Purchase Order 75N94026P00154

Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC has been awarded a $40,521.60 firm fixed-price purchase order by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Department of Health and Human Services for maintenance services on an LSM980 confocal microscope equipped with Airyscan2 technology. This non-competitive sole-source award, issued on March 2, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of March 1, 2027, will support the Laboratory of Sensory Physiology and Biophysics' research activities focused on mechano-electrical transduction processes in sensory hair cell physiology. The work will be performed in White Plains, New York, where Carl Zeiss Microscopy maintains its headquarters and primary operations facility.

The award was executed under Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures and carries no small business set-aside designation. This purchase order is issued under Carl Zeiss Microscopy's existing blanket purchase agreement with the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations valued at $10 million through September 30, 2026, which covers operation and maintenance items for medical and scientific equipment and instruments. Carl Zeiss Microscopy is a foreign-owned microscopy equipment manufacturer and distributor with extensive federal contracting experience across civilian agencies, particularly the National Institutes of Health, and maintains additional IDIQ vehicles including a General Services Administration Schedule contract valued at $62.1 million through March 3, 2030.