The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $178,228.40 firm fixed price purchase order to Formfactor, Inc. to provide a semi-automated probe station for characterizing CMOS devices designed for biophysical measurements. The probe station must be capable of performing DC and low-frequency measurements up to 10 MHz, including current vs. voltage (IV) and capacitance vs. voltage (CV) measurements. Key requirements include a motorized stage, machine vision, scripting, and...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command has awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at forty-five thousand four hundred seventy-six dollars ($45,476) to Instec, Incorporated of Adelphi, Maryland. This procurement is for one high temperature vacuum probe station to meet the specifications originally solicited on January 19, 2023. Key among the solicitation's requirements is a system capable of heating a sample size of at least one square...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order in the amount of $170,000.00 to MPI America Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business manufacturer, for an Automated Microwave Probe Station. This purchase order was a Total Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded under simplified acquisition procedures. The probe station is needed by NIST's Communications Technology Laboratory for precision testing of on-wafer...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $361,584.75 firm fixed price purchase order to Semiprobe, Inc. for the purchase of a magnetic probe station. The contract is being awarded non-competitively based on a special notice issued by NIST announcing their intent to sole source the procurement due to technical requirements only met by Semiprobe's SA-8 200mm prober. The notice specified requirements for wafer stage motion and placement accuracy, magnet...
Probe Master Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer of testing equipment components, has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command for $2,311.40. The award is for the delivery of probe assembly units to support Navy systems testing requirements. Performance will be completed by June 2021 at Probe Master's facility in El Cajon, California. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement for the probe assemblies.
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a Defense agency, to Formfactor Beaverton, Inc. (doing business as Cascade Microtech), a manufacturer of test and measurement equipment and solutions for the semiconductor industry. The $130,881.61 contract is for the delivery of a manual probe station. The award was not set aside and was likely competed openly. As a prime contractor, Formfactor Beaverton has provided probe cards, positioners, wafer...
This is a $15,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Creative Devices Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of semiconductor inspection and test equipment, materials research equipment, and metrology systems. The award is for the procurement of semiconductor probe stations, 8" probe stations, and 2-meter high voltage triax cables. There is no set-aside designation for this contract. Creative Devices Inc. has previously served as a subcontractor,...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Maple Leaf Photonics LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the procurement of a Maple Leaf SD-100 Optical Probe Station or equivalent. The $99,250.00 firm fixed-price purchase order is for the Photonic Integrated Circuit Advanced Research and Development (PICARD) program at NASA Langley Research Center. This requirement was set aside for small businesses...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Lucas / Signatone Corporation, doing business as Lucas Labs, for the purchase of a probe system. The $106,240.00 firm fixed-price purchase order has a completion date of January 31, 2018. Lucas Labs is a manufacturer of semiconductor testing equipment and probe stations, and has received several previous federal contract awards from agencies such as the Department of the Navy,...
This is a $132,005 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Formfactor, Inc. to provide on-wafer probing devices from 500 GHz to 1100 GHz. The order is for eight WR1.5 on-wafer probes, with four operating between 500-750 GHz and four operating between 750-1100 GHz. The probes must meet requirements related to overtravel, bias tee, pitch, insertion loss, and return loss. The award was made on a full and open...