Did anyone read the RFP? Here it is, focus on page 5 and 6, the rest is boilerplate.
https://www.neco.navy.mil/upload/N68936 ... 024RFP.pdf
You will note that the product of the RFP is to be a proposal in the form of a specification. (See page 6.) Further note that the specification is to be delivered on December 31, 2009. (See page 10.) And further, as I read the RFP, the project to be specified is included in this RFP by reference. I expect that is about as fast as the Navy can contract for work.
If anyone has access to the complete "Acrobat" system, it would be helpful to cut out the boilerplate and post pages 5 and 6 in the theory forum so that the theoreticians could discuss implications of this requested research.
It would also be helpful if someone with experience in Navy contracting were to review my conclusions and the contract, then tell us what it "Really" means.
Did anyone actually read the RFP?
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Re: Did anyone actually read the RFP?
Done. See STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES from RFP.Aero wrote:If anyone has access to the complete "Acrobat" system, it would be helpful to cut out the boilerplate and post pages 5 and 6 in the theory forum so that the theoreticians could discuss implications of this requested research.
You can just copy from the document:
3.1 RESEARCH STUDY
3.1.1 Contractor shall review the results from Contracts N00014-93-C-0224, N00014-96-C-0039, contract N68936-03-C-0031, and any other publically available current documentation regarding the technical research and development in the field of energy production using a fusion reaction.
3.1.1.2. The review shall primarily investigate the effects of parallel electron heat loss to the coil joints with respect to plasma stability and electron confinement time.
3.2 TESTS
3.2.1 The contractor will modify/upgrade the existing wiffleball #7 (WB-7) device by installing compact, high temperature coil joints to investigate the electron parallel heat loss. This modified device shall hereafter be identified as Wiffleball #7.1 (WB-7.1).
3.2.2 The Contractor shall test the WB-7.1 to measure the plasma beta (ratio of plasma pressure to the applied magnetic field pressure) and to monitor the wiffleball formation process. The contractor will deploy multiple magnetic field probes inside the device to generate time varying magnetic field mapping to investigate the wiffleball formation.
3.3. The contractor shall take the results of the review specified in 3.1 and tests specified in 3.2 and provide a report detailing workable instrumentation set-ups to resolve the plasma production and physics questions raised in the review and tests for a final report for contracts.
DELIVERY INFORMATION
CLIN DELIVERY DATE QUANTITY SHIP TO ADDRESS UIC
0001 31-DEC-2009 N/A
FOB: Destination
000101 31-DEC-2009 N/A
FOB: Destination
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Aero-
Page 6 is just a boilerplate clause that means that the contractor's proposal becomes part of the contract. This solicitation will result in a proposal from the contractor in which he will basically restate what he intends to do to fulfill the solicitation. That proposal, which we will likely not see, will then together with the solicitation become the actual contract document.
Page 6 is just a boilerplate clause that means that the contractor's proposal becomes part of the contract. This solicitation will result in a proposal from the contractor in which he will basically restate what he intends to do to fulfill the solicitation. That proposal, which we will likely not see, will then together with the solicitation become the actual contract document.
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