UK Simons Observatory (SO:UK) Consortium - Small Apeture Telescope Platform (SATP)
What the buyer wrote
A Request for Proposals (RFP) was conducted by University of California, San Diego, in May 2018 for a vendor to design and construct small aperture camera platforms for the Simons Observatory (SO) which is a US-led international project to construct a group of CMB telescopes in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It has been designed to address new science challenges, and is due to begin operations in 2023. In order to address its primary science goals, the SO collaboration has designed a single experiment that is unique amongst its peers in the field of CMB studies . The major UK contribution to SO is to specifically build, deploy, commission and operate an array of two small aperture te…
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- What the buyer calls it
- UK Simons Observatory (SO:UK) Consortium - Small Apeture Telescope Platform (SATP)
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- goods
- Where
- in the North West
Who the buyer named
Mark Worrall was the named contact on this notice.