Swiss Industry – ITER Organization meeting
Cadarache, Wednesday June 20, 2012

ITER Switzerland organizes and event to promote Swiss technology within ITER Organization
On program: Exchanges with ITER Head of Procurement and Head of Project ITER / Presentation of Swiss Firms/ Exchange with Swiss members of ITER staff / Bilateral discussions / Site visit
Swiss Companies wishing to participate, please contact their ILO.

27^th Symposium on Fusion Technology SOFT 2012
Liège (Belgium), September 24 – 28, 2012
jointly organized by SCK CEN (Belgium) and the Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC)

ITER Switzerland will be running a booth at the Fusion Technology Forum. All Swiss companies wishing to mark their presence at SOFT 2012 are encouraged to contact their ILO.

A number of large contracts have been awarded by F4E in recent months. Please consult the corresponding tender information here if there are any products or services you can offer to the prime contractors. Main recent contracts are:

• 305 Supply of preliminary fabrication & welding procedure specifications and FMU for TBMs EUROFER subcomponents
• 302 Decennial Insurance
• 292 SEALED HELIUM COMPRESSOR FEASIBILITY
• 289 Update and Completion of the Design of the Front-End Cryopumps Cryodistribution
• 284 Fabrication of pre-qualification semi-prototypes of the ITER FW panels (former 097 Lot 1)
  Develop and manufacture 2 semi-prototypes and five small scale mock-ups, representative of the Normal Heat Flux (NHF) design
• 272 OMF Engineering Support in the area of Remote Handling
• 169 Provision of System and Instrumentation Engineering support
• 167 Provision of Material Characterisation at Room and Elevated Temperatures
• 149 Provision of Engineering Support on Joining and Non-Destructive Testing Technologies for Production of ITER Components
• 137 Quality and surveillance support inspectors for the ITER project follow up
• 138 Pre poduction qualification for the procurement of the ITER DIVERTOR NNER Vertical Target Lot 2
• 392 Provision of support services on issues regarding the implementation of ITER and Broader Approach activities to Fusion for Energy
• 298 Engineering Support in the area of Radwaste, Radiological and Environmental monitoring and nuclear safety
• 366 Support Engineering for the Faraday Screen qualification program to CEA (France) – Negociated Procedure

F4E-OPE-301 – Buildings
04.04.2012: Publication of pre-selected candidates:

• 1. Omega Concept (group Leader) (GDF Suez group)
  • Endel (GDF Suez group)
  • INEO Activité Nucléaire et Centrales (GDF Suez group)
  • M+W Germany GmbH (M+W group)
• 2. Sener Ingeniería y sistemas, S.A. (group leader)
  • AREVA NP GmbH
• 3. Ferrovial Agroman S.A. (group leader)
  • INTECSA-INARSA S.A.
• 4. Iberdrola Ingeniería y construcción, S.A. (group leader)
  • Tecnicas Reunidas S.A.

Details on all calls can be found here.
The following list gives a general overview of the main procurement activities being carried out.

F4E-OPE-387
Manufacturing Preproduction Cryopump
Deadline to submit: 15.05.2012

F4E-OPE-279
Gas and Vacuum Plant
Deadline to submit: 11.05.2012

Law firms for the provision of specialized legal services
Call for Expressions of Interest F4E‐ADM‐03 to establish a list of firms, deadline January 22nd, 2013

Details on all the calls can be found here.

Calls for Nominations

May we remind you that the only requirement at the initial stage is to express your interest per email to ITER-Calls@f4e.europa.eu prior to the deadline with your postal address and contact person. Thereupon F4E will forward your email to ITER Organization in Cadarache, who in turn will send you the complete Terms of Reference. You may then decide if you can/want to submit an offer or not.

Calls for Proposals
IO may also from time to time issue Calls for Proposals through its Domestic Agencies, mainly for expertise either from individuals or firms. The Call for Proposal provides all needed information for making a tender, including the email address of the recipient of the tender at IO.