The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded KLA Corporation a $30,712 firm fixed price purchase order to upgrade a NIST-owned nano indenter XP system located in Milpitas, California. As the manufacturer of semiconductor equipment and metrology systems, KLA Corporation will provide specialized goods and services to support NIST's nanotechnology and microelectronics research efforts. No set-aside designation was applied to this award facilitating KLA's delivery of metrology...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, awarded a $1.16 million firm fixed price purchase order to KLA Corporation. The contract is to provide deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) fabrication systems to NIST through August 2024. DRIE is a critical microfabrication process required for many of NIST's mission-critical devices. Work will be performed by KLA in the United Kingdom, where the company is likely manufacturing the...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to KLA Corporation, a for-profit manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and metrology systems. The contract is for the delivery of PROBES with a total ceiling value of $8,584.40 and a completion date of September 6, 2024. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. KLA Corporation has been awarded numerous prime contracts by...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, awarded a $85,883 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Nanovea, Inc. for a Precision Hardness Instrumented Testing System. The original solicitation, which did not have a set-aside designation, was posted in January 2020 and awarded on March 24, 2020. Nanovea, a for-profit manufacturer of scientific instruments and testing equipment, has a history of providing similar...
This is a $115,130.00 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 Nanovea, Inc., a small business manufacturer, for the provision of one instrumented micro indenter, one module for acoustic sensing, and one module for micro friction sensor. The contract is set aside for small businesses. The micro indenter is required to measure the hardness and elastic modulus of various...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded to Keyence Corporation of America by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to acquire a Keyence LJ-X8020 laser profiler with a LJ-X8002 controller. The $25,000.00 contract will be used to support NIST's research in metals-based additive manufacturing, specifically to develop new metrology methods for laser powder bed fusion processes. NIST sole-sourced this procurement as the Keyence system was...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order worth $105,262.00 to Pi Physik Instrumente LP, a for-profit manufacturer of precision motion control and nanopositioning equipment. The contract is for the upgrade of a "Super Resolution Macro/Micro Stage System" to support specialized research and measurement applications in NIST's Materials Measurement Science Division. This sole-source award was justified...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $61,290.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to 5 Twenty-Two Systems, LLC, a small business, for the delivery of a microscope miniature mechanical testing apparatus and digital controller system. The purchase order is set aside for small businesses. The apparatus and controller will be used by NIST's Infrastructure Materials Group to monitor microstructural changes and cracking formation of materials under...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $96,935 firm fixed price purchase order to K-Space Associates, Inc. for the delivery of a laser etalon system. This award was made under a total small business set-aside solicitation for an analytical laboratory instrument per NAICS code 334516. The system includes a blue laser upgrade, detector, and software, and is intended to be used by NIST for surface science and thin film metrology. K-Space Associates is a leading supplier...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $564,500.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Nanotronics Imaging, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business manufacturer, for the delivery of an Automated Defect Inspection Tool. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, was awarded on September 11, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of June 19, 2025. This contract award is a standalone procurement and not associated...