This is a $75,000 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Linseis Inc., a small business manufacturer of thermal analysis instruments and measurement products. The contract is for the delivery of a Linseis Thin Film Analyzer (Refurbished) along with various consumable supplies, such as foil masks, cloverleaf masks, metallic shadow masks, and measurement chips. This requirement was competed as a total small business set-aside solicitation. Linseis Inc. has...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $332,690 firm fixed price purchase order to Rmsw Partners, Inc. to deliver a wafer dimensioning tool. The tool must be capable of measuring the thickness of thin transparent and non-transparent substrates between 50 to 500 micrometers with an accuracy of 100 nanometers, precision of 100 nanometers, and repeatability of 100 nanometers over eight hours of continuous use, as specified in a June 2022 sources sought...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Bruker Nano, Inc., a division of Bruker Corporation, for the delivery of a BRUKER NANO DEKTAK XT (DXT-A) PROFILOMETER SYSTEM. The contract has a potential value of $66,603.00 and a completion date of August 4, 2022. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Bruker Nano, Inc. is a leading provider of scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, and has previously...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price purchase order worth $67,741.88 to Filmetrics Inc., a subsidiary of KLA Corporation, for the delivery of a UV-Visible-NIR Microscope for Optical Constants Determination. The contract has a completion date of December 20, 2023 and was awarded on October 4, 2023. No set-aside designation was indicated for this award. KLA Corporation is a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment and metrology...
This federal contract award, valued at $249,550.00, was issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to AJA International, Inc., a leading manufacturer of thin film deposition systems. The contract is for the delivery of a Thin Film Dielectrics Deposition System to support the development of high-efficiency superconducting single photon devices that utilize superconducting thin films and dielectric thin films/multilayers. This contract was awarded on...
This federal contract award, valued at $5,454,371.06, was issued by the U.S. Department of Defense's Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to the prime contractor, Advanced Thin Films, Inc., doing business as Precision Photonics. The contract is an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) under the CORNERSTONE program, which focuses on the development of laser weapons systems. The award includes the provision of a coating chamber and the fabrication of damage management systems (DMS)...
The Air Force Materiel Command awarded a $866,850 firm-fixed price definitive contract to The L.S. Starrett Company Tool Division for delivery of a vision measurement system. The system will replace an existing optical comparator and must meet the performance requirements in Purchase Description 20M-271A-DI Revision 0, including automated measurement software, calibration artifacts, and manuals. There was no set-aside designation for this award made pursuant to a solicitation seeking offers...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), a component of the Department of Defense, to Optowares Inc., a small business manufacturer of fiber optic equipment and components. The contract, valued at $999,852.55, is for the development of thickness measurement technology for thin films on sapphire substrates. The contract is set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of December 28, 2023. Optowares...
NASA awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order valued at $908,460 to KDF Technologies LLC of Rockleigh, New Jersey. The award is for a high uniformity sputter deposition system to meet NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's requirements. Per the original solicitation, the system must achieve thin film thickness uniformity of +/-2% within wafers and 1% between wafers, incorporate a load lock and ion source for cleaning, and maintain vacuum pressures below 1x10^-7 Torr to deposit thin metal films on...
The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Surface Measurement Systems LTD North America, a for-profit manufacturer and limited liability company, to provide a Breakthrough Analyzer, including installation and training. The contract, valued at $218,000.00, does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on January 21, 2022 with an August 22, 2022 completion date. The original solicitation was a sole source notice, as the agency...