$67.2M in MAC Police Trucks for Iraq

MAC International in Dubai, UAE was awarded a delivery order amount of $67.2 million as part of a $171.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for Police Trucks. Work will be performed in Detroit, MI, and is expected to be complete by June 30, 2009. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Sept. 22, 2005, and 12 bids were received by the Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Warren, MI (W56HZV-06-D-D044).

Al Mansour Iraqi Co. (MAC Iraq) is a joint venture company with General Motors Corp. equity participation. Appointed in 2003 as the official distributor of GM Products for Iraq, MAC has established operations in Baghdad and Northern Iraq backed by its offices in Dubai. Since its inception, MAC Iraq has sold and delivered more than 18,000 trucks and passenger vehicles into the Iraqi market. That said, one of the more common refrains we hear from Iraq vets is that the Iraqi Army and police forces need to be able to ride around in vehicles that offer them some protection. Many Americans consider the up-armored HMMWV inadequate to perform essentially the same job Iraqis are doing in pickup trucks et. al.