Purchase Order 1333ND19PNB680929

This is a $132,005 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Formfactor, Inc. to provide on-wafer probing devices from 500 GHz to 1100 GHz. The order is for eight WR1.5 on-wafer probes, with four operating between 500-750 GHz and four operating between 750-1100 GHz. The probes must meet requirements related to overtravel, bias tee, pitch, insertion loss, and return loss. The award was made on a full and open...

This is a $240,000.00 firm-fixed-price Definitive Contract awarded to Teraprobes Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for a SBIR Phase I research and development effort to develop a non-contact, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) probe station capable of transmitting and receiving signals to and from on-wafer devices without physical contact, operating at frequencies...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $178,228.40 firm fixed price purchase order to Formfactor, Inc. to provide a semi-automated probe station for characterizing CMOS devices designed for biophysical measurements. The probe station must be capable of performing DC and low-frequency measurements up to 10 MHz, including current vs. voltage (IV) and capacitance vs. voltage (CV) measurements. Key requirements include a motorized stage, machine vision, scripting, and...

This is a firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Formfactor Beaverton, Inc., doing business as Cascade Microtech, for the provision of on-wafer probes. The total ceiling value of the contract is $77,877.50, with a completion date of September 20, 2020. The original solicitation was a sources sought notice seeking information from vendors capable of providing specialized on-wafer probes for use in custom on-wafer probe...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a Defense agency, to Formfactor Beaverton, Inc. (doing business as Cascade Microtech), a manufacturer of test and measurement equipment and solutions for the semiconductor industry. The $130,881.61 contract is for the delivery of a manual probe station. The award was not set aside and was likely competed openly. As a prime contractor, Formfactor Beaverton has provided probe cards, positioners, wafer...

This is a $235,000 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Keysight Technologies Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of 2.4 mm microcalorimeter standards. The purchase order includes 4 WR1.5 on-wafer probes operating between 500-750 GHz and 4 WR1.5 on-wafer probes operating between 750-1100 GHz. This is an open market acquisition with no set-aside designation. The microcalorimeter standards and...

This is a $558,362.46 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Formfactor, Inc. to provide a fully autonomous wafer probing system up to 110 GHz for NIST's microwave materials lab. The award supports NIST's CHIPS program to develop and disseminate measurement best practices. The contract includes Wincal software, on-wafer and DC probes, a capacitor sensor, an autoprober system, installation, training, and a 3-year warranty and...

This is a $50,920 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency under the Department of Commerce, to G G B Industries, Inc. for the purchase of various waveguide probes. The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 30, 2024. G G B Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of high-quality microwave probes, high impedance probes, and probe cards for testing semiconductor devices and circuits. They have also...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $361,584.75 firm fixed price purchase order to Semiprobe, Inc. for the purchase of a magnetic probe station. The contract is being awarded non-competitively based on a special notice issued by NIST announcing their intent to sole source the procurement due to technical requirements only met by Semiprobe's SA-8 200mm prober. The notice specified requirements for wafer stage motion and placement accuracy, magnet...

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $26,480 purchase order to Formfactor, Inc. for on-wafer probes. Formfactor will deliver the probes to its Hillsboro, Oregon location under a firm fixed price contract running from September 15, 2023 through October 12, 2023. NIST supports measurement science and standards that drive technological innovation and enable fair and open markets. This award for probes will assist NIST in advancing...