APPEAL Canadian training systems developer CAE is appealing against a US Army decision to award a C$1 billion ($760 million) contract for Flight School XXI to train helicopter pilots to an all-American consortium of companies. The appeal follows a debriefing by US military officials informing CAE why the contract was awarded to a rival consortium led by Computer Sciences, and CAE has filed the debriefing with the US General Accounting Office (GAO). CAE teamed with Boeing and says its bid was 16% lower than that of Computer Sciences. The complaint was filed on 7 October, and the GAO has 100 days to make a decision, although an overturn is considered unlikely.
Source: Flight International
