Training hours
Is this why the CHC bid was so much more expensive? As a company already providing SAR and aware of the needs, did CHC cost in the training it knew to be necessary rather than the training minimum as specified?
(Leaving aside, of course, the conspiracy theory that CHC didn't want this job anyhow. I'm wondering why any company might go to the enormous trouble of putting together this kind of bid with no intention of winning the contract at the end of it. I know I wouldn't. Unless perhaps I wanted to provide the DfT with some kind of benchmark of good practice - a noble aim, but a little unlikely in the current economic climate!)