Projects Team Advises The Ministry Of Defence On '695 Million Investment Support For Project Hawk

• Published date: 13 April 2022
• Subject Matter: Government, Public Sector, Government Contracts, Procurement & PPP
• Law Firm: Gowling WLG
• Author: Ms Elizabeth Williams, Helena Eyles, Dan O'Donnell and Adam Bolton

The Projects team from the international law firm Gowling WLG with support from cross-firm expertise, has supported the Ministry of Defence on its 11-year '695 million investment to provide in-service support to the RAF's fleet of Hawk T2 training aircraft and the Hawk T1 jets flown by the Red Arrows.

For the past 2 and a half years, the firm's Projects and Infrastructure team has supported Project Hawk, a Category A project for the Ministry of Defence.

Negotiated in a single source environment with BAES under the Single Source Contract Regulations 2014, the Hawk Integrated Support Solution contract relates to the delivery of essential support to the Hawk T1 and T2 aircraft fleet, which are flown by the Red Arrows, and is the fast jet trainer for the UK Armed Forces (associated with UK MFTS) and aggregates the core contracts into a prime contract.

Partner Elizabeth Williams led the legal team which included Helena Eyles, Adam Bolton, Emma Kensett and Dan O'Donnell. With additional specialist support from Dominic Richardson, Patrick Arben, Kate Robards, Ben...