Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of vacuum button feedthroughs for the LHC beam position monitors

This document concerns the award of a contract for the supply of 4250 button feedthroughs for the LHC beam position monitors. Following a market survey carried out among 42 firms in fourteen Member States and two firms in the USA and a price enquiry for qualifying prototypes sent to five firms and a consortium comprising two firms in the Member States and to two firms in the USA (DO-17399/SL/LHC) a call for tenders (IT-2530/SL/LHC) was sent on 21 February 2000 to two firms in the USA. By the closing date, CERN had received two tenders. The Finance Committee is invited to agree to the negotiation of a contract with the firm CERAMASEAL (USA), the lowest bidder, for the supply of 4250 button feedthroughs for the LHC beam position monitors for a total amount of 897 524 USD (1 468 222 Swiss francs), not subject to revision, with an option for the supply of up to 500 additional button feedthroughs, for a total amount of 105 590 USD (172 730 Swiss francs), not subject to revision, bringing the total amount to a maximum of 1 003 114 USD (1 640 952 Swiss francs), not subject to revision. The firm CERAMASEAL (USA) has declared the following distribution by country of the contract value covered by this adjudication proposal: USA-100%. This contract will be financed in the first instance by CERN with reimbursement to CERN of the costs by the Department of Energy of the Government of the United States of America within the framework of the Accelerator Protocol to the Co-operation Agreement with the USA concerning the contribution of the USA towards the LHC machine.