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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 11,1995 PSA#1487Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project, AURA, 950 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, Arizona
85719, Andrew Flach, Contracts Administrator, (520) 318-8537 66 -- CASSEGRAIN ROTATOR AND CABLE WRAP SOL 8100739 DUE 121995.
Contact Point, David Montgomery (520) 318-8410, Contracts Manager,
Kenneth Krohn (520) 321-3411. The Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project is
seeking qualified firms to manufacture, build and test two (2)
Cassegrain Rotators (including Cassegrain Cable Wrap) for the Gemini
8-m Telescopes. A brief description of the system is given wrap. The
manufacture of the Cassegrain Rotator and Cassegrain Cable Wrap will
require fabrication or casting of large steel structures (approx. 1500
Kilograms), and stress relieving and precision machining the same. The
design will utilize a large diameter bearing (1.7 meters) for the
rotator and a segmented curved track for the wrap (3 meters diameter).
The drives for each system are to be provided by precision gear drives
driven by multiple brushless DC servo motors/digital amplifiers
controlled by a multi-axis PMAC controller. Testing of the systems will
include ensuring that precision tracking is achieved and maintained
under simulated operational conditions and loads. Two (2) complete
systems are required. An information package describing the above
system in more detail is available from the Gemini Project Office upon
request. The Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project is an international
collaboration to build two 8-meter telescopes, one to be located on
Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the other to be located on Cerro Pachon in Chile.
The Gemini project partners include the USA, United Kingdom, Canada,
Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The Gemini project is operated by the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under
contract to the National Science Foundation. Companies who are
interested in receiving a Request For Proposal package should send a
letter of interest by December 19, 1995, to the address below: Gemini
8-m Telescopes Project, 950 North Cherry Avenue, PO Box 26732, Tucson,
Arizona 85719-6732, Attn: Contracts Manager, Request for Proposal No.
8100739. (340) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0342 19951208\66-0002.SOL)
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