Contract Award: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) – $34,979,756

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded $34,979,756 for cost-plus-fixed-fee order N0001919F2522 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-16-G-0012).  This order provides engineering and logistics services as well as associated equipment and material in support of AH-1Z aircraft production and AH-1W, UH-1Y and AH-1Z sustainment.  Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (60 percent); Patuxent River, Maryland (10 percent); New River, North Carolina (10 percent); Camp Pendleton, California (10 percent); and Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2020.  Fiscal 2019 aircraft procurement; and fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $33,549,012 will be obligated at time of award, $4,726,472 of which will expire at the end of the fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.