This federal contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Tescan USA Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for the delivery of a panchromatic cathodoluminescence detector. The $26,525.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract has an April 17, 2015 completion date. Tescan USA Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Tescan ORSAY HOLDING, a Czech producer and supplier of advanced microscopy systems. Through over 50 federal contract awards totaling more than $10 million since 2002, Tescan has provided scanning and transmission electron microscopes, micro CT scanners, and focused ion beam instruments to support materials science, engineering, testing, and analysis across government agencies including NASA and the Departments of Defense, Energy, Commerce, and Interior.