L3 Moves to Protect $75 Million Helicopter Training Contract

L3 Doss Aviation wants to intervene in a bid protest challenging its award of a $75 million Army contract to provide helicopter flight training to student pilots at Fort Rucker in Alabama, the company told the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

L3 has a direct interest in the bid protest filed by System Studies & Simulation Inc. because the court could order a bid re-valuation by the Army if the protest is successful, L3 said.

Systems Studies filed the protest under seal Oct. 1.

The company’s redacted complaint contends that the Army failed to recognize strengths in its bid and ...