The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to M Squared Lasers Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the provision of a tunable, single-frequency titanium:sapphire (Ti:sapphire) laser system. The laser system is capable of high-power output (greater than 1 watt) across two wavelength ranges, from 700 nanometers to 1,000 nanometers and from 350 nanometers to 500 nanometers, with an additional single frequency...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $157,100 firm fixed price purchase order to Newport Corp., doing business as Newport, for the delivery of three green laser systems. Per the solicitation, NIST requires the laser systems to support its work and will utilize them at its Gaithersburg, Maryland facility. MKS Instruments Inc. is the parent company of Newport, which will perform the work under the contract from its location in Thailand. The period...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to Newport Corp, a leading manufacturer of advanced laser and optics products. The contract is for the delivery of a tunable picosecond laser, with a ceiling value of $129,144.00 and a completion date of November 28, 2022. Newport Corp, a subsidiary of MKS Instruments Inc., has extensive experience providing specialized equipment and services to...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to M Squared Lasers Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The award, valued at $99,500.00, is for the purchase of one (1) TI:SAPPHIRE laser system. The laser system will be delivered to NIST's location in Boston, Massachusetts by the ultimate completion date of October 13, 2023. M Squared Lasers Inc. is a...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $157,932.80 purchase order contract to M Squared Lasers Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide one (1) frequency doubled titanium-sapphire laser, one (1) pump laser, and one (1) doubling cavity. This sole source award was made to acquire the specialized laser system required for NIST's Physical Measurements Laboratory to support a project developing a magnesium fluoride molecule...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, awarded a $68,596.78 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Newport Corp, a subsidiary of MKS Instruments Inc., for the delivery of one external cavity diode laser (ECDL) operating at 2000 nm. This ECDL will support NIST's Isotopic Composition and Precision Molecular Spectroscopy project, which aims to link spectroscopic measurements of greenhouse gases and other planetary atmospheric...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to M Squared Lasers Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the provision of a TI SAPPHIRE LASER, with a potential value of $245,000.00. The award was made under a solicitation for a "Ti: Sapphire Laser per the minimum requirements contained in the attached combined synopsis/solicitation", with no set-aside used. The contract has a completion...
This is a $43,676.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, to Coherent NA, Inc. for the delivery of a 10-Watt diode-pumped, solid state 532nm continuous-wave laser. The original solicitation was issued as a commercial item acquisition with a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) evaluation approach. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and both large...
This $258,700.00 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Coherent Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods. The contract is for a sapphire modelocked laser pumped by a high power green pump laser, followed by an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) system, to be used for spectroscopy of ultrafast materials, semiconductor nanostructures, and time resolved measurements of novel superconducting materials. No...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $571,192 firm fixed price purchase order to Coherent Inc. to provide an upgrade to NIST's existing Materials Microscopy Laser Systems. The solicitation sought increased spectral coverage of single frequency continuous wave lasers from 355nm to 632nm and ultrafast, high power, tunable lasers of 150fs at 900nm, over 1000mW at 900nm, and tunable from 315nm to 2600nm. As the potential incumbent able to fulfill the upgrade requirements...