DTN News: Pentagon Contract Announcement For Oshkosh Corporation

DTN News: Pentagon Contract Announcement For Oshkosh Corporation Source: U.S. DoD issued May 20, 2010 (NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - May 21, 2010: In accordance with Pentagon contract for Oshkosh Corporation., details are as undermentioned; ~Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on May 17 a $72,686,593 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 1,460 rocket propelled grenade kits, 45 prescribed loads lists and eight deprocessing spares for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles. Work is to be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2012. Five bids were solicited with five bids received. TACOM, AMSCC-TAC-ADCA, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-09-D-0111). The £600,000 Husky will be used by British Army patrols in Helmand province. But the Pentagon has now ordered another armoured off-roader, the Oshkosh M-ATV, which has a V-shaped hull designed to deflect explosions - and costs only £300,000, half as much as the Husky. The cost difference is partly due to the U.S. military buying 2,000 vehicles. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199136/MoD-chiefs-blew-150m-wrong-trucks-Afghanistan.html#ixzz0oYhMWNTM OR http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199136/MoD-chiefs-blew-150m-wrong-trucks-Afghanistan.html ~Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on May 17 a $68,914,367 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 509 explosively formed penetrator protection kits and 12 month of a field service representative in the continental U.S. for the M-ATV. Work is to be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2012. Five bids were solicited with five bids received. TACOM, AMSCC-TAC-ADCA, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-09-D-0111).