The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $16,045 firm fixed price purchase order to Advr, Inc. to deliver an entangled photon source. As part of its mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness, NIST supports research in quantum information science and precision measurement. This award will provide Advr the opportunity to supply NIST with an entangled photon source to support the agency's ongoing research efforts in these...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order valued at one hundred fifty-two thousand one hundred dollars ($152,100) to Nucrypt LLC located in Park Ridge, Illinois. The award is to procure an Entangled Photon Source and two polarization state analyzers as specified in the original special notice, with no set-aside designation utilized. The equipment will support NIST's collaboration with other government agencies through...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, awarded a $146,732 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Izum Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for quantum networking metrology support, involving research, engineering, design, development, testing, and metrology services. This work is being performed on-site at NIST facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and supports NIST's...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order for $10,990 to Swabian Instruments GMBH of Almanya. The contract is for a single item: a time tagging unit for single photon detection. No set-aside provisions or subcontractors were specified. NIST supports the U.S. technology industry through research, standards development, and measurement services, and this purchase will provide equipment to enable NIST's work in...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $145,538.11 firm-fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of advanced photonics equipment. The contract requires the delivery of one broadband, high-power supercontinuum light source, one wide bandwidth tunable filter with single-mode fiber output, and one multiline, narrow bandwidth, fast switching tunable filter with single-mode fiber output. This...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, has awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Picoquant Photonics North America Inc., a small business, for the procurement of a Pulsed-Diode Laser System with Sepia II Software. The contract, valued at $48,817.00, has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2024. This sole-source award was made without a set-aside designation, as NIST determined Picoquant to be the...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order of $44,160 to Picoquant Photonics North America Inc. to provide one pulsed-diode laser system with Sepia II software. The original solicitation sought this proprietary equipment from Picoquant to ensure compatibility with an existing laser and software used by NIST for research experiments in quantum networking, optical time-domain reflectometry, and related measurement science...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order for $103,340.00 to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned manufacturer of cryogenic systems and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. This contract is for the delivery of a "High-Efficiency Low Dark-Count Single Photon Detection System" to support NIST's Quantum Measurement Division's research on quantum-based measurement methods, including the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $412,600.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit Subchapter S corporation that manufactures cryogenic systems and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. The contract is for time-resolved emission microscopy cryostats, which support NIST's metrology research programs. Photon Spot Inc. has established itself as a key supplier of high-precision, low-temperature...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Advr, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Bozeman, Montana. The contract, valued at $16,045.00, is for the delivery of a 1560NM Entangled Photon Source (EPS). Advr, Inc. is a provider of advanced optical components and devices, specializing in areas such as quantum information science, communications, and sensing. The company has a...