The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a Firm-Fixed-Price purchase order to Kep Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit small business, for the procurement of a high-temperature, high-pressure Calvet Pro calorimeter. The $177,494.72 award will support NIST's Applied Chemicals and Materials Division in expanding its calorimetric capabilities for thermophysical property research on molten metals and fuels. The purchase order includes...
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded a $95,297.57 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Mettler-Toledo LLC, a global manufacturer of precision instruments. The contract is for the delivery, installation, and on-site training of a Thermomechanical Analyzer (TMA) system, temperature/environmental control, and related software and accessories. The TMA system will support a CHIPS Metrology-funded project to...
<p>This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to Advsci-Materials, LLC, a small business, for nanocalorimetry measurements, calibration, and fabrication. The contract has a ceiling value of $101,760.00 and a completion date of September 27, 2016. The contract was awarded on September 28, 2015 and is designated as a total small business set-aside.</p>
This is a $235,000 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Keysight Technologies Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of 2.4 mm microcalorimeter standards. The purchase order includes 4 WR1.5 on-wafer probes operating between 500-750 GHz and 4 WR1.5 on-wafer probes operating between 750-1100 GHz. This is an open market acquisition with no set-aside designation. The microcalorimeter standards and...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $27,667 firm fixed price purchase order to United Mineral & Chemical Corp. for the delivery of a silicon sublimation source. The solicitation sought a source equipped with an intrinsic silicon filament and preheating mechanisms to enable sublimation at deposition rates below 2 Angstroms per minute. It was also to include high purity single crystal silicon shields, a water-cooled shroud, shutter, compatibility...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Office of Naval Research, a Defense agency, to Thermal Hazard Technology Inc. for a calorimeter system. The contract has a ceiling value of $142,920.00 and an ultimate completion date of January 20, 2017. Thermal Hazard Technology Inc. is a prime contractor that has received multiple federal contract awards to provide specialized calorimetry equipment and services to various government agencies. This particular award does not utilize a...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $111,551.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned small business manufacturer of cryogenic systems and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. The contract is for the delivery of a cryostat prototype with at least 250 MW of cooling power, temperature fluctuations less than 20 mK peak-to-peak at 4 K, and compatibility with the agency's chip packages. This...
Solomon Park Research Laboratories, Inc. was awarded a $251,750 firm-fixed-price purchase order by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce three standard reference materials. Specifically, the company will deliver one lot of 8,000 vials of Standard Reference Material 967b Creatinine in Frozen Human Serum, one lot of 24,000 ampoules of Standard Reference Material 965c Glucose in Frozen Human Serum, and one lot of 4,500 vials of Standard Reference Material 1955a...
This contract was awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) to Ta Instruments - Waters L.L.C., a manufacturer of advanced scientific instrumentation, for the procurement of a 4ML Nanocalorimeter. The contract has a ceiling value of $90,816.00 and is a firm fixed-price purchase order. There was no set-aside designation used for this award. The contract is a sole-source procurement, as the equipment is part of an existing TAM IV system currently in use, and only Ta Instruments can provide the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $95,839.71 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Thermtest Inc., a for-profit provider of thermal analysis equipment, to deliver a transient plane source system, transient hot wire system, and associated controlling software. The systems must be capable of measuring the thermal conductivity of solids and liquids from -40°C to 280°C. This requirement was competitively solicited with no set-aside designation, and the award was made...