Purchase Order 1333ND19PNB680594

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $46,934.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Allen Scientific Glass Inc., a small business manufacturer, to provide scientific glass blowing services to fabricate a custom borosilicate vacuum extraction line. This line will be used by NIST's Chemical Sciences Division to support ocean carbon metrology and greenhouse gas metrology. The vacuum line is modeled after a system currently used at the Scripps Institution of...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $27,667 firm fixed price purchase order to United Mineral & Chemical Corp. for the delivery of a silicon sublimation source. The solicitation sought a source equipped with an intrinsic silicon filament and preheating mechanisms to enable sublimation at deposition rates below 2 Angstroms per minute. It was also to include high purity single crystal silicon shields, a water-cooled shroud, shutter, compatibility...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Montana Instruments Corporation, a small business manufacturer of cryogenic equipment, to provide a 4K cryogen-free optical cryostat system. The $158,435 contract supports NIST's Physical Measurement Lab and the Nanofabrication and Measurement Group's research activities in areas such as quantum physics and materials science. The system will be used for cryogenic optical microscopy and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $93,940 firm fixed-price purchase order to Ta Instruments - Waters LLC on August 4, 2025, for the procurement, delivery, installation, and training associated with a heating microscope dilatometer. This equipment will support NIST's metals-based additive manufacturing research at its Gaithersburg, Maryland campus, specifically enabling the measurement of part shrinkage and distortion during the sintering process. The dilatometer...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $29.3K purchase order to Raicol Crystals LTD., an Israeli manufacturer, for the delivery of six periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) crystals with anti-reflection coatings optimized for quantum optics research. The contract, OU68-25-NEW-096, was awarded on September 16, 2025, with a completion deadline of January 16, 2026, and was procured under Simplified Acquisition Procedures using a Lowest Price Technically...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $95,981 firm fixed-price purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Boulder, Colorado, for the development and delivery of a high-finesse, dual-wavelength reference cavity (HDRC) system. The contract, OU68-25-NEW-074, was awarded on July 3, 2025, with a completion deadline of October 10, 2025, and carries no set-aside designation. The specialized optical system is intended for NIST's...

This federal contract award is for the provision of an optical table and leg kit to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use in semiconductor research at its Materials Measurement Laboratory. The $12,580.50 firm fixed-price contract was awarded to Technical Manufacturing Corp (TMC), a subsidiary of Ametek Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The optical table must meet...

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $24,100 to Fivenine Optics Inc. to deliver two sets of high reflectivity mirrors. The mirrors will support NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory Chemical Sciences Division Optical Measurements group, which conducts cavity ringdown spectroscopy and photoacoustic spectroscopy to produce spectral data on gases including water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane....

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at ten thousand one hundred six dollars to Malvern Panalytical Inc. to replace and install a CLAISSE M4 GLASS BEAD MAKER BURNER SYSTEM. Performance will occur at the agency's facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland and be completed by June 21, 2024. As a foreign-owned, for-profit organization specializing in analytical instrumentation, Malvern Panalytical Inc. will...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Stable Laser Systems Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Boulder, Colorado. The $94,367.00 contract is for the delivery of a high-finesse optical reference cavity that will operate simultaneously at three wavelengths (1560 nm, 1060 nm, and 780 nm) with a cavity finesse exceeding 150,000 in each wavelength region. This specialized laboratory equipment will support NIST's...