Purchase Order 80NSSC18P1233

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a purchase order to Pronova Solutions, LLC for $41.6 thousand in proton beam test services, with an award date of August 4, 2026 and completion by August 5, 2026. The procurement was conducted as a sole source acquisition under FAR 12.102(a) using commercial item procedures. Performance takes place at Maryville, Tennessee. The order covers access to a high-energy proton beam facility capable of delivering up to 200 MeV protons with a passive scattering...

This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center (NASA) to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) located in France. The contract value is $59,775 and is for beam time needed at ESRF in September 2022 to conduct numerous internal short circuit experiments with lithium-ion battery cells. The solicitation sought this beam time to support NASA's Johnson Space Center and further the agency's research and...

NASA's Shared Services Center issued a purchase order to Kimball Physics Inc. for an e-beam high-energy electron source (SPLICE) valued at $220,675.00, awarded on August 11, 2025, with completion due June 4, 2026. The procurement was conducted as a sole-source acquisition under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), with no small business set-aside applied. Work is performed in Wilton, New Hampshire. The order procures a Custom Electron Gun System, Model EGH-8103/EGPS-8103 Magnetic Lens, meeting...

This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging to Precision X-Ray, Inc. for an X-ray irradiator. The $284,940 contract will provide the Translational Gerontology Branch, Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, and Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Immunology with an irradiator meeting specifications, including a 4 kW 320 kV tube and programmable motorized shelf with turntable. Delivery of...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany. The contract is for the irradiation of neutron detectors in various neutron fields, with a period of performance from December 4-6, 2019 and December 9-13, 2019. The total ceiling value of the contract is $28,401.10. This was a sole-source award under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), as PTB was determined to be the...

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration awarded S-Dh GMBH a $184,787 firm fixed price delivery order for neutron guide elements A through D monolith #1. S-Dh GMBH, a German company specializing in neutron guides and boron-10 based coatings, will provide the monolithic neutron guides to support the NNSA's neutron research programs. The delivery order was awarded on September 22, 2018 against the Department of Energy's General Services Administration Government-Wide...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Auburn University for accelerator beam time services, with a contract ceiling of $21,422.84 and a completion deadline of December 31, 2025. This award was issued on December 19, 2024, as a sole-source procurement under Simplified Acquisition Procedures, reflecting ONR's determination that Auburn University possesses unique capabilities to provide the required accelerator beam time services. The solicitation was...

This is a $23,483 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Caen Technologies Inc., a for-profit corporation based in Staten Island, New York. The contract is for the delivery of a CAEN N1471ET high voltage power supply and a NIM8301 crate, specialized instrumentation used in nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, and radiation detection applications. Caen Technologies Inc. has previously served as both a prime contractor and subcontractor,...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $54,335.60 firm fixed-price purchase order to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France for high-speed X-ray videography services. This sole-source contract, awarded on August 19, 2025 with completion targeted for February 18, 2026, was issued following a Special Notice posted on August 11, 2025. The award supports lithium-ion battery research critical to NASA's advanced propulsion and energy storage initiatives, specifically...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Uchicago Argonne, LLC to investigate electron screened, enhanced nuclear reactions by irradiating high density deuterated materials using electron linac generated bremsstrahlung gamma rays. The $510,000.00 contract has two phases: (1) hardware preparation and feasibility assessments, and (2) exposures of candidate materials and reporting. The goal is to conclusively determine if...