{"id":52832,"date":"2015-01-23T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=16716e4191555e9f458e8ab5e2f691ce"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:26:00","slug":"news-story-50-million-armoured-vehicles-fleet-support-contract-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52832","title":{"rendered":"News story: \u00a350 million armoured vehicles fleet support contract awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 5-year contract will safeguard 100 jobs, and covers an array of design services including safety advice and elements of operational effectiveness for light, medium and heavy armoured vehicles.<\/p>\n

It also combines a number of existing support contracts into a more efficient and effective contracting agreement, saving taxpayers\u2019 money. <\/p>\n

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Adam Clark from BAE<\/abbr> Systems with Philip Dunne Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology on a Challenger 2 tank [Picture: Andrew Linnett, Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philip Dunne MP, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support & Technology visited BAE<\/abbr> Systems Combat Vehicles facilities at Telford today. <\/p>\n

He said: <\/p>\n

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This contract helps ensure that we sustain a battle-winning armoured vehicle fleet, as well as representing an important investment in armoured vehicles capability within the UK defence supply chain that safeguards UK engineering jobs.<\/p>\n

It is also essential that we deliver high-quality equipment and services at the best possible value for the taxpayer and are able to meet any future capability challenges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Major General Paul Jaques, the Ministry of Defence\u2019s (MOD<\/abbr>) Director Land Equipment, said:<\/p>\n

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Our vehicle fleet has played a vital role on recent operations and will continue to be a key part of the British Army\u2019s capability for years to come, so agreeing this 5 year support contract with BAE<\/abbr> Systems is great news.<\/p>\n

This is another example of how the MOD<\/abbr> is investing in the army\u2019s capability and ensuring our soldiers have well supported equipment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u00a350 million contract has gone to BAE Systems to support the British Army’s armoured tracked vehicle fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52843,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions\/52843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}