$187.5M for Another 1,470 Hummers

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AM General, LLC, South Bend, Ind., was awarded on May 13, 2008, a $187.75 million firm-fixed price contract for 1,470 High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles (Hummers). Work will be performed at Mishawaka, IN and is expected to be complete by Dec. 31, 2009. One bid was solicited and 1 bid received by he US Army TACOM in Warren, MI (DAAE07-01-C-S001). Note that this is just the base delivery; additional funding will be required to add more armor, weapons. communications gear, and other Government Furnished Equipment.

This contract can be added to other recent announcements. See the mid-April 2008 article “$650.1M for 4,526 Hummers” and the early May article “Another 3,216 Hummers for $522.4M”.