Purchase Order 1333ND23PNB640176
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc. for repair services of a Spectro Arcos inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) instrument. The contract, valued at $19,952.75, was awarded on September 20, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2024. The work will be performed at NIST's facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This purchase order was issued without a...
- The U.S. government awarded a $232,224 firm fixed-price purchase order to Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc. for maintenance contracts related to nuclear inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (NU ICPMS) equipment. The contract, awarded on July 29, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of September 27, 2027, will be performed in Denver, Colorado. This modification to the existing contract ensures compliance with updated federal guidance, eliminates non-statutory sustainability...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $250,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to Bruker Scientific LLC for a Triple Mass Spectrometer modification to correct lines of accounting. The contract, awarded on September 16, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2025, supports NIST's operations at its Gaithersburg, Maryland facility. This award follows a pre-solicitation market research announcement issued in June 2025 for a Triple Quadrupole Mass...
- This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc., a subsidiary of Ametek Inc. The purpose of the $18,911.34 contract is to procure the service and repairs of three detectors on a CSDS Spectro Arcos inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) in accordance with the statement of work. The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 19,...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Hiden Analytical Inc. for $348,440 on June 14, 2022, for a breakthrough mass spectrometer instrument with detector and accessories, inclusive of installation, training, and initial warranty, under a total small business set-aside. The order exercises Option Year 1 of extended warranty and revises the payment schedule, with ultimate completion on January 26, 2026. Work is performed at the NIST Facility for Adsorbent...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $85,842 firm fixed-price purchase order to Hiden Analytical Inc. on July 28, 2025, for the delivery of a quadrupole mass spectrometer to support NIST's Chemical Sciences Division Direct Air Capture research program. The contract, designated OU63-25-NEW-240, carries an ultimate completion date of November 13, 2025, and involves no small business set-aside. The instrument must meet 15 specific technical requirements including measuring...
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $222,775 firm fixed price purchase order to Hiden Analytical Inc. of Peterborough, New Hampshire for the purchase of HPR-20 R&D mass spectrometers. NIST supports scientific and technical research and works to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. This contract will provide Hiden Analytical's high performance research mass spectrometers to support NIST's research and development...
- This is a $1,272,949.60 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Thermo Electron North America LLC for the purchase of a Thermo Scientific NEOMA Multicollector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (HR-MC-ICP-MS) system. The contract includes a one-year base warranty and three optional one-year extended warranty periods. This is a brand name only procurement conducted under simplified acquisition procedures, as NIST requires...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $13,700.75 firm fixed price purchase order to Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc. for repair of a SPECTRO ARCOS ICP-OES instrument. The place of performance is the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. No set-aside designation was used for this award to support maintenance and calibration of specialized analytical equipment used in NIST's chemical metrology programs. As a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of analytical...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $112,345 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Pembroke Instruments, LLC on August 29, 2024, for the procurement and delivery of a vacuum ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet (VUV+EUV) spectrometer system. The award was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 334516 and represents the lowest-priced, technically acceptable response to NIST's solicitation for equipment to support the agency's CHIPS Research & Development...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $420,390 firm fixed-price purchase order to Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc. on May 2, 2023, for the upgrade of an existing Nu Plasma 2 multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) instrument to the next-generation Nu Plasma 3 model. The upgrade will enhance the capabilities of NIST's Inorganic Chemical Metrology Group, improving detection sensitivity and isotope ratio measurement precision for critical research applications. This sole-source procurement was conducted without set-aside designation, as Nu Instruments possesses the specialized expertise required for servicing and supporting its proprietary mass spectrometer technology. The contract supports NIST's elemental isotopic reference material production, natural matrix standard reference materials development for climate research, postdoctoral training, and environmental and food security research programs involving isotopic measurements. Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc., a subsidiary of Ametek Inc. headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, is a manufacturer of advanced analytical instruments specializing in inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers, X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, and multi-collector mass spectrometers. The contract carries an ultimate completion date of September 7, 2027, with the period of performance extended due to prior government funding lapses. The work will be performed in Wilmington, Massachusetts, where the contractor maintains its primary operations and technical expertise for instrument upgrades and support services.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source: Upgrade of NIST Multi-collector ICP-MS Instrument | 1333ND23QNB640158 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Special Notice 1/1 | 2/27/23, 12:48 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P26003 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $0 | 12/2/25 | |
| P25002 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $0 | 9/2/25 | |
| P24001 | Exercise an Option | $28.7k | 8/2/24 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $334.3k | 5/2/23 |