Purchase Order 80NSSC22PA090

This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense to Thermco Systems LIMITED, a foreign-owned manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment, to design, fabricate, assemble, build, test, evaluate, verify, validate, and procure a C1 horizontal furnace capable of growing oxide films at high temperatures up to 1300C for silicon carbide (SiC) wafer manufacturing. The total ceiling value of the contract is $520,208.00, with a...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Wolfspeed Inc., a leading manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor products. The contract, valued at $25,700.00, is for the purchase of consumable 4H-SIC substrates to be used for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 30, 2024. Wolfspeed, which does business as Wolfspeed, is known for providing advanced electronic...

The Department of the Navy, through the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Thermco Systems Limited, a foreign-owned manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment, for the provision of hardware for a Thermco brand high-temperature furnace capable of processing up to 6-inch silicon and silicon carbide wafers. The contract, valued at $52,956, has an ultimate completion date of December 30, 2024. This sole-source procurement was conducted under...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command to Thoughtventions Unlimited LLC, a small business, for the procurement of a vacuum furnace. The contract has a ceiling value of $74,050.00 and an ultimate completion date of January 17, 2025. The vacuum furnace must meet specific technical requirements outlined in the Statement of Work, including a maximum operating temperature of at least 2000 degrees Celsius and a tungsten mesh heating element. This award...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to MSE Supplies LLC, a minority-owned limited liability company, for the delivery of 6 wafers of 4-inch 4H-silicon carbide (SiC), vanadium-doped semi-insulating material. The contract has a potential value of $28,735.00 and a completion date of September 30, 2023. The requirement was originally posted as a sole-source opportunity, as MSE Supplies LLC was determined...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to Wolfspeed Inc., doing business as Wolfspeed, for the delivery of silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers. The $159,300.00 contract does not utilize any small business set-aside programs. Wolfspeed is a manufacturer of SiC components and materials, and has previously provided the government with specialized materials, radio frequency amplifiers, hybrid...

This is a $1,499,989.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Coolcad Electronics, Inc., a small business, for the development of a silicon carbide (SiC) CMOS integrated circuit high-temperature sensing platform with enhanced gate oxide reliability. The contract supports the statement of work "SiC CMOS Integrated-Circuit High-Temperature Sensing Platform with Enhanced Gate Oxide Reliability" and has a period of...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to United Silicon Carbide, Inc. (USCI) in the amount of $124,330.00. The contract is for the design and simulation of a silicon carbide (SiC) gate driver, which is a key component for enabling the performance advantages of SiC power switches in NASA's power conversion systems. The SiC gate driver will be able to operate in extreme temperature environments,...

The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground awarded a $397,637 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Genicore SP. Z O.o., a small business located in Poland, for the delivery of one Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) furnace with hybrid heating capabilities. The furnace must meet specific technical requirements such as a maximum operating temperature of 2300°C, a maximum compressive force of 100 kN, and the ability to operate in high voltage "flash sintering" mode. The contract...

This firm fixed price purchase order, awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to CVD Equipment Corporation (doing business as Research International), is for the purchase of a furnace system for high temperature processing of silicon wafers. The contract has a total ceiling value of $1,811,165.00 and was set aside for small businesses. The award date was September 23, 2010, and the ultimate completion date is June 30, 2013. CVD Equipment...