Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the manufacture and testing of 360 000 field strip cathodes for the drift tube chambers of the CMS muon detector

The Finance Committee is invited to authorize CERN to negotiate on behalf of the Participating Institutes of the CMS Collaboration a contract, without competitive tendering, with the JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (JINR), Dubna, Russia, for the manufacture and testing of 360 000 field strip cathodes for the drift tube chambers of the CMS Muon Detector, for a total amount of 140 000 US dollars, not subject to revision. At the present rate of exchange, this amount is equivalent to approximately 210 000 Swiss francs.