Air Force to buy P68.9M worth of spare parts for attack helicopters

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Mar 14): Air Force to buy P68.9M worth of spare parts for attack helicopters
The Philippine Air Force has earmarked P68.9 million to purchase spare parts needed for the maintainance of its new AgustaWestland AW-109E “Power” attack helicopters.

The approved amount is covered by two contracts for the procurement of spare parts for the eight aircraft that the Air Force acquired in 2015.

In a bid invitation, a total of P68,928,376.65 has been allocated for the projects – P31,420,483.32 for Lot 1, and P37,507,893.33 for Lot 2

Last year, the Air Force bought eight of the attack helicopters from Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland for P3.4 billion.

The first two AW-109E helicopters were commissioned in August 2015 while the remaining six were delivered and accepted into the Air Force in December last year.

A pre-bid conference will be held on Monday, March 14, at 1 p.m. at the PAF Procurement Center conference room in Villamor Air Base, Pasay City.

Interested bidders may purchase bid documents for a non-refundable fee of P25,000.
Prospective bidders must have experience in similar project within the last five years.

The deadline for submission and opening of bids will be on March 31, 9 a.m. also at the PAF Procurement Center conference room. 

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