The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to Quantum Design, Inc. for the provision of an 8-channel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) system. The contract, valued at $230,500.00, was awarded on September 24, 2021 and is set to be completed by July 24, 2022. The contract was awarded as a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 334516. Quantum Design, Inc. is a manufacturer of automated...
This is a non-set-aside, firm-fixed price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned small business in Monrovia, California. The $380,820.00 contract is for the development of a WSI SINGLE ELEMENT NANOWIRE DETECTOR. Photon Spot Inc. is a manufacturer of advanced cryogenic systems and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors, primarily serving federal research institutions in quantum science, metrology, and photonics. The company has...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned, Subchapter S Corporation, to provide four superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) and one cryogenic system with corresponding electronics. The total potential value of the contract is $203,840.00, and the period of performance will be completed by March 5, 2018. Photon Spot Inc. has previously delivered similar...
This $201,500.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Quantum Design, Inc. - a small business manufacturer of specialized laboratory equipment and measurement instrumentation. The contract is for the delivery of a closed-cycle 4-channel superconducting nanowire single photon detector system, which was solicited under a Total Small Business set-aside. The original contract opportunity was a combined synopsis/solicitation...
This federal contract award, W911QX18P0315, was issued by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), a Defense agency, to Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit manufacturing company. The $82,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the delivery of four superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), two low-voltage transistor-transistor logic (LVTTL) converters, and a one-year warranty. This award was made as a sole-source solicitation under the...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command, a defense agency, to Quantum Design, Inc. for the delivery of a time-correlated single-photon counting camera. The $34,612.00 contract has a completion date of May 20, 2024. Quantum Design, Inc. is a manufacturer of specialized laboratory equipment and instrumentation for materials research, including cryogenic magnetometers, photon detection systems, and other precision testing platforms. This award is...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to Quantum Design, Inc. for four (4) single photon detectors with greater than 85% efficiency at peak wavelengths of 900 nanometers and 1300 nanometers, and timing jitter of less than 40 picoseconds. The potential value of the contract is $193,500.00. The contract did not use a set-aside designation. The detectors are to be delivered to the Army Research...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $147,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Qunnect, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, New York. The contract is for the delivery of an Automated Polarization Compensator (APC) and an Entangled Photon Source for quantum network links. The APC and Entangled Photon Source are specialized quantum networking technologies that were sole-sourced to Qunnect, as the government determined their Qu-APC and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Photon Spot Inc., a minority-owned small business, a $155,921.25 firm-fixed-price purchase order to deliver a single photon detection system. This system must include at least four single-photon sensors capable of detecting photons between 1000 nm and 2000 nm, with key requirements such as an operating temperature of 0.8K or lower, dark count rate of 50 cps or lower, recovery time under 100 ns, and timing jitter under 100 ps FWHM....
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a research and development organization within the U.S. Department of Defense. The contract was awarded to Anametric, Inc., a small business, for the development of a room-temperature single photon detector under the STTR Phase I research program. The contract has a ceiling value of $74,844.00 and a completion date of August 4, 2023. The contract award is set aside for small businesses,...