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What's the big deal?
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Leyland's battle plan is to land the biggest single vehicle purchase made by the Ministry of Defence for more than 20 years. The Combat Support Vehicles Heavy (CSVH) project involves 8,500 vehicles, ranging from light trucks to HGVs and recovery vehicles.
The MO puts the initial procurement cost at around £1.4bn, but the deal also requires support for the trucks throughout their 20-year projected service lives—and could lead to export contracts.
The contract is split into a cargo requirement and a recovery requirement, comprising: • Six-tonne (payload) 4x4 medium-mobility Light Cargo Vehicles; • Nine-tonne 6x6 medium-mobility and improved mediummobility Medium Cargo Vehicles (including a 7,000-litre fuelcarrying variant);
1115-tonne medium-mobility 8x8 Heavy Cargo Vehicles (to be built by Oaf in Eindhoven);
• 400 recovery vehicles and 70 trailers, including heavy and medium-capability wheeled recovery vehicles and recovery trailers.
Invitations to tender (ITTs) have gone to groups led by Leyland Trucks, MAN, Mercedes-Benz and two US-based firms: Oshkosh Truck Corporation and Stewart & Stevenson Tactical Vehicles Systems.
A prime contractor is expected to be named by this autumn. The first vehicle is expected to be delivered for trials in 2005 before going into service the following year.