This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Nanoscience Instruments Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, for the acquisition of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The $105,780.00 contract has an ultimate completion date of November 11, 2016 and was awarded on September 29, 2016. The contract was not set aside for a specific business type. Nanoscience Instruments Inc. is a specialized provider of advanced scientific instrumentation, including SEMs, to various federal agencies to support their research and analysis activities across materials science, biological studies, and other disciplines.