[mmaimcal] Construction contract for the ALMA - OSF Technical Facilities signed

[Al Wootten]

Dear interested ALMA party,

I forward for your interest a message from Hans Rykaczewski, the European
ALMA Project Manager.  After the antenna contract, this is the largest
contract we expect ALMA to negotiate; congratulations to ESO for its
success in bringing this successfuly to signature.

Clear skies,
Al
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It is my great pleasure to announce that the contract for constructing 
the OSF Technical Facilities has been signed by ESO and its contractual 
partners, Vial y Vives Ltda, Empresa Constructora Mena y Ovall S.A., and 
the  VVMO Consortium, today at 9:30 a.m. (local time) in Santiago.

This is a major milestone which has been achieved after a long period of 
initial ideas, conceptual designs, improvements, optimization, 
contractual and legal matters etc. This process has involved the efforts 
of many persons having expertise in a broad spectrum of different 
fields. I would like to thank all people involved for their dedicated, 
and in some cases passionate, hard work to get this project so far.

Nevertheless, we are just at the beginning of the actual construction 
work. Let us all try hard and continue to work with the same commitment 
such that in the beginning of 2008 we all will enjoy working at the OSF.


Hans Rykaczewski

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European ALMA Division
European Southern Observatory || E.S.O.
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching bei München

Tel. + 49 89 32006 630
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