The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders issued a purchase order to Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC for a LSM 990 confocal microscope system valued at $547,363.72, awarded September 24, 2026, with performance due January 15, 2027.
The procurement is a firm fixed price acquisition under FAR Part 12 (commercial products) and FAR subpart 13.5, sole source to Carl Zeiss Microscopy. Place of performance is White Plains, New York. The system includes an Axio Observer 7 VIS SP microscope with LSM 990 scanning module, 32-channel GaAsP detector array with Airyscan 2 detector, diode lasers (405 nm and 561 nm), motorized PIEZO stages, HP Z8 G5 Microscopy Workstation with Intel Xeon processor and NVIDIA RTX PRO4000 graphics card, ZEN 3.13 imaging software with Smart Acquisition, Advanced Acquisition, 2D, 3D, Microscopy Copilot, and Airyscan modules, one-year Software Maintenance Agreement, and ancillary optical components and objectives. The NIDCD requires the system to image mouse inner ear tissues and perform live imaging of cellular organelles in zebrafish with enhanced sensitivity and spatial resolution while minimizing photobleaching.