The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to Bristol Instruments Inc., a small business manufacturer of scientific measurement equipment, for the delivery of one high-resolution, high-accuracy laser wavelength meter capable of measuring infrared laser wavelengths. The $20,250.00 contract was set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of January 25, 2024. The wave meter is required to have a wavelength range of 550nm...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract for a WS8 wavemeter to Toptica Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of high-end laser systems for scientific and industrial applications. The $98,855.00 award was made on June 9, 2020, with a completion date of November 12, 2020. The wavemeter, with specific technical requirements including a measurement range of 330-1180 nm and high accuracy, was sole-sourced to Toptica Photonics as...
The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Bristol Instruments Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-precision optical and laser measurement devices, for the procurement of a Wavelength Meter and Spectrum Analyzer system. The contract, valued at $71,297.00, is a sole-source award under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 12 and 13. The contract includes the delivery of a 671A-MIR...
The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $147,390.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a private manufacturer of high-end laser systems, for a wavemeter system. The wavemeter system consists of a wavelength meter, photonic crystal switch, and wavelength stabilization control, to support research and development programs across the Department of Defense, NASA, and other agencies. The procurement was not set aside for any small...
This federal contract award is for the purchase of WAVE SENSORS by the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants. The $134,250.00 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded to Measurement Specialties Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of specialized measurement and sensing equipment. Measurement Specialties is a subsidiary of TE Connectivity and has received over 50 prime federal contracts since 2019, primarily from NASA, the Department of the...
The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order for a wavelength meter to Toptica Photonics Inc., a privately-held manufacturer of advanced laser systems and photonics technologies. The $70,465.00 contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, will deliver the specialized wavelength meter to support the agency's research programs. Toptica Photonics has provided similar laser and photonics instrumentation to various federal agencies,...
The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $24,179.24 firm fixed-price purchase order to Western Environmental Technology Laboratories, Inc. (Wet Labs), a manufacturer of oceanographic research and environmental monitoring equipment, to provide optical backscatter sensors. There was no set-aside designation for this award. Wet Labs, a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, has supplied optical equipment, bioluminescence sensors, and other components to the Department of the...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Biospherical Instruments, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in San Diego, California. The $737,551 firm fixed price contract is for the development and demonstration of a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) multiwaveband sensor pair (radiance and irradiance) for airborne and shipboard sensing of ocean color in low-light conditions. The new...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $157,760.00 to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of a wavemeter system. The system consists of a tunable laser wavelength meter with 8 input channels, an iodine-stabilized Nd:YAG laser, and associated control and integration hardware. The Government determined that Toptica Photonics was the sole source that could meet the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $101,184 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced laser systems and photonics instrumentation. The contract is for the delivery of a high-precision wavemeter capable of simultaneously measuring and locking the wavelengths of up to 8 independent lasers across the 390-1140 nm range with an absolute accuracy of +/- 10 MHz. This contract was awarded through an...