As we have agreed before Crab, SAR H depends on the quality of the tender document sent to hopeful contractors and the subsequent contract. Just out of interest, who sat on the committee that wrote those documents? If it was written properly, then the country will get what they deserve, regardless of profit. And do bear in mind that the contractors involved in this bid made their money independently of public money's, thereby being different from almost all other private financed contracts. These companies have got very good at keeping aircraft serviceable and they don't have to lie to do it. At the end of the day, an aircraft lying broken in the hangar is costing a fortune. You don't become a huge mulitnational company by a) taking a gash approach to serviceability and b) having a lumbering bureaucratic maintenance philosophy.