Purchase Order 1333ND26PNB030068

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $195,411.08 to Protochips, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for-profit organization, and manufacturer of goods. The contract is for the delivery of a specialized heating/biasing sample holder capable of operating at temperatures up to 900°C and applying voltages up to 40V, designed for in-operando studies of electrical and optical devices using a transmission...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $243.5K firm fixed-price purchase order to Nanoelectronic Imaging, Inc. on March 23, 2026, for development of a CHIPS R&D Electrical/Thermal Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) holder. The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2026, will be performed at the contractor's facility in Riverside, California. This award was not set aside for small business participation, though Nanoelectronic...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to Protochips, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for a Fusion Select MEMS-based heating system with double-tilt holder for a JEOL 2100F transmission electron microscope, an AXONCore controller, an AXON "Synchronicity PRO" software module, and a mobile laptop controller. The total potential value of the contract is...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $51,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to E.a. Fischione Instruments, Inc. on March 23, 2026, for a CHIPS Research & Development on-axis transmission electron microscopy (TEM) tomography holder. The contract, which carries no set-aside designation, is scheduled for completion by June 12, 2026, with performance taking place at the contractor's facility in Export, Pennsylvania. Fischione Instruments, a specialized...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Cameca Instruments, Inc. valued at $5,680,519 on February 14, 2025, for a Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) tomography system under the CHIPS and Science Act framework. No set-aside was used. The system will be delivered to Madison, Wisconsin, and is scheduled for ultimate completion on April 13, 2030. The purchase order follows a pre-solicitation market research notice that NIST posted on October 21, 2024, seeking...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $251,993.25 firm fixed-price purchase order to Semiprobe, Inc. (doing business as Semiprobe LLC) for a commercial semi-automatic probe station on April 2, 2026, with completion targeted for June 29, 2026. This contract carries a Total Small Business set-aside designation and will be performed in Boulder, Colorado. The award originated from a special notice (NIST-SS26-CHIPS-44) that NIST posted on December 9, 2025, indicating its...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $111,551.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned small business manufacturer of cryogenic systems and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. The contract is for the delivery of a cryostat prototype with at least 250 MW of cooling power, temperature fluctuations less than 20 mK peak-to-peak at 4 K, and compatibility with the agency's chip packages. This...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $95,297.57 firm fixed-price purchase order to Mettler-Toledo LLC on September 10, 2024, for the procurement, delivery, installation, and training of a Thermomechanical Analyzer (TMA) system. The award represents a modification to de-obligate excess funds associated with the original TMA procurement. The system will be delivered and installed at NIST's Gaithersburg, Maryland facility to support a CHIPS Metrology-funded project...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the Department of Commerce awarded a $36,155.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Instec, Incorporated, a small business manufacturer of scientific instrumentation, to provide a high-temperature vacuum probe station system. This procurement was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing). The probe station will support NIST's CHIPS Metrology program and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of advanced scientific instruments, to procure an Electrochemical Atomic Force Microscope (ECAFM). The $795,692.00 contract supports NIST's CHIPS Act project on "Electrodeposition of Interconnect Materials and Packaging" and requires the delivery and installation of the ECAFM system within 20...