The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $91,903.61 firm fixed price purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation for a live cell imaging microscope system. The microscope and associated delivery, installation, training, and one-year warranty are to support the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division's precision medicine and regenerative medicine projects involving fluorescent detection of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, chimeric antigen receptor...
This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute to Nikon Instruments Inc. for one Nikon A1R HD25 confocal system with Ti2-E inverted microscope. The solicitation specifically requested this microscope model with a 25mm field of view and integrated confocal, TIRF, and focus correction microscopy capabilities. The confocal scan head is required to provide seamless scanner switching and spectral detection across the field of view...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $350,644 firm fixed price purchase order to Horiba Instruments Inc. for Raman imaging microscopes and accessories. The contract will deliver a fully automated confocal microscope with lasers ranging from 473nm to 785nm, automated polarization optics, ultra-low frequency filters, and objectives from 5x to 100x. The solicitation sought these products to establish spectroscopic measurement capabilities. Delivery is required within 150...
SPT Labtech Limited has been awarded a $321,870.94 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse to deliver a Mirrorball fluorescence cytometer, associated software, and installation services. This purchase order fulfills the requirements presented in sources sought notice 75N95019Q00143 issued by the National Center for Advancing Translational Science, which sought a commercially available microtiter plate-based laser scanning...
This federal contract award is for Luminex Corp to upgrade the existing Amnis CellStream flow cytometry system by adding a 642 nm, 150 mW laser. The $19,932.00 firm fixed price purchase order was issued by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The award has a completion date of May 25, 2021 and was not set aside for any specific business type. Luminex Corp is a manufacturer of biological testing...
This firm fixed price purchase order for $334,136.90 was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse to Nikon Instruments Inc. to upgrade an existing Nikon laser scanning confocal microscope system. The contract calls for Nikon to provide a Nikon A1R-HD25 laser scanning confocal microscope with an optional 730NM laser unit, 40X silicone oil lens, Pieso system, and Nikon motorized XY stage for installation at the agency's facility in Huntington Station, New...
Luminex Corporation was awarded a $472,981.50 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to deliver an imaging flow cytometer. As the prime contractor, Luminex will provide its proprietary multiplexing technology to support the agency's biomedical research efforts. Luminex specializes in automated analysis of multiple biomarkers from a single sample using specialized systems. This award was issued on a competitive basis...
This purchase order contract was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse to Nikon Instruments Inc. for $28,497 to deliver a high-performance scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (sCMOS) digital camera. The solicitation sought this type of camera with equivalent capabilities to the ORCA-Fusion BT Digital CMOS Camera Kit for use as part of a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope system. This system is intended to allow for the study...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded a $435,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Nikon Instruments Inc. to deliver a multi-module custom microscopy system. The system will include spinning-disk confocal microscopy, epifluorescence microscopy, total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, and a photostimulation/photobleaching unit with semi-automated image acquisition capabilities. This purchase responds to a solicitation...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Luminex Corp, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of biological testing technologies, for a small footprint benchtop flow cytometer. The $18,628.60 contract has an October 31, 2021 completion date and does not utilize a small business set-aside. The award was based on a competitive solicitation posted on August 12, 2021 with a due date of August 19, 2021. Luminex often...