Purchase Order 89243320PFE000281

This firm fixed-price federal contract was awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) under the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for the Advanced Composites Project (ACP). The $1,047,437 contract aims to extend the Discrete Damage Modeling (DDM) framework to predict fatigue life of rotorcraft structures, such as blade spars, through progressive damage analysis. The effort will validate the DDM methodology under fatigue loading by comparing results...

This is a $79,103.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of North Texas (UNT) Research and Innovation Division, doing business as Vice President Research Services. The agreement is for the "DESIGN OF TUNGSTEN BASED ALLOYS FOR PRINTABILITY PERFORMANCE SYNERGY" and has a performance period ending on May 31, 2025. UNT is a public research university that has received over 50 federal prime and...

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...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $304,205.00 definitive, cost-no-fee contract to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) for post-buckling simulation of laminated composites using discrete damage modeling. The contract has no set-aside designation and was awarded on July 17, 2017, with a completion date of October 18, 2019. UTA is an educational institution that provides research, education, and technology transfer services to federal agencies,...

This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $448,017.00, was issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Laboratory Testing Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The contract is for the delivery of Charpy specimens, including series LL-170 through LL-175 (1,900 each) and series HH-171 through HH-174 (1,900 each). This is a firm fixed-price delivery order contract with no set-aside designation. Laboratory Testing Inc. holds two...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $529,883 firm fixed price purchase order to Illinois Tool Works Inc., doing business as Instron, A Division Of Illinois Tool Works, for the delivery of two universal testing machines. The solicitation sought to replace and upgrade two machines at the Bureau's Technical Service Center laboratory in Denver, Colorado - a 1,000kN dual test space universal testing machine and a 50kN tabletop dual column universal testing machine. Per...

The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $538,452.00 definitive contract to the University of Houston System to conduct research and development on an in-track apparatus to improve thermite weld and rail integrity. The goal is to develop technology to vibrate a thermite weld during the welding process to create stronger welds. This contract is not set aside for any specific business type. The University of Houston System, a state institution of higher learning, will perform the...

This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Texas at Austin for a study on material response to high-enthalpy flow generated by an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) torch facility. The $456,324.90 contract will fund modifications to the ICP torch facility at UT Austin, including the installation of a cooled deflection plate and an inert gas shroud, to enable testing of materials that may melt rather than ablate. The...

This is a $324,962.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) for research and development services related to the assessment of cracked soil mass integrity using a geophysical and coupled mechanistic approach. The contract does not utilize any set-aside designations. This award appears to be a task order under a larger indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract held by The Texas A&M...

The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center awarded a $28,060.38 firm fixed-price purchase order to Industrial Physics Inc. (doing business as T M I DIV) for a 300KN Tensile Tester Upgrade. The upgrade includes replacing the existing PC controller system, installing new DragonFly UTM software, and adding test templates and loadcell verification for the United Tensile Tester Computer System at Tinker Air Force Base. This one-time procurement is intended to...