Purchase Order 1333ND26PNB770182
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $12,041.14 firm fixed-price purchase order to Swabian Instruments USA Inc. for a Time Tagger 20 instrument. The contract, designated OU77-25-NEW-100, was awarded on August 13, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of September 13, 2025. The work will be performed in Boston, Massachusetts, where the vendor is based. No small business set-aside was applied to this procurement, reflecting the specialized and proprietary nature...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a purchase order to Swabian Instruments USA Inc. for a time tagging electronics module valued at $21,339.81 on September 11, 2025. This is a Total Small Business set-aside under NAICS 334516 for Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. The equipment will be delivered to Germany, with ultimate completion required by December 30, 2025. The module supports time-correlated single photon counting experiments for quantum...
- This firm fixed price purchase order for $33,416.61 was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology to Swabian Instruments GMBH of Almanya, Germany. The award is to procure three TimeTagger20 time tagging units with 8 channel streaming time tagging system and 34 picosecond resolution for single photon counting, along with a full software package. This delivery supports the National Institute of Standards and Technology's research to develop a...
- This is a sole-source, firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Swabian Instruments USA Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit company, for the procurement of one TimeTaggerX unit, a specialized time tagging device used for single photon counting. The $28,947.35 award supports NIST's research efforts in developing a measurement test suite for quantum network component and protocol testing, verification, and characterization. The agency...
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order for $10,990 to Swabian Instruments GMBH of Almanya. The contract is for a single item: a time tagging unit for single photon detection. No set-aside provisions or subcontractors were specified. NIST supports the U.S. technology industry through research, standards development, and measurement services, and this purchase will provide equipment to enable NIST's work in...
- This federal contract award to Swabian Instruments USA Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, provides for the procurement of a Swabian Time Tagger X for single photon counting. The $28,947.35 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency. The Time Tagger X is a specialized instrument used for precision timing and measurement applications, particularly in support of quantum networking experiments and other...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. on May 14, 2025, for a high-precision wavemeter with a ceiling value of $101,184.00 and firm fixed pricing. Performance takes place in Germany, with delivery required to NIST's Boulder, Colorado facility by November 3, 2025. The wavemeter must measure wavelengths between 390–1140 nm with absolute accuracy of ±10 MHz and simultaneously measure and lock wavelengths for up to 8 independent lasers at...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a purchase order to Attocube Systems GMBH on May 20, 2026, for spectroscopic capabilities—attocube upgrade, with a ceiling value of $52,505.00. The order carries no set-aside designation and is firm fixed price. Performance occurs in Germany, with ultimate completion by September 14, 2026. The procurement addresses NIST's requirement for precision nanopositioning and advanced scientific instrumentation to support high-precision...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Department of Commerce, awarded a $91,535 firm fixed-price purchase order to Attocube Systems AG for six interferometric displacement sensors on September 19, 2025. This contract, designated OU68-25-NEW-261, responds to NIST's solicitation for fiber-optic-based interferometer systems required to build a compact, portable primary standard instrument for measuring gram-level masses using a Kibble balance. The sensors must meet...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Swabian Instruments GmbH, a German manufacturer of data acquisition and signal generation systems. The contract, valued at $66,509.97, is for the provision of Swabian Instruments' time taggers, which are specialized electronics used for precision timing and photon counting applications in quantum, life science, and timing research. The contract has an ultimate...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a purchase order to Swabian Instruments USA, Inc. for $42,422.49 on June 11, 2026, for a high-resolution 4-measurement channel Swabian Time Tagger. Performance takes place in Germany with an ultimate completion date of July 11, 2026. The procurement was conducted as a sole-source firm fixed-price purchase order under FAR Subpart 12.102(a). NIST procured this high-precision time measurement equipment to expand quantum networking research and single photon counting capabilities, supporting the agency's 2026 Strategy for American Technology Leadership and resilient time infrastructure initiatives. NIST currently operates a Swabian X Time Tagger and required a duplicate system to advance quantum network metrology protocols and data acquisition, visualization, and analysis applications.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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High Resolution Time Tagger | AMDTCNOI2600901 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Special Notice 1/1 | 3/18/26, 11:07 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $42.4k | 6/10/26 |