Purchase Order 1333ND26PNB770316
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $308,736 purchase order to Izum Inc., an SBA 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business, on August 29, 2025, for quantum networks entanglement layer research under a Total Small Business set-aside. Work is performed at NIST's Gaithersburg, Maryland facility through August 28, 2027. The order requires development of a Quantum Network Optimizer, entanglement distribution protocols, and entanglement routing models capable of supporting...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a purchase order to Technical Communities, Inc. on August 22, 2025, for a Keysight N7786C Polarization State Synthesizer with a ceiling value of $62,241.00. The order is designated as a total small business set-aside. Place of performance is Gaithersburg, Maryland. Technical Communities, Inc., a small business, will deliver one new polarization synthesizer to support NIST's Quantum Information Group research in characterizing...
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order valued at one hundred fifty-two thousand one hundred dollars ($152,100) to Nucrypt LLC located in Park Ridge, Illinois. The award is to procure an Entangled Photon Source and two polarization state analyzers as specified in the original special notice, with no set-aside designation utilized. The equipment will support NIST's collaboration with other government agencies through...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Seventh Genius LLC (doing business as DC Supplies), a woman-owned small business, on August 21, 2026, for $83,900 under a total small business set-aside. The order covers two Polatis Series 6000 Ultra Secure grade all-optical switches—one 8x8 model and one 16x16 model—configured for quantum networking testbed applications at NIST's Gaithersburg, Maryland facility. Equipment must meet SMF28 optical matrix configuration...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a purchase order to Quantum Opus LLC on August 19, 2025, for two superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) for quantum networking metrology, with a ceiling value of $33,250.00 and firm fixed price. Performance takes place in Plymouth, Michigan. The order is for SNSPDs compatible with NIST's existing Quantum Opus 2.2K cryostat system, to operate continuously 24 hours per day, 7 days per week within NIST's quantum research...
- <p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Qunnect, Inc. for $99,500 on September 15, 2025, for an entangled photon source. Qunnect is a small disadvantaged business. Work is performed in Brooklyn, New York. The order carries a firm fixed price and completion is scheduled for March 15, 2026. No set-aside category applied.</p>
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $16,045 firm fixed price purchase order to Advr, Inc. to deliver an entangled photon source. As part of its mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness, NIST supports research in quantum information science and precision measurement. This award will provide Advr the opportunity to supply NIST with an entangled photon source to support the agency's ongoing research efforts in these...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to S-Fifteen Instruments PTE LTD for a 1320 nanometer entangled photon source with a ceiling value of $24,500. The contract was awarded on September 11, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of October 9, 2024. The vendor, based in Singapore, will deliver the quantum optics equipment to support NIST's research and measurement capabilities. No set-aside designation was applied to this award....
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to AB Group Inc. for $18,322.44 on August 5, 2026, to supply O-band optical filters. AB Group is a self-certified small disadvantaged business. Performance occurs at AB Group's facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The order procures four tunable, low-loss, narrow-band optical filters in the O-band wavelength range near 1310 nanometers across two line items: two manually tunable filters with 0.15–0.20 nm pass bandwidths...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $99,200 firm fixed price purchase order to Quantum Opus LLC, a Plymouth, Michigan-based small business specializing in quantum sensing and detection technologies. The contract, designated OU67-25-NEW-090 and set aside for total small business, calls for the delivery of a 2-Channel Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector (SNSPD) System to support NIST's Quantum Optical Networking program. The system must meet rigorous...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to AB Group Inc. on August 25, 2026, for polarization entanglement analyzers valued at $27,038.74. AB Group is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Columbia, Maryland. The order calls for two quantum network research analyzers: one operating at 1320 ± 20 nm with device return loss less than 60 dB, and one at 795 ± 15 nm with device return loss less than 50 dB. Both units must feature FC/APC single-mode fiber inputs, two high-precision rotation stages with half-wave and quarter-wave plates, and capability to measure in the canonical basis {H, V, D, A, R, L} for 2-qubit density matrix calculations. Angular repeatability must exceed 0.1 degrees; compact dimensions may not exceed 5" × 5" × 8" excluding fiber connections. All items must be new, manufacturer-packaged with original documentation and warranted per original equipment manufacturer commercial terms for minimum 12 months parts and labor. Performance occurs at Columbia, Maryland. Delivery is FOB Destination within thirty days of order receipt or up to three months as specified in requirements. The order is firm fixed price under FAR Part 12 commercial item procedures and originated from solicitation OU77-FY26-170-NEW, posted July 13, 2026, with proposals due July 21, 2026.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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NIST Polarization entanglement tomography analyzer | 1333ND26QNB770359 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Solicitation 1/1 | 7/13/26, 10:08 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $27.0k | 8/24/26 |