The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $72,327.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Horiba Instruments Incorporated, a for-profit provider of scientific instrumentation, for four Horiba LEM Camera G50 units. This brand name-only procurement was to replace failed equipment used in laser processing tools at NIST's Boulder Microfabrication Facility. The award, which did not have a set-aside designation, requires delivery within 20 weeks to the...
Horiba Instruments Inc. has been awarded a $121,380 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide a plane grating. As a foreign owned, for-profit manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, Horiba Instruments will deliver the requested product to NIST's facility in Upton, New York by December 31, 2021. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement issued directly by NIST, a non-Department of Defense agency within the Department...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $229,630.00 to Klar Scientific, Inc. for a UV spectroscopic microscope system for photoluminescence imaging. The system must include two UV laser sources, a spectrometer, high and low magnification objectives, an XY scanning stage, and automated control and data analysis software. This requirement was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, awarded a $187,124.70 firm fixed price purchase order to Lyncee TEC SA of Switzerland for the delivery of a strobe holographic microscope. The contract runs from August 14, 2023 through November 7, 2023 and calls for Lyncee TEC SA to provide the specified microscope equipment to NIST's laboratories. As the nation's measurement standards laboratory, NIST conducts research in areas...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $327,878.87 firm fixed price purchase order to Lyncee TEC SA, a manufacturer based in Switzerland, to deliver a digital holographic microscope. The microscope will support NIST's regenerative medicine measurements program. No set-aside was used for this contract, which was awarded through a competitive solicitation for a digital holographic microscope to measure cell morphology and viability. Lyncee TEC SA will provide the microscope...
The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory awarded a $250,910 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Horiba Instruments Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer, to provide a confocal Raman microscope system with 532 nm, 633 nm, and 785 nm laser excitation sources. The contract was awarded on September 30, 2019, with a completion date of March 31, 2022. The microscope system is intended to support research activities and must meet detailed technical specifications outlined...
This is a $99,447.30 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Hitech Instruments Inc., a small business, for the provision of an optical microscope for metallography. The contract was awarded under a total small business set-aside solicitation and will support scientific research and technical analysis across various federal agencies. Hitech Instruments Inc. is an experienced supplier of advanced...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $324,950 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Daylight Solutions Inc., a small business subsidiary of the Italian aircraft manufacturer Leonardo SPA, for the purchase of a quantum cascade laser infrared microscope. The microscope will support new biomolecular analysis measurement techniques at NIST's Gaithersburg, Maryland facility. This procurement was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 334516 for analytical...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $571,192 firm fixed price purchase order to Coherent Inc. to provide an upgrade to NIST's existing Materials Microscopy Laser Systems. The solicitation sought increased spectral coverage of single frequency continuous wave lasers from 355nm to 632nm and ultrafast, high power, tunable lasers of 150fs at 900nm, over 1000mW at 900nm, and tunable from 315nm to 2600nm. As the potential incumbent able to fulfill the upgrade requirements...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to LS Instruments AG, a for-profit manufacturer of goods, in the amount of $191,056.75. The contract is for a 3D Cross-Correlation Laser Light Scattering System to be used by NIST's Materials Science and Engineering Division for research on polymer solutions, networks, and gels. This specialized equipment allows for the characterization of turbid,...