The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has awarded a sole source purchase order to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for $92,500.00 to provide access and use of various instruments in CMU's Materials Characterization Facility. This 1-year contract, from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2025, will support NETL's research projects requiring advanced microscopy and microstructural characterization techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for access to the university's electron microscopy and material characterization facilities. The contract has a period of performance through February 14, 2023 and a ceiling value of $80,000.00. The award was made on a sole-source basis, as NETL determined that CMU was the only provider in the Pittsburgh area with the required...
This is a $585,000.00 firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The contract provides the government with access to CMU's electron microscopy facility, with a period of performance ending on September 30, 2021. CMU is a private, non-profit university known for its expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and materials science. While the original solicitation was not...
This federal contract award is for a service agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and FEI Company (a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific) for the Apreo2-C Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope. The contract has a ceiling value of $153,231.19 and a period of performance through August 9, 2026. This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract with no set-aside designation. The contract ensures continued maintenance and...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to Bio-Logic USA, LLC, a specialized provider of electrochemical instrumentation and equipment. The $59,531.65 award is to purchase scanning electrochemical microscope components and parts to expand the capabilities of NETL's existing scanning electrochemistry workstation. The components, including items U-SECM470 and U-ICSECM470, will enable Scanning...
This is a federal contract award by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to Jeol USA, Inc. for the maintenance of a JEOL 7600 FESEM Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope. The contract has a period of performance from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026 and a ceiling value of $48,930.54. It is a firm fixed price purchase order with no set-aside designation. The contract was awarded on a sole source basis, as NETL determined that only Jeol USA, Inc. can provide...
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory awarded Micromeritics Instrument Corporation a $260,751 firm fixed price purchase order to deliver one Breakthrough Analyzer 8100, associated equipment and installation services. The solicitation sought to fulfill NETL's analytical requirements through the sole source procurement of this specific instrument from Micromeritics, as the only known provider. There was no set-aside. Funding comes from DOE's Office of Fossil Energy in...
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has awarded a sole-source purchase order contract valued at $53,268.96 to Physical Electronics USA, Inc. for the maintenance and service of a VersaProbe III X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) Microprobe. This specialized surface analysis instrument is used for materials characterization research at NETL's facilities in Morgantown, West Virginia. The contract includes full functionality, technical support, upgrades,...
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) awarded a $133,412.92 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Gatan Inc., a leading manufacturer of electron microscope instrumentation and software. The award is for the provision of one Gatan Precision Etching Coating System (PECS II) model 685C, along with associated targets, to support NETL's Materials Testing Lab research on polymeric multilayer thin film composite membranes for carbon capture applications. This sole...
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) has awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Oxford Instruments America, Inc., doing business as Oxford Instruments, for a maintenance agreement covering NETL's Aztec Microanalytical Tools located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The contract has a ceiling value of $35,342.00 and a period of performance ending on August 21, 2025. This sole-source award was made without a set-aside designation, as Oxford Instruments is the...