Purchase Order 80NSSC22PB327

This firm-fixed-price purchase order, awarded to MRL Materials Resources LLC (MRL), a small business, requires the additively manufacture of test specimens from a specialized superalloy powder provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract, valued at $26,000.00, has a period of performance ending on September 29, 2025. The original solicitation was a special notice published by NASA, seeking a vendor to develop suitable process conditions and print various...

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Laboratory Testing Inc. a firm fixed-price purchase order for $32,112 to modify the side-groove depth of super-high-energy Charpy specimens (SRM 2098, SRM 2099) to induce complete fracture. The work will be performed in Hatfield, Pennsylvania by September 10th, 2022. This order was issued under a $7.7 million indefinite-delivery contract between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Laboratory...

This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Auburn University (AU) to investigate the fatigue behavior and failure mechanisms of Inconel 718 parts fabricated using Selective Laser Melting (SLM), a type of additive manufacturing (AM) process. The $105,682.00 contract aims to characterize the mechanical integrity of AM metallic parts, which is currently not well documented compared to traditionally manufactured parts. The research will...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $22,970 firm fixed-price purchase order to Additive Manufacturing & Engineering, Inc. (AME), a HUBZone-certified small business based in Huntsville, Alabama, for the production of additively manufactured GRCOP-42 very high cycle fatigue test bars. The contract, awarded on March 19, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2026, represents a continuation of AME's specialized work supporting NASA's propulsion research initiatives. This...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $160,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to Product Evaluation Systems, LLC for high temperature oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloy mechanical testing. The contract, effective March 17, 2026 with completion by July 7, 2026, supports NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in validating material properties for three NASA-developed ODS alloys: GRX-810, ORCAlloy-21, and Alloy 754-ODS. Product Evaluation Systems, a specialized metallurgical testing...

NASA's Shared Services Center has awarded a $31,350 firm fixed-price purchase order to Touchstone Testing Laboratory LLC for microtensile and elevated temperature testing of GRX-810 materials in support of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The contract, awarded December 9, 2024, with completion targeted for April 30, 2025, was procured through a sole-source Special Notice determination, with no set-aside designation applied. Touchstone Testing Laboratory, based in Scott Depot, West Virginia,...

Clarkson University, a private research institution in Potsdam, New York, has been awarded an unsolicited $35.7K grant to conduct a proof-of-concept study on high-throughput uniaxial tensile and compressive testing in additive manufacturing using a reference material load cell method. The award, issued by a Shared Services Center on January 1, 2025, represents a research grant with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2026. No set-aside designation was applied to this competitive award....

Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI) was awarded a firm fixed-price delivery order for $176,700 by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The delivery order is for the provision of SUPER HIGH CHARPY SPECIMENS, with performance at LTI's facility in Hatfield, Pennsylvania through June 30, 2021. LTI will deliver Charpy specimens, which are used to test materials' toughness and ability to absorb energy, as requested in the original solicitation. This delivery...

This $500,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Pittsburgh aims to develop a part-scale process-microstructure simulation tool to predict the microstructure evolution of Inconel 718 processed by powder bed laser fusion, a type of additive manufacturing (commonly referred to as 3D printing). The project seeks to overcome the challenges in certifying additive manufacturing parts due to the variability in microstructure and material...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $39,583.75 firm fixed price purchase order to Metcut Research Associates Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, to perform tensile and creep testing on superalloy specimens. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, requires Metcut to conduct 80 total tests across various temperature ranges per ASTM standards E21 and E139. This contract award is likely part of a broader NASA program...