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Looks like a repeat of the cyclone/cormorant
I wonder if the government just decided it couldn't afford the C-27?
I wonder if the government just decided it couldn't afford the C-27?
Industry offsets played key role in fixed-wing SAR award
Price may have been the determining factor in the selection of the C295W for Canada’s next fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft, but opportunities for Canadian companies in the Airbus Defence & Space supply chain were also critical to the successful bid.
The C295W edged out Leonardo’s C-27J in December for a $2.4 billion contract to provide the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) with 16 aircraft to replace aging CC-115 Buffalos and CC-130H Hercules, a new operational training centre, and an initial five years of in-service support. Options for an additional 15 years of maintenance and support services could bring the total contract value to $4.7 billion.
Both bids were deemed compliant, and the final decision ultimately “came down to price,” Judy Foote, Minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada, told Skies in an interview at the time.
However, proposals for industrial and technological benefits (ITBs), or offsets, for Canadian defence and aerospace companies received considerable weight in the final analysis, said Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), speaking in Montreal on April 3 during International Aerospace Week.
“Airbus won the competition in large part because its value proposition [VP] included strong partnerships with Canadian industry,” he said.
Bains noted the government’s relatively new VP requirement, which is tailored in consultation with prospective bidders for each major capital defence procurement, was purposely structured to take advantage of Canada’s commercial and defence technological strengths and “ensure the aircraft would be maintained in Canada by Canadians.”
...Bains and [John] MacInnis [deputy director of ITBs for ISED] pointed to Airbus partnerships with Pratt & Whitney Canada, CAE, Heroux-Devtek and Provincial (PAL) Aerospace as examples of what well-crafted ITBs can deliver. Airbus and Pratt & Whitney, for example, plan to develop a variant of the PW127G turboprop engine for Canadian and other C295 customers, while CAE is expected to build a “turnkey training solution” that could be exported.
And for ISS, Airbus and PAL have created AirPro, a Canadian company that could eventually provide ISS-related program management, engineering and other services to international fleets of C295 aircraft.
Both also emphasized that similar opportunities for small- and medium-sized businesses would be available under the CF-188 fighter jet replacement and interim F/A-18 Super Hornet acquisition projects.
https://www.skiesmag.com/news/industry-offsets-played-key-role-fixed-wing-sar-award/
MarkOttawa said:As ever Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
Mark
Ottawa
Dimsum said:If, god forbid, one goes down and there are casualties/fatalities, imagine the public outcry of "how dare the RCAF buy inferior equipment!"
Eye In The Sky said:*Not good in icing* + Canadian SAR Regions = .............
Ice can make things go REALLY bad for a crew and their ride.
YZT580 said:Try this. http://www.baaa-acro.com/2012/archives/crash-of-a-casa-c-295m-in-mende-6-killed/ and that was over the Med. now try Atlantic Canada or even around Toronto
YZT580 said:Try this. http://www.baaa-acro.com/2012/archives/crash-of-a-casa-c-295m-in-mende-6-killed/ and that was over the Med. now try Atlantic Canada or even around Toronto
Eye In The Sky said:
Chris Pook said:One of my more memorable flights - and I have had a couple - was as a passenger in a DASH 8 sitting beside the props climbing out through an ice-cloud, and suddenly wondering where that machine gun was. Disconcerting when the props start flinging chunks of ice up against the fuselage on which you are leaning.
SeaKingTacco said:There is a protective shield or patch on the Dash-8 fuselage right abeam the propeller to protect the skin of the aircraft for damage caused by ice shedding from the propellers.
Colin P said:As I understand the issue, they can deice or run the equipment in the back, but not both, I suspect if I am wrong I will be shortly corrected here. :nod: