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36 -- TWO WELDED ALUMINUM SECONDARY SUPPORT FRAMES SOL RC970227 DUE 121997 POC Andrew Flach, Contracts Manager, 520-318-8537 WEB: General information about the Gemini Project, www.gemini.edu. E-MAIL: Contact Contracts Manager via email, aflach@gemini.edu. The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) is seeking qualified vendors to provide two aluminum Secondary Support Frames for the Gemini 8m Telescopes Project. Each assembly will be a welded aluminum structure approximately 1 meter in depth, 1 meter in width, and 2 meters in height, with a mass of approximately 220 kg. The assemblies will be fabricated based upon detailed design drawings provided by AURA. The Gemini 8m 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, Inc. (AURA) under contract to the National Science Foundation. Companies that are interested in receiving the Invitation for Bid for this procurement should send a letter of interest by 19 December, 1997, to the following address: Gemini 8m Telescopes Project, 950 North Cherry Avenue, PO Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85719-6732 (PO Box) 85719 (Street address), Attn: Contracts Manager, Invitation for Bid No. RC970227. Facsimile 520-318-8590. (0346)

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