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Leonardo Helicopters, Strategic Partnering Agreement
Leonardo and Morson Praxis have enjoyed a successful partnership spanning over two decades, collaborating on a wide range of engineering programmes across the UK’s aerospace sector. This latest contract marks an exciting milestone, extending the partnership into its third decade and reinforcing a shared commitment to innovation, quality, and long-term collaboration.
Client Brief
Strengthening Engineering Capability
As the UK’s only onshore helicopter manufacturer, Leonardo sought to expand and strengthen its engineering capacity to support growing project demands and enhance operational efficiency. The company required a trusted partner with proven expertise in aerospace design, engineering management, and project delivery to help augment its existing teams.
Project Overview
A Strategic Partnership for the Future
Under a new long-term Strategic Partnering Agreement (SPA), Morson Praxis will support Leonardo by managing engineering work through sub-contractors and fixed-price work packages coordinated across our UK design offices.
This agreement formalises a long-standing collaboration, ensuring flexible, high-quality engineering support that enables Leonardo to maintain its world-class standards while continuing to deliver cutting-edge helicopter technologies.
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Showcasing a Partnership Built on Engineering Excellence
Testimonials
Hear from the experts
Adam Clarke, Managing Director of Leonardo Helicopters UK, commented:
“This Strategic Partnering Agreement enables Leonardo and Morson Praxis to not only strengthen relations between the two companies, but it also secures engineering work and supply chain resilience across the UK. Furthermore, if we are successful on large contracts like the UK MOD New Medium Helicopter programme, we will have a number of skills available to us to support UK prosperity and our engineering ecosystem.”
Becky Veal, Associate Director at Morson Praxis, shares:
“Over the years we have established a long-term relationship with Leonardo, which we are now looking forward to taking to the next phase of becoming a long-standing sustainable partner.
“As industry experts we pride ourselves on our collaborative approach and reactive working, which has enabled us to be in a unique position to support Leonardo Helicopters, delivering a wide range of solutions from resourcing to engineering offload.”
Matt Thompson, Head of Engineering Delivery for Leonardo Programme at Morson Praxis, added:
“The Prime Supplier Status award is the culmination of many successful years of Leonardo and Morson Praxis working collaboratively and is testament to the hard work, passion, and commitment of everyone involved.
“Morson Praxis are delighted that we can continue to work with Leonardo’s industry leading products and be at the forefront of capability enhancement.”
