The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Daylight Solutions Inc. to provide two separate systems of high-power tunable mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). This $201,746.04 contract supports NIST's CHIPS project on fast IR metrology of cure kinetics for advanced packaging. Daylight Solutions Inc. is a manufacturer of mid-infrared laser systems and components, and operates as a division of the Italian aerospace and defense company Leonardo SPA. The contract has a completion date of December 22, 2024 and was awarded on September 12, 2024 through a full and open competition with no set-aside designation.