Purchase Order 9531BM26P0002
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- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) awarded a $40,575 firm fixed price purchase order to FEI Company Materials And Structural Analysis Division for a service agreement to maintain one Apreo S LoVac Field Emission - Scanning Electron Microscope. The solicitation sought a 12-month service agreement for the microscope, to include rapid response services, preventative maintenance, certified replacement parts, software updates, and notifications. As the independent federal agency...
- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) awarded a $607,927.69 firm-fixed-price contract to FEI Company, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, for a variable pressure field emission scanning electron microscope (VP-FESEM). This equipment will be used by the NTSB Materials Laboratory in Washington, D.C. to support materials analyses during accident investigations across multiple transportation modes including aviation, highway, marine, railroad, and pipeline. The contract has a base...
- This is a federal contract award by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a civilian federal agency, to FEI Company's Materials and Structural Analysis Division, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The contract, valued at $42,198, is for annual maintenance of a VP-FESEM (Variable Pressure Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope). The contract has a fixed-price, firm-fixed pricing type and a completion date of December 7, 2025. The work will be performed in Washington, DC....
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to FEI Company, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, for a service agreement to provide environmental scanning electron microscope support. The contract has a ceiling value of $112,092.00 and a period of performance through April 10, 2019. FEI Company, as the original equipment manufacturer, will provide preventative maintenance, calibration, software...
- This federal contract award, valued at $931,449.00, was made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to FEI Company, Materials and Structural Analysis Division, a for-profit manufacturer of goods. The contract is for the purchase of an FEI Apreo LV field emission gun scanning electron microscope (FEG SEM) and three years of maintenance services. This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order with no set-aside designation. The contract has a completion date...
- 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 is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a civilian agency, to FEI Company, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The contract, valued at $11,078.58, is for the provision of a service agreement for an electron microscope system called the FEI SERVICE AGREEMENT FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AQUILOS. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 13, 2024. FEI Company is a premier manufacturer of advanced...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a civilian agency, to FEI Company, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, to provide maintenance services for a Quanta 650 scanning electron microscope. The contract has a ceiling value of $108,863.52 and runs through June 16, 2025, covering option year 4. The original contract opportunity was a sole-source procurement, as FEI Company is the only source capable of maintaining and repairing this...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order valued at one hundred six thousand seven hundred one dollars and seventy-two cents ($106,701.72) to FEI Company for maintenance support services for an FEI Quanta 600 Scanning Electron Microscope. The contract has a period of performance through July 31, 2027. As stated in the original sole source solicitation notice, preventive maintenance and repair services must be performed by an FEI Company...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency, to FEI Company, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The contract is for preventive maintenance service on a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Model L120C, located in Hillsboro, Oregon. The contract has a ceiling value of $22,140.00 and a completion date of January 29, 2026. The contract was awarded on July 30, 2025 and was not set aside for any specific business category....
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) awarded a 12-month service agreement purchase order valued at $43,463.94 to FEI Company for maintenance and support of an Apreo S LoVac Field Emission - Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) located in Hillsboro, Oregon. The contract was awarded on December 8, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 7, 2026, under a firm fixed-price arrangement with no small business set-aside. FEI Company, the Materials and Structural Analysis Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, was selected as a sole-source provider based on its unique technical qualifications as the equipment manufacturer and only authorized service provider for this specific microscope model. The service agreement provides rapid response maintenance, preventative service, certified replacement parts, software updates, and remote diagnostic capabilities essential to maintaining the FESEM's operational status. The NTSB, an independent federal agency responsible for investigating civil aviation and significant transportation accidents, requires this critical laboratory equipment for accident investigation and analysis activities. The procurement was conducted under FAR 13.106-1 authority, with a Special Notice posted on December 16, 2025, to allow interested parties a three business-day window to demonstrate alternative capabilities. While FEI Company's status as the original equipment manufacturer and authorized service provider justified the sole-source award, the NTSB indicated its intention to continue market research for identifying alternative sources in future procurement cycles. The contract ensures uninterrupted operational capability of this sophisticated scientific instrument vital to the agency's investigative mission.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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APREO S LoVac - Field Emission – Scanning Electron Microscope Service Agreement | PUR260033 | National Transportation Safety Board | Special Notice 1/1 | 12/16/25, 2:16 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $43.5k | 12/23/25 |