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Bailey Refrigeration Goes

On Site For Work Aboard

Navy Aircraft Carrier

Bailey Refrigeration Company re- cently completed a top-to-bottom cleaning and charging of the U.S.

Navy aircraft carrier Theodore Roo- sevelt's after ship's stores refrigera- tion system. The 81,600-ton carrier is currently nearing completion at

Newport News Shipbuilding in Vir- ginia.

The tune-up included purging all lines to remove air and moisture, charging the system with refriger- ant, and testing for competency.

Bailey's 12-man crew completed the complex task in three weeks, meet- ing the Navy's and the yard's need for a tight completion schedule.

Once awarded the job, Bailey re- quired less than 24 hours to assem- ble a team of highly qualified tech- nicians and service engineers and deliver necessary equipment to the job site.

Other current military assign- ments for the company include work on the USS Nimitz, a sister ship of the Roosevelt, and other Navy and

Army craft. Bailey represents most major refrigeration and air condi- tioning manufacturers, and services all makes and models. Custom de- sign of refrigeration and air condi- tioning is another company special- ty.

For free technical literature de- scribing Bailey's full range of ser- vices and equipment,

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NAVSEA Awards AT&T $9.7-Million Modification

For Sonar Equipment

AT&T Technologies Incorpo- rated, Federal Systems Divisions,

Greensboro, N.C., is being awarded a $9,672,500 modification to a pre- viously awarded fixed-price-incen- tive contract for AN/BQR-15 spe- cial project 9080 sonar equipment for Poseidon and Trident subma- rines. Work will be performed in

Burlington, N.C., and is expected to be completed in June 1987. The

Naval Sea Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-86-C-6154).

Navy Awards $73.7-Million Crane

Contract To Craft Machine —Literature Available

The Northern Division of the

Naval Facilities Engineering Com- mand (NAVFAC), headquartered at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, has awarded a $73.7-million con- tract for the multi-year procure- ment of 23 portal cranes to Craft

Machine Works, Inc., a small busi- ness firm in Hampton, Va.

The contract is the largest small business set-aside ever awarded by

NAVFAC's Northern Division and the largest ever made following a successful appeal by SBA to the

Secretary of the Navy.

The precedent-setting award was the direct result of action by SBA's

Procurement Center Representative

Joseph E. May, who at the time was stationed at the Philadelphia

Naval Shipyard. Mr. May has since been named Chief of Prime Con- tracts, Philadelphia Regional office.

Craft Machine Works, Inc., was chosen from 18 firms that submitted technical proposals and 13 compa- nies selected for actual bidding on the firm, fixed-price production contract which includes fabrication and installation.

Eighteen of the 60-ton cranes will go to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in

Portsmouth, Va., three to the Phila- delphia Naval Shipyard, one to the

Naval Submarine Base at King's

Bay, Ga., and one to the Polaris

Atlantic Missile Facility,

Charleston, S.C. The cranes will be delivered over a five-year period.

The cranes are of the rail- mounted, self-powered portal type.

They will revolve on a rotating bear- ing. Capacity will be 60 tons at a 90-foot radius. All but one of the cranes will replace existing equip- ment.

For full information and free de- tailed literature on Craft Machine products,

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