages, pilot transition training, functional check flight training, airframe training, power plant training, and contractor field teams.
Photo: Airbus.
Bids were originally solicited via the Internet with just one received. Fiscal 2017 Army operations and maintenance (O&M) funds of the full contract amount were obligated at award time.
The work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2021. The contracting activity is Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.