Purchase Order 80NSSC17P1714

This $137,675.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to Coldedge International Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged, woman-owned small business. The contract is for closed-cycle flow cryostat systems with fully closed-cycle operation, requiring no separate liquid cryogen (liquid nitrogen or liquid helium) supply. The system must provide continuous 4.2 Kelvin temperature at the cold tip via a flexible...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to American ULT Cryogenics, LLC (doing business as Janisult), a for-profit limited liability company, for an HE-3 Cryostat with Superconducting Magnet, Model HE-3-SSV. The contract has a potential value of $200,220.00 and a completion date of October 28, 2019. This award is not associated with a set-aside program. American ULT Cryogenics, LLC has provided similar cryogenic and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Montana Instruments Corporation, a small business manufacturer of cryogenic equipment, to provide a 4K cryogen-free optical cryostat system. The $158,435 contract supports NIST's Physical Measurement Lab and the Nanofabrication and Measurement Group's research activities in areas such as quantum physics and materials science. The system will be used for cryogenic optical microscopy and...

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at one million four hundred eighty-eight thousand seven hundred fifty US dollars to Cryogenic US, LLC for the purchase of a twelve tesla cryogen-free superconducting magnet with an integrated dilution refrigerator. The magnet and refrigerator will maintain temperatures below four kelvin without liquid cryogens for use in NIST's Center for Neutron Research facility, as...

The Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a $294,750 firm fixed price purchase order to CCH Equipment Co. for the delivery of three portable horizontal liquid nitrogen tanks. The solicitation requested tanks with a storage capacity between 5,000-6,000 gallons, maximum allowable working pressure of 125 pounds per square inch gauge or greater, and capable of withdrawing liquid nitrogen at up to 1.25 gallons per minute. Delivery is required to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $300,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Bluefors Cryogenics of Finlandiya for a helium-3 dilution refrigeration system. The solicitation sought a single system capable of achieving a base temperature of 35 millikelvin or lower and providing 200 microwatts of cooling power at 100 millikelvin, to support NIST's radioactive sample measurement research program. There was no set-aside designation. Bluefors...

This firm-fixed-price purchase order contract, valued at $649,900, was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to American ULT Cryogenics, LLC (DBA Janisult), a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the purchase of a dilution refrigerator system, which is a type of ultra-low temperature laboratory equipment used for cooling samples in a neutron beam and applying high electric fields....

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1.2 million firm fixed price contract to Bluefors OY, doing business as Bluefors Cryogenics, for a cryogenic dilution refrigerator system. The solicitation sought a dilution refrigerator to achieve a base temperature below 10 milliKelvin with specified cooling powers, along with vibration isolation packaging and accommodation for dense radio frequency and optical wiring configurations. To be installed at the Air...

This is a $83,280 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to Cryomech, Inc., a small disadvantaged business manufacturer of cryogenic equipment. The contract is for the delivery of a liquid nitrogen plant and is set aside for small businesses. The original solicitation was issued as a Request for Quotations under NAICS code 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals) and PSC 3655 (Cryogenic Equipment). The award...

Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at thirty-five thousand three hundred fifty-nine dollars ($35,359) from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The award is to provide one helium vaporizer vacuum assembly, two sample positioner assemblies with sliding seals, and support for an existing superconducting magnet cryostat system upgrade at NIST. The original pre-solicitation notice sought these cryogenic...