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 Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $39,698.60 firm fixed price purchase order to Lyncee TEC SA for a four year extended warranty on a holographic microscope. The contract will provide an additional four years of warranty coverage beyond the standard period for the holographic microscope, enabling NIST to continue critical measurement and standards work at its Gaithersburg, Maryland facility through August 2027. No subcontractors or set...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Nikon Instruments Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit subsidiary of Nikon Corporation, for the delivery of a particle manipulation microscope system, including installation, training, 1-year warranty, and an operations and maintenance manual. The total contract value is $61,054.02, and the ultimate completion date is September 28, 2022. This award is not set aside for any socioeconomic...
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...
This federal contract award was made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Nanoandmore USA, Inc. for the procurement of a digital microscope. The contract has a ceiling value of $309,083.00 and is a firm fixed price purchase order with a period of performance ending on July 14, 2015. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Based on the description, the digital microscope is intended for use by NIST's Engineering Laboratory for other...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency under the Department of Commerce, has awarded a $19,181 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Pi Physik Instrumente LP, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of precision motion control and positioning systems. The contract is for the delivery of a two-axes microscope transition stage to support fluorescence microscopy research at NIST. This contract was awarded under a full and open competition with no small...
Hitech Instruments Inc. was awarded a $72,484.22 firm-fixed-price purchase order as a total small business set-aside by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award will deliver one Zeiss Axio Zoom V16 apochromatic stereoscope to support the Materials and Structural Systems Division's studies of infrastructure materials at macroscopic scales, complementing other microscopes. The stereoscope procurement aligns with the stated requirements in the January...
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Cytosurge AG, a Switzerland-based manufacturer, for a single cell injection microscope system. The $673,900.95 contract supports NIST's standards development efforts for regenerative medicine through precision mammalian cell engineering and clonal cell line development. The microscope system must enable automated single cell injection, isolation, and monitoring capabilities with...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $334,986.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Tescan USA Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Czech scanning electron microscope manufacturer Tescan ORSAY HOLDING. The contract is to incorporate in-situ scanning electron microscope (SEM) capabilities into the ultra-high vacuum (UHV) analysis chamber of an existing CAMECA LEAP3000X-SI atom probe tomograph for real-time specimen shape imaging and sample and...
<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $1,606,057.50 firm fixed-price purchase order to Nanonics Imaging LTD, a for-profit manufacturer, to provide a CROVIEW MP MULTIPROBE CHAMBER, associated parts, and maintenance services. The contract has a period of performance ending on September 22, 2018, and was awarded on September 24, 2013. This award does not indicate the use of a set-aside program.</p>