Crab.
You really must get it into your head that "beancounters" are exactly the people who are going to decide who gets the harmonisation contract! Nothing you or I say will hold any sway with them whatsoever. Money, or the lack of it, wins every time.
The tender for the interim contract, ably put together by "Crabette"?? and others who know far more about SAR than any of the people in civvy street doing it, asked for lots of things that the S61 does not have, 360 degree radar being one of them! As you rightly point out, neither the S92 nor the AW139 has it????? That tells a story in itself!
When the time comes, are you going to be coming to fly with us nasty civvies or are you going to transfer to Support Helicopters and go on their travels, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.??
Do not look with too much contempt at us. We, well most of us, came down the same road as you!