The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $53,500.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Oxford Instruments America, Inc., doing business as Oxford Instruments, a foreign-owned for-profit organization. The contract, which did not have a set-aside designation, is for the delivery of specialized plasma processing systems, analytical instrumentation, and related components to support USGS research programs across semiconductor development, materials science, and...
The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Oxford Instruments America, Inc. (doing business as Oxford Instruments), a foreign-owned for-profit company, for the delivery of an energy dispersive spectrometer. The award, valued at $45,665.00, is not associated with a set-aside designation. According to the award details, this specialized instrument is required to integrate with the USGS's existing...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), to Oxford Instruments America, Inc. for the upgrade of an electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) system. The contract, valued at $151,910.00, has a completion date of May 23, 2025. The original solicitation was a special notice to procure this EBSD/EDS system on a sole source basis, as the agency determined...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order valued at $127,180.00 to Oxford Instruments America, Inc. to provide an Integrated AZtecHKL system, also known as an Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction (EBSD) system, to add to the existing Tescan Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The contract was awarded without a set-aside designation, as Oxford Instruments was determined to be the sole source capable of providing the necessary equipment that would integrate with...
The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $350,794.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Seequent USA Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of goods, for Seequent Geosoft software subscriptions and related products. The contract has no set-aside designation. The software provides geospatial data processing and analysis capabilities, including 2D and 3D data manipulation, gravity and magnetics modeling, and compatibility with Esri's ArcGIS. The...
The U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $117,600.00 firm fixed price purchase order to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to provide monazite geochronology sample analysis services. This sole-source award was made under the authority of FAR 13.5, Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items, as UMass has the only specialized electron microprobe analyzer that meets the USGS's required precision and accuracy. The USGS's Florence Bascom Geoscience...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Oxford Instruments America, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, for the delivery of an OXFORD AZZTEC MICSF+/X-STREAM2//X-MAX50//NORDLYS SYSTEM. The contract has a potential value of $89,329 and a period of performance through May 31, 2028. The contract was awarded on December 1, 2023 as a result of a competitive solicitation issued on...
The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a $15,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Seequent USA Inc. to deliver 3D modeling software. The solicitation did not specify a set-aside designation. Seequent will provide the requested software products and related services to the USGS under this contract vehicle. As a frequent customer of Seequent, this award indicates the USGS seeks to maintain or expand its geospatial modeling...
Oxford Instruments America, Inc., doing business as Oxford Instruments, was awarded a firm fixed price purchase order totaling one hundred thirty-eight thousand five hundred forty-five dollars ($138,545) by the United States Geological Survey to deliver an Energy Dispersive Silicon Drift Detector. The contract has no set-aside designation. Per the original solicitation, the detector will support research activities at the USGS Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center in Reston,...
The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $23,700.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Seequent USA Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of goods. The award is for a LEAPFROG GEOTHERMAL LICENSE, which provides software products and related services including software bundles, maintenance, and subscriptions for geothermal and geosoft software. The USGS is a frequent customer of Seequent USA, indicating the contractor's expertise in geological software....