Category: Optics, photonics, cryogenics, vacuum technologies, gas technologies
Deadline: 25/07/2019 r.
Original text of ITER annoucment:
Procurement of in-vessel electrical cables
The purpose of this contract is the procurement of mineral insulated (MI) cables including Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) leak tight terminations (so-called “cable assembly”). These cable assemblies will be installed inside of the vacuum vessel (VV) of the ITER machine.
The Contractor shall:
– Procure raw production materials upon specified requirements;
– Manufacture cable assemblies to the selected design and as per the specified requirement for machining, welding and non-destructive examination;
– Test cable assemblies for leak-rate and electrical characteristics;
– Clean cable assemblies as per the specified procedures;
– Pack cable assemblies to preserve their cleanliness and integrity and ship them to IO.The procurement includes the following types of cable assemblies:
– Mineral (alumina or magnesia) insulated twisted pair copper wires, stainless steel sheath, coated by copper, with leak tight termination at both ends (A1);
– Thermocouple type N extension wire with mineral insulation, stainless steel sheath, coated by copper, with leak tight terminations at both ends (A2);
– Mineral insulated cable with one copper wire, stainless steel sheath, coated by copper, with leak tight termination at both ends (A3);
– Thermocouples type N sensor wire with mineral insulation, stainless steel sheath, coated by copper, with sealed hot junction at the one end and leak tight termination at the other end (B1).
How to apply?
ITER Call for Tender is a staged procurement process for high value contracts as described below:
- Stage 1: Call for Nomination, where Domestic Agencies are formally requested to provide the names of potential candidates. The candidates shall liaise with relevant Domestic Agencies to express their interest for a required supplies, services or works. The IO could also add a potential candidate if needed after having informed the DA.
- Stage 2: Pre-qualification, where the IO will establish a list of qualified suppliers amongst the nominated entities, based on specific selection criteria. All nominated companies receive the pre-qualification package.
- Stage 3: Call for Tender, where only the pre-qualified candidates will receive the tender package from IO. Tenderers shall submit offers in response to the Call for Tender package composed of Instructions to Tenderers, IO Technical Specifications, Special and General Conditions of Contracts. The evaluation of the tenders submitted has two steps: first the technical offers are evaluated with respect to the award criteria indicated in the Instructions to Tenderers and only those obtaining scores higher than the technical threshold indicated shall be considered for the financial evaluation. The financial evaluation is based either on the combined quality and price scoring mechanism (best value) or on the cheapest technical compliant offer.Source: ITER website
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