Full and Open Competition after exclusion of sources
Major Defense Program
Not listed
Pricing Type
Firm Fixed Price
Place of Performance
New York, NY 10025, USA
Solicitation Procedures
Negotiated Proposal / Quote
Number Of Offers Received
500
Legislative Mandate
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National Interest Action
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Research Type
SBIR Program Phase I Action
Primary Consortia Member
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This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was issued to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to develop new optical interference coatings with low film stress and high reflectance in the x-ray band from 0.1 to 10 keV. These coatings are critically needed for the construction of lightweight, nested x-ray telescopes with high collecting area and sub-arcsecond resolution for the Lynx mission, a high-energy flagship mission under consideration for the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey, as well as for other future NASA x-ray missions. The contract award, valued at $124,999.00, is a Firm Fixed Price purchase order under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract was awarded on July 27, 2018 with a completion date of February 15, 2019.