NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $25,075 firm fixed price purchase order to Quantar Technology Inc., a California-based manufacturer of advanced scientific instrumentation. The contract is for a multiscaler/time digitizer with four inputs and 100 picosecond time resolution, along with associated software, to support data analysis for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's instrument sensor applications. This was a total small business set-aside contract, reflecting Quantar Technology Inc.'s...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $58,302 firm-fixed-price purchase order to QM Technologies Inc., a for-profit small business, for an Arbitrary Waveform Generator. The contract has a period of performance through October 2024. This award was made under a previous NIST sources sought solicitation that sought information from both large and small businesses capable of providing a low-cost, high-performance arbitrary waveform generator for potential use in quantum...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Qdevil Inc., a for-profit organization, for the delivery of a 48-channel digital-to-analog converter (DAC) system to bias 3,000 cryogenic sensors in an x-ray spectrometer. The total ceiling value of the contract is $82,750.00, and the ultimate completion date is April 15, 2022. This award was made under a pre-solicitation opportunity that was not set aside for any particular business...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $96,800 firm fixed-price purchase order to Intermodulation Products AB, a for-profit manufacturer of quantum computing technology. The contract, awarded on August 12, 2024, is for a Quantum Circuit Control & Readout Instrument capable of simultaneously generating and demodulating over 100 frequencies, providing dispersive measurement and synchronous control of superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers. This award is...
This firm fixed price purchase order for $33,416.61 was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology to Swabian Instruments GMBH of Almanya, Germany. The award is to procure three TimeTagger20 time tagging units with 8 channel streaming time tagging system and 34 picosecond resolution for single photon counting, along with a full software package. This delivery supports the National Institute of Standards and Technology's research to develop a...
This is a sole-source, firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Swabian Instruments USA Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit company, for the procurement of one TimeTaggerX unit, a specialized time tagging device used for single photon counting. The $28,947.35 award supports NIST's research efforts in developing a measurement test suite for quantum network component and protocol testing, verification, and characterization. The agency...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Quantum Design, Inc. for the delivery of a superconducting nanowire detector system. The $161,850.00 contract was set aside for small businesses. Quantum Design is a manufacturer of automated materials characterization equipment, including cryogenic magnetometers, photon detection systems, and other measurement instrumentation, which it has previously provided to...
This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Quantum Design, Inc. for the upgrade of a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) Magnetometer. The contract has a ceiling value of $224,900.00 and a completion date of May 31, 2026. It was not set aside for any specific business category. The contract was derived from a sources sought notice posted by NIST seeking vendors capable of providing a...
This firm fixed-price purchase order, awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is for Quantum Design, Inc. to provide a reqliquefier upgrade to a Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) owned by NIST. The total potential value of the contract is $126,016.00, and the period of performance runs through October 31, 2023. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Quantum Design, Inc. is a private corporation that specializes...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $76,880 purchase order to Quantum Design, Inc. of San Diego, California to deliver a fiber optic sample holder. As part of its mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness, NIST conducts research and sets standards in measurement science, materials characterization, and other laboratory technologies. This firm fixed price contract will provide NIST with specialized equipment to...