Pentagon Awards $272M Order for Czech H-1 Helicopters

(Source: US Department of Defense; issued Sept. 04, 2020)

Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $272,161,641 fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract for the production and delivery of eight UH-1Y and four AH-1Z helicopters for the government of the Czech Republic.

Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (60%); and Amarillo, Texas (40%), and is expected to be completed in November 2023.

Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $272,161,641 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(f)(2)(e).

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-20-C-0061).

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