Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL), P.O. Box 999, (MSIN K3-04), Richland, WA 99352

39 -- CASK CART SOL 99-004 DUE 111099 POC Kerry Cullerton, (509) 375-2951 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, kerry.cullerton@pnl.gov. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is seeking expressions of interest from firms qualified to fabricate a cart capable of holding and moving (short distance within a building) the NAC-LWT (Legal Weight Truck) spent fuel transportation cask. The cart will be designed by PNNL and will be used to accept the cask in a horizontal position, move it on a set of rails to mate up with a hot cell in the PNNL radiochemical processing laboratory (RPL) where the contents will be removed and placed in the hot cell. The NAC-LWT cask is essentially a right circular cylinder, approximately 200 inches in length, 45 inches in diameter and weighs approximately 52,000 pounds. The cask will be brought to the RPL by a transport vehicle (truck/trailer) and will be lifted from the trailer by a mobile crane to be provided by PNNL. The cask cart will be fabricated from structural steel and must be capable of supporting the full cask weight while moving to a position lined up with the hot cell. Cask movement to the hot cell will be by a winch, which will be provided by PNNL. The cart must have attachment points front and rear to allow it to be moved to the hot cell and back to the trailer. Work to be performed by the cask fabricator will not involve working in a radiation environment. Interested parties should provide a letter of interest and capabilities statement by U.S. mail, facsimile or e:mail to Ms. Kerry Cullerton at PNNL, P. O. Box 999, Mail-Stop K9-84, Richland, WA 99352, Facsimile (509) 375-2605 by November 10, 1999. Posted 10/26/99 (W-SN395252). (0299)

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