Purchase Order DOCSB134115SU0688

The Department of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Specs TII Inc. a $2.789 million firm fixed price purchase order to procure a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) - sputter deposition - angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) ultra-high vacuum cluster tool. The tool will include an MBE chamber, ARPES/XPS/LEED chamber, sputter deposition chamber, and sample transfer and handling module capable of meeting vacuum requirements and accommodating sample sizes up to 3 inches....

The Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command awarded a $256,500 firm fixed price purchase order to Nano-Master Inc. to deliver an electron beam evaporator system. The solicitation sought proposals to replace an existing unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, requiring the system evaporate various metals with a minimum of five sources, sample rotation up to 15 rpm, and deposition rate control. The award is set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 333242...

This is a $499,850 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to AJA International, Inc., a small business vendor. The contract is for the delivery of an E-Beam Evaporator System to support the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The system must include an ultra-high vacuum chamber, angled rotational substrate holder, a multi-pocket electron beam source, separate valves for in-situ target exchanges, ion and plasma sources,...

NASA awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order valued at $908,460 to KDF Technologies LLC of Rockleigh, New Jersey. The award is for a high uniformity sputter deposition system to meet NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's requirements. Per the original solicitation, the system must achieve thin film thickness uniformity of +/-2% within wafers and 1% between wafers, incorporate a load lock and ion source for cleaning, and maintain vacuum pressures below 1x10^-7 Torr to deposit thin metal films on...

Jeol USA Inc. has been awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $515,925 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center. The award is for an analytical, high-resolution, thermal Schottky type field emission scanning electron microscope as identified in NASA's pre-solicitation notice. The microscope must support both high and low vacuum organic and inorganic sample evaluation with an integrated energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and particle...

The U.S. Army Materiel Command, Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground awarded a $74,257.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to United Mineral & Chemical Corp (UMC), a small business, for one (1) Electron Beam Evaporator. This award was made under a small business set-aside solicitation seeking specialized equipment for a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system used by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. UMC is a New Jersey-based company that provides advanced...

NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) awarded a $172,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Angstrom Engineering Inc. for the procurement of a sputter system capable of RF and DC sputtering, heating a substrate up to 500°C during deposition, co-sputtering, and reactive sputtering. This sputter system is to be used for the deposition of metals and metal oxides. The contract has an ultimate completion date of November 9, 2023. No set-aside designation was reported for this award. Angstrom Engineering...

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 federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Kurt J Lesker Co, a woman-owned small business manufacturer and distributor of vacuum technology solutions. The $520,650 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for the delivery of an Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) Thin Film Deposition System to be used at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The UHV deposition system will support the fabrication of sensors and electronics...

This federal contract award, valued at $10,293, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Gatan Inc., a leading manufacturer of electron microscopy instrumentation and software. The contract is for the installation and training of PIPS II (Precision Ion Polishing System) equipment, which is used to prepare high-quality samples for electron microscopy analysis. Gatan Inc. is a subsidiary of Ametek Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments. The...