2023 Report details for project: New Medium Helicopter
| Project name | New Medium Helicopter - there are 3 reports for this project: 2021, 2022, 2023 |
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| Organisation | MOD (D17 ) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2023 (data is from September 2022) |
| Category | Military - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | The New Medium Helicopter programme intends to rationalise five rotary wing requirements through the procurement of one new medium lift helicopter-type. This approach will maximise commonality allowing improvements in efficiency and operational flexibility. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the IPA's DCA rating at 22/23-Q4 remained at Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors. The delay in securing the Outline Business Case approval. Significant work is ongoing to secure approval which will enable the main part of the New Medium Helicopter competition to proceed through the release of an Invitation-to-Negotiate which is expected later this year. |
| Start date | 2021-04-30 |
| End date | 2031-09-30 |
| Schedule text | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's end-date at 22/23-Q4 increased from 2028-07-07 to 2031-09-30. This is primarily due to the following factors. Since the initial report, further analysis on the programme schedule has been conducted and the financial profile was amended as part of the Ministry of Defence's Annual Budget Cycle 2022. This has led to a revision in the programme's projected end-date. |
| Baseline | £3.90m |
| Forecast | £3.29m |
| Variance | -16.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. This is primarily due to the following factors: The minor underspend results from activities moving into FY23/24 as a result of the programme not achieving the stretch target of Outline Business Case approval during FY22/23. |
| Whole Life Cost | £1,329.00m |
| WLCost text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 22/23-Q4 increased from 1172m. to 1329m. This is primarily due to the following factors. The programme received an uplift to safeguard the capabilities that the New Medium Helicopter programme plans to deliver. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2023.csv |
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