SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNITS TO RECEIVE NEW DUNE BUGGY



Neat addition to the SoF tool kit.

Polaris’s government and defense business has been awarded a potential seven-year, $109 million contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) to build a light tactical all-terrain vehicle for the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

This follow-on contract is for the Polaris MRZR Alpha, a new light tactical vehicle. The seven-year contract has a value of up to $109 million and was awarded on May 29, 2020, following a competitive bid process.


The company was previously awarded a five-year contract worth $83 million from SOCOM in 2015 to produce the MRZR 2 and MRZR 4 lightweight tactical all-terrain vehicles for SOCOM. Polaris’s 2015 MAZR contract was awarded as a “sole-source” contract; the company was apparently the only company SOCOM deemed capable of fulfilling the requirements for this type of vehicle.


Now, five years later, SOCOM is ready to re-up that contract after Polaris had beat out its competitors for another seven years. This time SOCOM will have Polaris supply as much as $109 million worth of new light tactical vehicles which are named the “Polaris MRZR Alpha.”