HF Fiber and PMT Purchases

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HF - Fiber and PMT Purchases
By Y. Onel U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA CMS Meeting,
CERN, Dec 1-8,01
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HF - Fiber and PMT Purchases

• RFPs were sent out July 5th
• Responses were open Sept 4th
• We had a committee meeting at FNAL on Sept 13th

• Committee on Fibers
• N. Akchurin
• P. de Barbaro
• I. Dumanoglu
• J. Freeman
• Y. Onel
• I. Schmidt

• B. Committee on PMTs
• W. Anderson
• N. Akchurin
• J. Elias
• J. Freeman
• S. Los
• Y. Onel
• D. Winn

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RFP No 51970 PMTs

• Hamamatsu 9766 pts
• EMI 8704 pts
• Photonis 4864 pts

RFP No 51970 Fiber QP

• Polymicro 9680 pts
• Lucent 8472 pts
• Ceramoptec 7322 pts

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Proposal Evaluation Criteria

• Price, Technical specs, Performance factors with
• bidders ability to meet delivery schedule
• Technical specs / ability to manufacture 1600
  pts
• Ability to meet delivery plan 1600 pts
• Fabrication plan 1600 pts
• Experience 1600 pts
• Quality Control 1600 pts
• Cost 2000 pts
• Total 10,000 pts

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• Draft Contracts based on RFPsSent to
  university legal council and sponsored programs
  on 10.17.01
• Purchase orders based on RFPs were
  written.Sent to University Legal council and
  sponsored programs on 10.15.01 / 10.16.0 PMT and
  Fiber respectively.
• Agreement has been reached between Iowa and TTU
  sponsored programs on how to pay the bills since
  funding for fiber and PMTs were equally
  distributed between Iowa and TTU.

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Approval Process

• Purchasing department final approval
• University legal council approval
• University business manager approval
• Board of Reagents committee (since gt 250k)
• Placed the order on 11/1/01 (Done !)

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Purchase Orders

• Fiber 995km QP_at_ 1.29/m with option of additional
  120km at the same price Jan, Decision time-
  Eliminated two Russian performs for production-
  Blend of Saint-Gobain PLC and Heraeus Core Glass
• PMTs R7525HA 2600_at_ 202.28/tube with 20
  uniformity- Option R7525HACC with 30 uniformity
  _at_ 168.56/tube.
• problem about 4 months before initial small
  quantity can be delivered and R7525HCC was never
  built or tested with the new proposed method

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Recent Developments - Fibers

• Meeting at Polymicro on 11/14/01Several issues
  were resolved on test procedures.
• Exception by Polymicro on the attenuation at
  300nm was modified .Polymicro will produce First
  Article fiber 40-50 km of production fiber.
  Attenuation values obtained and rejection
  criteria will be defined.
• Polymicro produced a detailed report on the QP
  fiber testing for core materials using two main
  performs Heraus and Saint-Gobain
• Next meeting in January.

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Recent Developments - PMTs

• Hamamatsu has agreed to produce 10 bases with
  divider ratio411.511.2 332 bases
  with divider ratio4111 22
• Hamamatsu has agreed to provide the PMTs with
  bar-coding
• Iowa has purchased bar code reader
• First 20 PMTs will arrive late December/early
  Jan
• M. Miller has constructed 8-channel, computer-
  controlled electrometer
• New Digital scope Tek TDS5104 has been ordered.