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Number 8 Building 53, Denver Federal Center August 1, 1957 Denver, Colorado
The following announcements of major equipment and machinery requirements are subject to revision. Please address the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Engi-neer to request advertising notices, invitations, bid forms, or other information, referring to the title and number of the item as described in this issue. Asterisks indicate items set aside for Small Business (Section 214, Small Business Act of 1953, amended 15 U.S. C. 643).
BID CALLS EXPECTED IN AU
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GATES
Buffalo Bill Dam (8-1)
SEOSEONE PROJECT, Wyoming. Advertising notice about August 15.
Description: Four 4- by 5-foot high-pressure gates. Estimated weight: 182, 000 pounds. Delivery date: February 1958.
CRANE
Fremont Canyon Powerplant (8-2)
Description: One 100-ton traveling crane. Delivery date: November 19 58.
CONTROL SYSTEM Vaquero Dam
(8-3)
MISSOURI RIVER BASIN PROJECT, Wyo-ming. Advertising notice about August 30.
Estimated weight 150, 000 pounds.
SANTA MARIA PROJECT, California. Advertising notice about August 26.
Description: Hydraulic controls for four 7 - by 12-foot outlet gates consisting of an oil tank, piping, a control cabinet witi1 an electric-motor-driven oil pump,
an auxiliary gasoline-engine-driven oil pump, and gate position indica-tors. Estimated weight: 12, 000 pounds.
Bureau of Reclamation PUMPING UNITS
Radar Pumping Plant (8-4)
Advance Equipment Bulletin, August 1, 1957 COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT, Washington. Advertising notice about August 30.
Description: Five motor-driven, horizontal, centrifugal-type pumping units, three units each with a capacity of 37 cfs at a total head of 275 feet and two units each with a capacity of 17 .5 cfs at a total head of 119 feet.
Delivery date: December 1958. GENERATORS
Fremont Canyon Powerplant (8-5)
MISSOURI RIVER BASIN PROJECT, Wyo-ming. Advertising notice about August 15. Description: Two 25, 263-kva, 0. 95-power factor, 11, 500-volt, 257-rpm,
vertical-shaft, hydraulic-driven, indoor type, synchronous generators. Delivery date: September 1959.
CONTROL BOARD and SUPERVISORY EQUIPMENT
Green Springs Powerplant (8-6)
ROGUE RIVER BASIN PROJECT, Oregon. Advertising notice about August 30.
Description: One control board and supervisory equipment. Delivery date: November 1958.
BID CALLS EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER
GATE (8-7) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. One 14- by 18-foot fixed-wheel gate for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant. Estimated weight: 112, 000 pounds.
BUTTERFLY VALVES (8-8) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. Two 144-inch butterfly valves for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant. Estimated weight: 270, 000 pounds. HOIST, BEAM and STEMS (8-9) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. One 14- by 18-foot fixed-wheel gate hoist, beam and stem for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant. Es-timated weight: 35, 000 pounds.
BULKHEAD (8-10) - Central Valley Project, California. One 16-foot-diameter,' spher-ical bulkhead complete with frame and anchor bolts for Trinity Dam. Estimated weight: 120, 000 pounds.
TRANSFORMERS (8-11) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. Six 7, 400/9, 250-kva, OA/FA, ll.2-115/66.4-kv, single-phase power transformers for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant.
Bureau of Reclamation Advance Equipment Bulletin, August 1. 1957
TRANSFORMER (8-12) - Missouri River Basin Project, South Dakota. One 8, 000-kva, 110 to 41. 8-kv, 3-phase power transformer, with load-tap-changing to regulate the low voltage output, for the Summit Substation.
MOTOR CONTROL EQUIPMENT (8-13) - Ventura River Project, California, Three
2, 400-volt and two 440-volt motor control boards for controlling synchronous motors for Ventura Avenue Pumping Plants Nos. 1 and 2, Ojai Valley, Upper Ojai and Rincon Pumping Plants.
MOTOR CONTROL EQUIPMENT (!3-14) - Gila Project, Arizona. One 4, 160-volt motor control switchgear assembly for control of 2, 250-hp synchronous motor for the Yuma-Mesa Pumping Plant.
SWITCHGEAR (8-15) - Colorado-Big Thompson Project, Colorado. One 4, 160-volt switchgear assembly for the control of 4, 500-kva generator for the Big Thompson Power-plant.
INVITATIONS RECENTLY ISSUED
The following invitations for equipment and machinery have been issued·~~~~~~~~
by the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Engineer since the July 1, 1957, Advance Equipment Bulletin. They are listed by the number under which the item was last reported in the Bulletin.
*GATE (7-1) - Collbran Project, Colorado, One 3-foot 6-inch by 3-foot 6-inch and two 2-foot 3-inch by 2-foot 3-inch high-pressure gate valves; one 49, 000-pound and two 31, 000-pound hydraulic hoists; four transitions; one gate hanger; and eyebolts for outlet works at Vega Dam. Bid opening August 20. Invitation No. DS-4942.
CHLORINATION EQUIPMENT (7-6) - Ventura River Project, California, Four lots of chlorination equipment for Casitas No. 1, Casitas No. 2, Matilija No. 2, and Rincon chlorination stations. Bid opening August 22, Invitation No. DS-4939.
