Our briefing notes still call it SAR-H which is what I expect 'UK SAR Helicopters' will be abbreviated to
Will the DfT be expecting the military to provide SMEs to assess technical compliance with the bids as happened before or will they take that task on themselves?
Interesting that they have forced a 2 type service rather than let the bidders suggest options.
it would appear that no current base is 'safe' since there is reference to 'in the vicinity of' current bases rather than specifying that any present bases must be retained.
Let us see what falls out of this process.