This is a $301,447 firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Defense agency Construction and Equipment to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. (Ads) under the Special Operations Equipment - Tailored Logistics Support (SOE TLS) multiple-award contract vehicle. The contract is for the delivery of a 70cm Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, which will be performed in Virginia Beach, Virginia by the March 2025 completion date. Ads, a for-profit military equipment supplier, will be the prime contractor....
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Photon Gear, Inc. for 10 athermalized telescopes. The purchase order is valued at $129,660.00 and has a delivery period of 11 weeks. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), as NASA determined Photon Gear, Inc. to be the sole provider of the required telescopes. The place of performance is Ontario, NY....
This federal contract award is for the purchase of an aluminum plano mirror from Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp., a small business manufacturer of optical components and subsystems. The $54,360 firm-fixed-price purchase order was issued by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), a defense agency, and has a performance period ending on July 10, 2024. The mirror, measuring 500mm in diameter, will be made of fused quartz and coated with protected aluminum. This requirement was originally solicited...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to Composite Mirror Applications, Inc. for the design, manufacturing, and delivery of a 9-segment heliostat mirror assembly, including 1 spare segment and a finite-element analysis (FEA) report. The total ceiling value of the contract is $140,973.00, and the required delivery date is October 31, 2024. The award was made on April 11, 2024 without a set-aside designation. This...
This is a $749,714 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Semplastics EHC LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for the development of a novel, innovative ceramic material that can be used to produce large, lightweight, and cost-effective mirrors for next-generation telescopes. Semplastics will deliver four large mirrors up to 0.6 meters in diameter, with coated and...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to Optotune Switzerland AG, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, to design, build, and test 25 space-qualified laser scanning mirror units for the Space Qualified Rover Lidar (SQRLi) project. The total contract value is $427,683.00 with an ultimate completion date of April 20, 2024. This contract is the result of a sole-source 8(a) set-aside solicitation seeking proposals for a space-flight...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $63,500 firm fixed price purchase order to Lockwood Custom Optics, Inc. to deliver a large diameter schlieren mirror. The mirror will support the Material Measurement Laboratory's research efforts in fluid flow visualization for contraband detection applications. Specifically, the prime contractor will provide the mirror along with a two-year warranty, installation guidance, and compliance with safety and...
The Department of the Air Force Headquarters Air Force Academy awarded a Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Lunt Solar Systems LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a ONE METER TELESCOPE. The contract, with a potential value of $729,000.00, has a completion date of December 2, 2019. The contract award was based on a Request for Quotations (RFQ) that was posted on August 22, 2018, with a due date of September 4, 2018. The RFQ and associated attachments...
This federal contract award, valued at $112,009.34, was issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. (doing business as Ads Inc.), a military equipment supplier, for the delivery of a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with internal components. The contract is a Delivery Order under the DLA's Special Operations Equipment - Tailored Logistics Support (SOE TLS) Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV). As a prime contractor, Ads Inc. has a history of providing specialized...
The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support awarded a $244,290 firm fixed price delivery order to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the provision of one polished edge mirror measuring 48 inches by 36 inches. SAIC will perform the order from its facility in Fairfield, New Jersey, with work to be completed by August 22, 2023. As the prime contractor on the order, SAIC will likely utilize internal resources to fulfill the mirror specifications. No subcontractors or set...