The U.S. Energy Department has issued its final notice to organizations and institutions that wish to bid on the contract to operate the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a particle-physics facility west of Chicago that has been run since its opening, in the 1960s, by the Universities Research Association, a consortium of 90 research universities in the United States and three other countries. The lab, known as Fermilab, has been managed through a partnership of the association and the University of Chicago, and the partnership plans to seek the new contract as well. According to the notice, groups planning to bid on the contract must notify the department of their intentions by July 24 and submit their proposals by August 24.
July 18, 2006
Energy Department Seeks Final Bidders for Contract to Run Fermilab
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