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Bringing the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Business Forum to Washington

16 Sep 2019 - Laban Coblentz, Head of Communication

Every second year, a two-day ºÚÁÏÉçapp Business Forum is held to invite existing and potential suppliers for the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project—laboratories, universities, and companies large and small—to learn about upcoming opportunities to compete for contracts and to present their relevant technological capabilities. Following the IBF-19 meeting held earlier this year in Antibes, a number of those present noted the relatively light participation by US companies. Last week, the US House Science Committee invited ºÚÁÏÉçapp to use their chambers to hold an abbreviated "ºÚÁÏÉçapp US Business Forum" to bring the message to Washington.

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For many participants, the Forum was an eye-opener in terms of how to become a supplier directly to the ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

Interest proved to be keen. Approximately 90 participants attended: from multinational powerhouse companies such Bechtel, Areva, and Skanska, to small businesses specializing in beryllium machining, robotics and remote handling, nuclear system components, and unique diagnostic instruments. Some companies present are already suppliers for the US Domestic Agency, or are at least familiar with the calls for tender issued from the US ºÚÁÏÉçapp Procurement Office. What was new, for nearly all concerned, were the opportunities available to compete directly for contracts with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

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Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, Chair of the US House of Representatives Committee on Space, Science, and Technology, opens the ºÚÁÏÉçapp US Business Forum with a strong statement of support for the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project. She was followed by a similarly enthusiastic statement from Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas (behind her, middle right).

In a brief presentation, the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General described the status of project progress, then laid out a series of opportunities corresponding to coming areas of ºÚÁÏÉçapp need: control engineering, tritium systems, the Hot Cell Complex, and more. Ned Sauthoff, Head of the US ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project Office, spoke briefly about US procurement opportunities, and Mickey Wade, Director of Advanced Fusion Systems at General Atomics, gave his perspective on the unique value of being an industrial supplier to the project.

The discussions that followed were lively. Beyond the ºÚÁÏÉçapp exhibit showing project progress, and handouts on current calls for tender, participants could join any of seven Skype conversations in the room, connected directly with ºÚÁÏÉçapp experts at the worksite. Sergio Orlandi, Director of ºÚÁÏÉçapp's Plant Engineering Department, was on hand to discuss upcoming needs for ºÚÁÏÉçapp's cooling water systems. Tim Luce, ºÚÁÏÉçapp's Chief Scientist, spoke with companies interested in working on ºÚÁÏÉçapp's scientific computing challenges. Christophe Dorschner, Director of ºÚÁÏÉçapp's Procurement and Contracts Division, was available to answer questions about the competition process.
 
All parties agreed that it was a fruitful exchange. And the primary goal—raising awareness among US companies for the business opportunities at ºÚÁÏÉçapp—was certainly met.
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