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Business/Financial

After Corrective Action, CBP Awards $1.3 Billion Aircraft Maintenance Contract To PAE

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020

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After Corrective Action, CBP Awards $1.3 Billion Aircraft Maintenance Contract To PAE

Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations Citation Jet patrols the waters off of a National Park of the U.S. Photo: CBP

PAE last Friday was awarded a potential $1.3 billion contract by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for aircraft maintenance and logistics services, maintaining its incumbency on a program after DynCorp International [DI] was first selected by the agency last May as the awardee after the program was recompeted. The award to DynCorp was protested by PAE and Vertex Aerospace, which also lost out on the recompete. The contract to DynCorp, before it was withdrawn, was worth $1.4 billion over 10…

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