Purchase Order DOCSB134117SU0297

<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc. on May 14, 2026, for new lasers, with a ceiling value of $40,452.40 under firm fixed-price terms. The order carries no small business set-aside. Performance occurs in Denmark, with ultimate completion by July 24, 2026. The order references solicitation OU68-FY26-345-NEW LASERS.</p>

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $16,546.66 firm fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc. for a laser system on March 27, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of May 10, 2025. The contract carries no set-aside designation, indicating open competition. NKT Photonics, a Denmark-based manufacturer of advanced photonics equipment with a U.S. business presence in Boston, Massachusetts, is a recognized leader in precision laser systems and optical...

This $258,700.00 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Coherent Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods. The contract is for a sapphire modelocked laser pumped by a high power green pump laser, followed by an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) system, to be used for spectroscopy of ultrafast materials, semiconductor nanostructures, and time resolved measurements of novel superconducting materials. No...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, has awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Picoquant Photonics North America Inc., a small business, for the procurement of a Pulsed-Diode Laser System with Sepia II Software. The contract, valued at $48,817.00, has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2024. This sole-source award was made without a set-aside designation, as NIST determined Picoquant to be the...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to Coherent Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of lasers and laser systems. The contract has a ceiling value of $735,654.00 and is for the delivery of time resolved interfacial non-linear optical spectroscopy services to NIST. The contract has an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2010 and was awarded on September 22,...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of photonics equipment, for a low-frequency noise continuous wave fiber laser. The $18,690.25 contract does not have a set-aside designation. The laser system is to be delivered by November 4, 2024, and will support NIST's research and development activities across scientific and defense applications. NKT Photonics has previously received various...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $56,424.60 firm fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. on September 2, 2025, for a tunable laser system operating in the 1300nm O Band. The contract, identified as OU68-25-NEW-172, supports NIST's Physical Measurements Lab Quantum &amp; Nanophotonics Group and their research into microresonator optical frequency combs for photonic in-memory computing acceleration. The laser specifications include a continuous...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $159,604.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of photonic equipment, for a filtered supercontinuum laser system. This award was made through a competitive solicitation that did not utilize a set-aside program. NKT Photonics has a history of providing specialized lasers, optical fibers, and other photonics technologies as a prime contractor and...

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order of $44,160 to Picoquant Photonics North America Inc. to provide one pulsed-diode laser system with Sepia II software. The original solicitation sought this proprietary equipment from Picoquant to ensure compatibility with an existing laser and software used by NIST for research experiments in quantum networking, optical time-domain reflectometry, and related measurement science...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $136,158.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of high-performance fiber lasers, photonic crystal fibers, and related photonics equipment. The contract is for the delivery of a supercontinuum laser source system to support NIST's research and development activities. No set-aside designation was indicated for this award. As a prime contractor...