Purchase Order FA875125P0047
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- The Office of Naval Research awarded a delivery order valued at $136,755.72 to Ansys Inc. on July 24, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of August 8, 2025. This firm fixed-price contract procures multiple ANSYS Lumerical software licenses and associated technical support services, including FDTD (Finite-Difference Time-Domain), MODE, and INTERCONNECT products in both paid-up and TECS (Technical Education and Collaboration Support) configurations. The award utilizes no set-aside designation...
- This is a $240,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a Defense agency, to N.p. Photonics, Inc., a small business manufacturer. The contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project. The contract has a total small business set aside designation. N.p. Photonics, Inc. is a U.S. based fiber laser company that specializes in providing custom photonics solutions and has previously received other SBIR and Small Business...
- The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $26,777 firm fixed-price purchase order to Comsol, Inc. on July 10, 2025, for the purchase of software licenses. The contract, with an ultimate completion date of August 11, 2025, carries no small business set-aside designation and will be performed in Washington, DC. Comsol, Inc., headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a foreign-owned manufacturer of COMSOL Multiphysics, a specialized computational modeling and simulation software platform...
- The U.S. Office of Naval Research awarded a $30,260 firm fixed-price purchase order to ANSYS Inc. for ANSYS ZEMAX OpticStudio Pro software licenses on July 31, 2025. The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of September 24, 2028, represents a non-set-aside award and will be performed in Washington, DC. This procurement falls under ANSYS Inc.'s broader General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contract, a $558 million vehicle that enables federal agencies to acquire...
- The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $20,382 firm fixed price purchase order to Comsol, Inc. for COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS software licenses. The single award contract has a period of performance from September 2023 through December 2025 and will be performed in Washington, D.C. As the Office of Naval Research supports research in fields like artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and energy technologies critical to national security, this purchase...
- This is a $239,991.00 firm-fixed-price research and development contract awarded to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems, by the U.S. Department of the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop and test innovative photonic technologies with dual-use commercial and government applications. Freedom Photonics has previously received SBIR Phase I, II, and...
- This is a $240,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center to N.p. Photonics, Inc., a small business manufacturer of optical light sources. The contract is for a Phase I research effort under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The research and development work is focused on specialized photonics equipment and systems, such as advanced laser illuminators, optical transmitters, and precision timekeeping devices. This contract has a total small...
- This federal contract award was made by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to the small business contractor Freedom Photonics, LLC, located in Goleta, California. The $107,329.45 firm fixed-price purchase order is for the delivery of lightwave circuits. There is no set-aside designation for this award. Freedom Photonics is a manufacturer of advanced photonic components, modules, and subsystems, and has received numerous federal contract and grant awards to support research programs across...
- This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components, modules, and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The $239,907.00 contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I and has a completion date of October 20, 2022. The contract supports research and development of specialized lasers, photodetectors, and other...
- Forward Photonics LLC, a small disadvantaged business manufacturer specializing in photonics and laser systems, was awarded a $40,000 firm fixed-price purchase order by the Office of Naval Research on September 30, 2019, for a Laser System (PR# 56-9223-19). The contract, which did not use a set-aside designation despite originating from a Total Small Business solicitation, is scheduled for completion by December 23, 2019, with performance taking place at the company's facility in Woburn,...
The Office of Naval Research awarded a $342,650 firm fixed-price purchase order to Flexcompute Inc. on July 23, 2025, for photonics chip simulation software and computational credits. The contract, which will be performed in East Watertown, Massachusetts, is scheduled for ultimate completion on July 22, 2027. This sole-source award provides Tidy3D Pro annual licenses featuring unlimited concurrent simulations, 20 billion Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) grid size capacity, and associated FlexCredits for high-performance computing. The Tidy3D Pro software delivers 100 GB storage limits and access through a web graphical user interface, Python application programming interface, and web-based Python notebook capabilities, enabling optimization calculations for photonic chip component design involving up to 100 million cells. The Air Force Research Laboratory, in coordination with the Office of Naval Research, determined that Flexcompute's Tidy3D Pro represents the sole available photonics chip simulation software offering parallel processing capabilities via off-site high-performance computation infrastructure necessary for rapid design iteration in advanced photonics research. No small business set-aside was applied to this procurement, making it available to all business sizes. The contract structure encompasses both software licensing and the computational resources required to support the government's photonics research initiatives, with the requirement classified under NAICS code 513210 (Software Publishers).
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Photonics Chip Simulation Software & Credits | FA875125Q0112 | Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory | Pre-Solicitation 1/1 | 6/18/25, 10:36 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $171.3k | 7/23/25 |