The Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced auctions to supply unique instruments for studying the Sun worth 6 billion rubles under the National Heliogeophysical Complex of the Russian Academy of Sciences project. It concerns creating a radar system in Irkutsk Region and buying a radioheliograph for Buryatia, equipment that will become part of a large scientific infrastructure. The article also explains how the funds are allocated and where the new installations are planned to be placed.
The Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences has announced auctions for the supply of unique instruments for studying the Sun worth 6 billion rubles as part of the enlarged investment project “National Heliogeophysical Complex of the Russian Academy of Sciences.”At the end of 2014, data appeared on the Russian government website about the allocation of 7 billion rubles for the construction of unique instruments for studying the Sun in the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Buryatia. It was planned to create a radar system in the Irkutsk Region and to install a radioheliograph, a solar telescope-coronagraph, and optical instruments in Buryatia.
The first auction announced the search for contractors to install a radar system in the Kharkita area of the Olkhonsky District for 4.1 billion rubles. The source of funding is the federal budget. The completion deadline for the work is December 2017.
In the second auction, the institute will purchase a radioheliograph for almost 2 billion rubles to install it at the institute’s radio astrophysical observatory in the Badary tract of the Tunkinsky District of the Republic of Buryatia.
According to the auction documentation, in accordance with the law on the contract system, public hearings were announced on the need for purchases for which no applications were submitted.