Purchase Order NNG16HE51P

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 a One Meter Telescope valued at $724,000.00. The contract was awarded by the Department of the Navy Naval Observatory to Planewave Instruments Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer of goods. The contract is a firm fixed price purchase order with a completion date of April 15, 2019. Planewave Instruments Inc. is a subchapter S corporation that has previously supplied telescopes, telescope modifications, cameras, and prefabricated...

This $124,746 federal contract award was made by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Lightweight Telescopes, Inc. (LWT), a small business and minority-owned manufacturer. The contract is for developing and demonstrating nanocomposite optics technology (NCOT) based on carbon nanotubes, polymers, and 3D printing. The goal is to advance this technology to enable future space telescopes that are low-cost, rapidly fabricated, and have very large apertures. Key deliverables...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) to Texas Nautical Repair, LLC, a small business contractor, for the procurement of thirteen refracting finder telescopes. The total ceiling value of the contract is $74,100.00 and the ultimate completion date is December 30, 2023. The contract was awarded on September 16, 2022 and was set aside for small businesses. The telescopes must meet salient characteristics such as a minimum aperture size of...

The NASA Shared Services Center awarded a purchase order to Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions LLC on May 1, 2026, for extended warranty coverage of ATOS and TRITOP hardware, with a ceiling value of $25,494.90. No set-aside was used. Performance occurs at Huntsville, Alabama. The warranty covers one year through April 30, 2027, including hardware support for all system components, annual software releases, hot fixes, bug fixes, unlimited technical support via phone and email, and 24-hour...

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $1,249,996 definitive contract to Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories Inc. for additively produced telescope mirrors on December 22, 2023, under a total small business set-aside. This is an STTR Phase II effort continuing development of an additive production system for telescope mirrors, building on prior research for DARPA, MDA, and NASA. Place of performance is Tullahoma, Tennessee. The contract carries a firm fixed price and an ultimate completion date of...

This contract award to Peregrine Falcon Corporation is for the development of an innovative athermal telescope design using advanced lightweight and high-stiffness beryllium-aluminum (Be-38Al) material. The award is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The telescope design leverages Peregrine Falcon's expertise in Be-38Al, electroless nickel, and liquid interfaced diffusion (LID) bonding, combined with the...

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...

This is a $185,098.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research to Planewave Instruments Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer of telescopes and related equipment. The award provides optical tube assemblies to support space and earth science missions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The underlying solicitation was a total small business set-aside. Through this and prior prime contract awards, Planewave...