US Air Force to award CSAR-X recompete soon
August 16, 2008 by Matthew Potter
Filed under: Agusta Westland, Boeing, commercial aviation, Contract Awards, development program, GAO, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., production program, Proposal, Protest, Sikorsky, U.S. Air Force, UTC
Filed under: Agusta Westland, Boeing, commercial aviation, Contract Awards, development program, GAO, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., production program, Proposal, Protest, Sikorsky, U.S. Air Force, UTC
In a contract that has fallen to the back burner recently due to KC-45 events, the Air Force announced that they would complete the recompete for the CSAR-X by September. Contract award would be soon after. The CSAR-X contract to replace the HH-60 PaveHawk aircraft was originally awarded to Boeing with a variant of the CH-47. Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin protested and won with the GAO ruling that the Air Force did not apply the selection criteria properly. The whole contract was recompeted with Boeing, Sikorsky and Lockheed resubmitting bids.
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