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39 -- ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR AND ASSOCIATED HYDRAULIC LIFT/ELEVATOR FOR USE AT THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY (NIF). DUE 041597 POC Don Potter, Subcontract Administrator Specialist, 510-422-8673 E-MAIL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, April.Masluk@quickmail.llnl.gov. The University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, seeks sources for the design, fabrication, and installation of a robotic manipulator and associated hydraulic lift/elevator for use at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). This system is for service and maintenance of a 10 meter diameter target chamber which is supported on a pedestal approximately 17.3 meters at center above floor level. The system will consist of a lift to position the robot or other loads into the chamber and the chamber robot manipulator. The lift must provide a payload of 15 US tons and insert the robot system through a 1.8 meter diameter cylindrical plenum below the spherical chamber. When not in use, the lift is required to store in a pit below the basement floor directly below the chamber. The robot is stored in an adjacent building and moved onto the lift through a 6 foot wide by 10 foot high door when needed. The robot must provide chamber tile maintenance operations, cleaning operations, video inspection and a man-lift capability. Robot operations will be performed remotely from a control room in an adjacent building to reduce exposure to operators. These operations may include remote autonomous and simple teleoperated tasks. Fabrication, installation, and final acceptance will be coordinated with the NIF facility construction schedule. Interested firms must have past experience in systems (or subsystems) of this nature and should respond with a description of qualifications with respect to the foregoing or related fields. Interested firms should respond with a description of qualifications with respect to the foregoing or related fields. The small business size standard applicable to the proposed acquisition is 500 employees. Firms qualifying as a small business with respect to this standard should so state. Responses are required on or before April 15, 1997. Firms responding to this announcement which fail to provide the required information will not be considered for inclusion into any resulting source list. Facsimile responses to 510-422-9294 will be accepted. This notice is to assist the University in determining the potential for competition; no solicitation is currently available. (0041)

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