The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $18,000 firm fixed price call order against its Blanket Purchase Agreement for radiation pressure mirror coatings items 1 and 2 to Fivenine Optics Inc. of Boulder, Colorado. The order is for the delivery of specified coating items to NIST with performance through May 11, 2020. As the nation's measurement institute, NIST applies cutting-edge coating technologies to advance precision optics supporting its work in...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at twenty-one thousand dollars to Fivenine Optics Inc. for four ion beam sputtered mirror coating services. The award was made on September 1, 2020 under a blanket purchase agreement held by Fivenine Optics to support NIST research through the provision of specialized radiation pressure mirror coatings. As a small, custom coating house and manufacturer of quality optics,...
This federal contract award, NNX15AF27G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for the development of new broadband enhanced lithium fluoride protected aluminum mirror coatings. The $967,386.38 grant aims to raise the technology readiness level of these coatings to TRL 6, qualifying them for future space missions. The effort fulfills a priority 1...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Call contract valued at seventy-one thousand nine hundred fifty dollars ($71,950) to Fivenine Optics Inc. of Boulder, Colorado. The firm fixed price contract is for the delivery of radiation pressure mirror coatings with performance to be completed by November 11, 2021. No set-aside designation was applied to this award made under NIST's BPA vehicle to support the...
<p>Fivenine Optics Inc. was awarded a $14,000 firm fixed price call against the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for the delivery of radiation pressure mirror coatings items 3 and 5. As the prime contractor, Fivenine Optics will provide the specified coating items to NIST under BPA call order terms by April 29, 2020 for use in the agency's research programs. No set-aside designation was applied to this award.</p>
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a delivery order valued at twenty-three thousand two hundred forty dollars to Meak Solutions LLC under an unspecified contract vehicle. The delivery order requires the reclamation of existing stock of gold, palladium gold, and platinum sputter targets and spent sources collected by the Boulder Micro-fabrication Facility for deposition of thin films. The work will be performed in Boulder, Colorado by August...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $14,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Fivenine Optics Inc., doing business as Fivenine Optics, for the delivery of 14 dual coated cavity ring-down mirrors. The solicitation sought the procurement of these mirrors to support NIST research programs, with delivery required within 16 weeks to NIST's Gaithersburg, Maryland facility. The contract has a 100% small business set aside designation under NAICS code...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $63,500 firm fixed price purchase order to Lockwood Custom Optics, Inc. to deliver a large diameter schlieren mirror. The mirror will support the Material Measurement Laboratory's research efforts in fluid flow visualization for contraband detection applications. Specifically, the prime contractor will provide the mirror along with a two-year warranty, installation guidance, and compliance with safety and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $31,165 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Gigahertz-Optik, Inc. (doing business as Gigahertz Optik) for the coating of a 2.5m laboratory sphere. The order was placed under FAR 13.106-1(b) after NIST conducted market research and determined that Gigahertz-Optik was the only vendor capable of providing the proprietary 90% reflectance and fluorescence-free barium sulfate coating required. The contract...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded a $14,850 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Perkins Precision Developments, LLC, a woman-owned small business, for the provision of mirror substrates. The mirror substrates will be used for pressure measurements based on the refractive index of gas at very low pressures. This award was made under NIST Solicitation Number 1333ND24QNB680304, which was set aside for small...