Contract Award: Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) – $27,500,665

Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $27,500,665 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00001) to a previously awarded order (N0001925F0088) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001921G0012). This effort exercises options to procure the following H-1 structural improvements and electrical power upgrades (SIEPU) Time critical parts: 19 rotorcraft station control units, 18 alternating current generators, 18 generator control units, and 20 tube assemblies, repair and upgrade of nine AH-1W whiskey combining gearboxes (C-Boxes) and two UH-1Y/AH-1Z retrograde condition C-Boxes to AH-1Z SIEPU C-Boxes. Additionally, the effort procures production tooling: Four assembly installation and removal tools, two assembly tools, two assembly holding fixture for quill – torque, one holding fixture needed in mills and jig bore, one inspection fixture, two holding fixtures to install washer seats in shim/stud, five thermal fit tools to seat liners, two holding fixture- dual sided for the Navy. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (76.51%); Tempe, Arizona (6.58%); Grand Rapids, Michigan (5.01%); St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada (1.95%); Lebanon, New Hampshire (1.6%); South Rutherfordton, North Carolina (1.43%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (6.92%), and is expected to be completed in December 2028. Fiscal 2026 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $27,262,324; and fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $238,341, will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order was not completed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.