Purchase Order 1333ND25PNB680509
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $96,800 firm fixed-price purchase order to Intermodulation Products AB, a for-profit manufacturer of quantum computing technology. The contract, awarded on August 12, 2024, is for a Quantum Circuit Control & Readout Instrument capable of simultaneously generating and demodulating over 100 frequencies, providing dispersive measurement and synchronous control of superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers. This award is...
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order to Qdevil APS, a subsidiary of Quantum Machines, to provide Printed Circuit Board (PCB) systems. The contract has a potential value of $29,720.00 and a completion date of February 28, 2020. The award was not set aside for any specific business category. The PCB systems are likely to support research and testing in quantum electronics and quantum computing conducted by...
- This federal contract award, with an ID of 1333ND25PNB770175, was issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Quantum Computing Inc. (Quantum) for the procurement of fabricated Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Photonic Chips. The $69,500.00 firm fixed-price purchase order supports NIST's research in quantum communications and networking using the TFLN platform. The 10-month contract requires Quantum to deliver the fabricated photonic chips within two weeks of...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $58,302 firm-fixed-price purchase order to QM Technologies Inc., a for-profit small business, for an Arbitrary Waveform Generator. The contract has a period of performance through October 2024. This award was made under a previous NIST sources sought solicitation that sought information from both large and small businesses capable of providing a low-cost, high-performance arbitrary waveform generator for potential use in quantum...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to QM Technologies Inc., a small business based in Salt Lake City, Utah, for two quantum control and measurement electronic systems. The $127,893 contract supports NIST's quantum research and development efforts, with the systems required to be delivered within 90 days to NIST's facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The procurement was an unrestricted competition under NAICS code 334513, with no...
- The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $18,600 firm fixed-price purchase order to Kijero, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Morgan Hill, California. The contract is for the procurement of one RFSoC ZCU216 Evaluation Kit, which is compatible with NIST's open-source QICK software and will be used for complex qubit and resonator measurements at ultra-low temperatures. The contract has a period of performance through September 30, 2025,...
- This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Quantum Design, Inc. for the upgrade of a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) Magnetometer. The contract has a ceiling value of $224,900.00 and a completion date of May 31, 2026. It was not set aside for any specific business category. The contract was derived from a sources sought notice posted by NIST seeking vendors capable of providing a...
- This firm fixed-price purchase order, awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is for Quantum Design, Inc. to provide a reqliquefier upgrade to a Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) owned by NIST. The total potential value of the contract is $126,016.00, and the period of performance runs through October 31, 2023. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Quantum Design, Inc. is a private corporation that specializes...
- Qubitekk, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed price purchase order as a prime contractor by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to deliver a flexible near-infrared bi-photon source for $14,415. As a small manufacturer of quantum networking components and systems specializing in narrow-spectrum two-photon sources and bi-photon sources, Qubitekk will provide the customized photon source to support NIST's quantum computing and communications research...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $20,345 firm fixed-price purchase order to New TECH Solutions, Inc. for external hardware compatible with ZCU-216 RFSoC (Radio Frequency System-on-Chip) boards. The procurement was initiated through a pre-solicitation market research notice posted in July 2025, seeking vendors capable of supplying daughter boards and enclosures with specific technical specifications including output channels ranging from DC to 8GHz and input...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $18,768.99 firm fixed-price purchase order to Digi-Key Corp (doing business as Digi-Key Electronics) on September 17, 2025, for a qubit data acquisition and control platform under contract OU68-25-NEW-219. This award originated from a pre-solicitation market research notice issued in July 2025 seeking vendors capable of supplying a specialized quantum computing platform with 16 digital-to-analog and 16 analog-to-digital converter channels, 2.5 giga-samples per second sampling capability, field programmable gate array functionality, and 100G ethernet data output compatibility. The platform was required to integrate with NIST's Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit framework for use in the agency's Quantum Electronics Group testbed in Boulder, Colorado. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement, allowing open competition among all responsible sources. Digi-Key Corp, a for-profit electronic components distributor headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, served as the prime contractor with performance scheduled at its Thief River Falls facility. The contract completion date is November 5, 2025, providing delivery, installation, and training capability well beyond the original October 1, 2025 delivery requirement specified in the market research notice. As a specialized supplier of electronic components and modules to federal agencies, Digi-Key has established relationships across multiple government sectors and has previously partnered with major defense contractors and research institutions on complex procurements, making it well-positioned to source and deliver the specialized quantum computing platform equipment required for NIST's advanced research initiatives.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Qubit Data Acquisition and Control Platform | NB687000-25-02421 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Pre-Solicitation 1/2 | 7/15/25, 10:55 AM | |
Qubit Data Acquisition and Control Platform | NB687000-25-02421 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Solicitation 2/2 | 8/14/25, 11:59 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $18.8k | 9/17/25 |