RRS James Cook Software Control Winch Drive Upgrade
What the buyer wrote
RRS James Cook has a set of six electrically-driven winches and associated hydraulic outhauling equipment that were commissioned about ten years ago. The winches are used for oceanographic research. A winch typically consists of a Storage Winch and a Traction Winch; one of the winches consists only of a Storage Winch. The control system supplied by the OEM is based on two main controllers. These are industrial computers and are essentially ‘black boxes’. It is likely that these will not be fully supported into the future and that they present issues for the ongoing operation and possible future development of the winch equipment. The principle aim of the project is to replace the main …
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- What the buyer calls it
- RRS James Cook Software Control Winch Drive Upgrade
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Nov 2016
- Work ends
- 31 Oct 2020
Who the buyer named
Scientific research was the named contact on this notice.