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Contracts - Awards | Forces - Marines | Helicopters & Rotary | Other Corporation | Support & Maintenance | USA

Up to $68.4 million for Component Repair on USMC’s H-1 Helicopters

UH-60L Blackhawk helicopte
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Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. in Fort Worth, TX received a $7.9 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for repair of various components of the US Marine Corps’ AH-1W SuperCobra and UH-1N Huey helicopters. The contract contains provisions for two one-year options which, if exercised, the total cumulative value of the contract will be $68.4 million. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, TX and is expected to be complete by December 2008. This contract was not competitively procured by the Naval Inventory Control Point in Mechanicsburg, PA (N00383-06-D-002N).