# MPEX Insulating and Heating Blankets

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/pr348918

- Solicitation number: PR348918
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of Energy
- Contracting office: ORNL Ut-Battelle LLC-DOE Contractor (899042)
- NAICS: 333414 Heating Equipment (except Warm Air Furnaces) Manufacturing
- Product or service code: 5970 Electrical Insulators and Insulating Materials
- Place of performance: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- County: Anderson County (FIPS 47001). https://abierto.us/counties/anderson-county-tn-47001
- City: Oak Ridge. https://abierto.us/cities/oak-ridge-tn-4755120
- First posted: April 1, 2025
- Last posted: April 1, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/974f49d994984589b1c663abe8ec6b7f/view

## Description

The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX), a superconducting magnet, steady-state device, is being built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to address the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor. This device, as designed, will have the unique feature of being able to conduct accelerated lifetime tests of plasma-facing components, including those that have experienced neutron damage. The vacuum vessels create the vacuum barrier to generate and contain the plasma. The vacuum vessels require to be baked out. To bake out the vacuum vessels, insulating and heating blankets are required.

## Publications

- April 1, 2025: Solicitation, due April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 32d3c184e5d74523ad860a08ed9c46f7. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/32d3c184e5d74523ad860a08ed9c46f7/view
- April 1, 2025: Solicitation, due April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 974f49d994984589b1c663abe8ec6b7f. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/974f49d994984589b1c663abe8ec6b7f/view

## Points of contact

- Genna Pence, pencegl@ornl.gov, 865-341-4644
- Misty Magill, magillm@ornl.gov, 865-341-1872

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