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Edge Beryllium Tender, USA - 103915643

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION has floated a tender for Edge Beryllium. The project location is USA and the tender is closing on 23 Jul 2024. The tender notice number is 80GSFC24ED0BE, while the TOT Ref Number is 103915643. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Edge Beryllium

Deadline : 23 Jul 2024

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 103915643

Document Ref. No. : 80GSFC24ED0BE

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Description

NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement for 898 lbs. of I-220-H instrument-grade beryllium to support the construction of the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) 1.2 m diameter Beryllium (Be) telescope being built by General Dynamics Missions Systems (GDMS) as per the guidelines and criteria of the 2023 Earth System Explorers (ESE) competitive Announcement of Opportunity (AO) # NNH23ZDA016O.

Under the authority of the competitive Announcement of Opportunity NNH23ZDA016O, NASAs Earth System Explorers (ESE) program selected four proposals, including EDGE, for concept studies of missions to help NASA better understand Earth science key focus areas including greenhouse gases, the ozone layer, ocean surface currents, and changes in ice and glaciers around the world. These four investigations are part of the agency-s new ESE Program - which conducts principal investigator-led space science missions as recommended by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2017 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space.

Beryllium is a critical component required to manufacture the EDGE telescope due to the metal-s unique qualification of being light, strong, less prone to expansion and shrinkage, magnetically more transparent, and a better electrical and thermal conductor than alternative materials. I-220-H grade beryllium metal has the highest tensile yield strength and highest micro yield strength (PEL) of all beryllium metal grades and is the NASA standard material of choice for all Space telescopes. The I-220-H grade NASA selects for space applications is only available from Materion Brush Inc., because no other vendor has the access and knowledge to mine beryllium containing bertrandite ore from the vertically integrated Materion delta mine in Utah. Materion Brush is the only US based manufacturer of beryllium metal with the other commercially available sources being in Kazakhstan and China, making...
Active Contract Opportunity Notice ID 80GSFC24ED0BE Related Notice Department/Ind. Agency NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Sub-tier NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Office NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Presolicitation (Original)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA
Original Published Date: Jul 08, 2024 10:19 am EDT
Original Response Date: Jul 23, 2024 12:00 pm EDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Original Inactive Date: Aug 07, 2024
Initiative: None

Classification
Original Set Aside:
Product Service Code: 9610 - ORES
NAICS Code: 212290 - Other Metal Ore Mining

Place of Performance: USA