AMOUNT: EUR 11 000 000
0 . MAJOR CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE HIP
Second modification 18/09/2014
The initial allocation of EUR 10 million was to run ECHO Flight in DRC and Kenya for 12 months. In early 2014 it has been decided to extend it to Mali and Chad. The ECHO Flight contract includes regular schedules (around 400 flight hours every month/6 aircrafts) and additional flight hours for security and medical evacuations and the possibility to adapt the services to evolving humanitarian context. To cover these 2 additional countries the contract has been reduced to 9 months. With the crises in the Central African Republic and South Sudan and the flow of refugees in North Kenya and DRC, a large number of additional hours have been requested by humanitarian partners to transport cargo and staff. In Mali, the initial schedule did not cover the needs and additional flights that have been granted, namely for security and medical evacuations. ECHO Flight may also be called upon to support the current EBOLA crisis in West Africa and is already active to respond to the DRC EBOLA outbreak.
The additional EUR 1 million will allow increasing the ECHO Flight contract reserve dedicated to cover these additional flight hours.
First modification 26/03/2014
Early 2014, ECHO has decided to open an ECHO Flight service in Chad and Mali.
These services are financed until the end of April 2014 under the ECHO Flight HIP 2013 whose budget had been increased. Two additional Caravan C208 have been added to the fleet.
DAC Aviation International Ltd, a Kenya-based operator, has won the call for tender and is going to be the contract holder for the next 4 years.
The amount of the ECHO-Flight HIP 2014 was foreseen to cover the ECHO Flight service in DRC and Kenya. Decision has been taken to maintain the ECHO Flight service in Mali and Chad in addition to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Kenya. Therefore, the present HIP is extended to cover Mali and Chad as well.