Solicitation for the Overhaul of the Main Rotor Blade for the UH-60 Black Hawk

The Army Materiel Command Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal seeks overhaul services for UH-60 Black Hawk main rotor blades (NSN 1615-01-106-1903), with proposals due August 31, 2026. The procurement is a firm fixed-price IDIQ with three one-year ordering periods, restricted to five approved sources: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, International Aviation Composites, Israel Aerospace Industries–Bedek Accessories Mata, Aviation Blade Services Inc., and Advance Composite Structures Florida LLC.

Place of performance is Huntsville, Alabama. The solicitation includes both Category III overhaul (45 units per period for U.S. blades, 14 units for Foreign Military Sales blades in periods two and three) and Category I/II overhaul (15 units per period for U.S. blades, 4 units for FMS blades in periods two and three), with a minimum 60-unit obligation on the first delivery order and a maximum of 216 units across the contract period. Contractors must submit firm fixed unit prices for each category across all three ordering periods, along with separate pricing for scrap and container services.

This is a Critical Safety Item acquisition requiring compliance with QE-STD-1 (manufacturing controls, 100 percent inspection of nondestructibly inspectable Critical Characteristics, personnel certification, ten-year records retention) and QE-STD-2 (maintenance and overhaul standards including frozen process planning, Materiel Review Board procedures, and subcontractor oversight). Contractors must submit a frozen Maintenance and Overhaul Plan within 30 days of award and implement Total Asset Visibility–Contractor (TAV-C) reporting via DLMS or Army portal, requiring Common Access Card or DoD ICAM multi-factor authentication. Additional deliverables include Government Property inventory reporting, shipping and packaging discrepancy reports, and Army Maintenance Management System–Aviation (TAMMS-A) forms via portal at https://tamms-a.redstone.army.mil. Amendment 0003, posted July 23, 2026, replaced DFARS 252.225-7052 with DFARS 252.225-7961, restricting delivery of samarium-cobalt magnets, neodymium-iron-boron magnets, tantalum, and tungsten refined or produced in North Korea, China, Russia, or Iran, with exceptions for commercially available off-the-shelf items and U.S.-manufactured recycled content. The NAICS code is 336413, Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing; PSC is 1615, Helicopter Rotor Blades, Drive Mechanisms and Components.