New helo tender due from India
Helicopter manufacturers are waiting for the Indian Ministry of Defense to issue a new tender after it scrapped a deal for 197 light Eurocopter Fennecs lat

Helicopter manufacturers are waiting for the Indian Ministry of Defense to issue a new tender after it scrapped a deal for 197 light Eurocopter Fennecs late last year. Before that, Eurocopter stood as the “preferred bidder” but the contract remained unsigned, awaiting the end of price discussions. It is still unclear whether only the two finalists have been asked to participate, but Bell expects to receive a new request for proposal (RFP) soon.

On February 17, the Times of India quoted Minister A.K. Antony saying no more middlemen will be allowed in this kind of negotiation. “The reason the Indian government gave us is ‘internal problems’ in the administration,” Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling said in January. The explanation differed somewhat from the “deviations from procurement procedures” quote the MoD gave to the aforementioned newspaper.

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