CTA is a global endeavour expected to cost in the region of €300 million for equipment and an additional 1,500 person-years of effort. The telescopes will be designed and provided by international consortia of scientists as in-kind contributions to the observatory. The supporting buildings and infrastructure will be procured directly by the Observatory itself and managed by the project office.
CTA’s procurement initiative is to collaborate with industry in an open and unbiased way in order to achieve the best possible results for the execution of its mission.
Industry opportunities will be available over the life of the project with both the CTA Observatory gGmbH and its international consortium design teams. This will include collaborations with organizations that include but are not limited to research and development companies, manufacturers, site services and installation firms, power/data transmission specialists and technology systems vendors.
This page will promote the limited invitations to tender for CTA’s buildings and infrastructure and other central facilities managed by the CTAO gGmbH. Those interested in opportunities with the consortium design teams are encouraged to contact the team leaders found throughout the Project pages of this site or the national/regional representatives listed below directly.
Download the RFP (3 MB) / Contact CTAO Procurement for the full documentation.
The CTAO is seeking individual consultancy services for its Project Office in Bologna (Italy) in the area of Electrical / Electrical Power Engineering. Work includes the development, design and tendering of the observatory power infrastructure, consisting of a power distribution system in the low MW range for each site (one in the Northern hemisphere on La Palma, Canary Islands, and one in the Southern hemisphere in the Atacama desert, Chile), as well as the power interface definitions for the telescopes and other observatory consumers. The consultant may be expected to travel to the observatory sites.
Gavin Rowell, University of Adelaide
Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas – Universidade de Sao Paulo
Vitor de Souza, IFSC, CCNH-UFABC, IFUSP, SAIFR, UFPR, UFSCar
Andreas Reisenegger, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Elina Lindfors, Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku
Jim Hinton, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
Stefan Schlendstedt, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Julia Tjus, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Varsha Chitnis, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Masha Chernyakova, Dublin City University
John Quinn, University College Dublin
Nicola Giglietto, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Giovanni Pareschi, Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica
Masahiro Teshima, ICRR, University of Tokyo
David Berge, University of Amsterdam
Anna Lipniacka, University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology
Heidi Sandaker, University of Oslo, Department of Physics
Jacek Niemiec, H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Juan Calvo, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Yvonne Becherini, Linneuniversitetet
Teresa Montaruli, Université de Genève
Achim Vollhardt, Universität Zürich
Mimmo della Volpe, Université de Genève
Roland Walter, Université de Genève
Dr. Saran Poshyachinda, National astronomical Research Institute of Thailand
Paula Chadwick, Durham University
Garret Cotter, University of Oxford
Tim Greenshaw, University of Liverpool
Jon Lapington, University of Leicester
Bohdan Hnatyk, Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv National University
David Kieda, University of Utah
Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Institute of Technology