Sistema Interamericano De Metrologia

Sistema Interamericano De Metrologia (doing business as SIM) is a non-profit international metrology organization headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay that receives federal funding exclusively from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for institutional membership fees and technical training grants supporting international measurement standards and laboratory capacity building across Latin America and the Caribbean.

SIM operates as a prime recipient only; the vendor has no subcontract footprint and does not compete under any SBA set-aside category. All five awards in the source data derive from a single customer — NIST under the Department of Commerce — accounting for 100% of identified federal activity. The award portfolio splits between two purchase orders for annual institutional membership fees and one project grant for technical training.

On the contracting side, NIST issued a purchase order to SIM on January 1, 2027 valued at $12,515 for SIM's 2027 institutional membership services, providing NIST access to SIM's activities and technical resources supporting NIST's international metrology programs across Latin America and the Caribbean; performance concludes December 31, 2027. A prior purchase order awarded July 1, 2023 for $37,575 covered active institutional membership through option year 2, with ultimate completion December 31, 2026. Both purchase orders carry firm fixed-price terms and full-and-open designation with no small-business set-aside. On the grant side, NIST awarded SIM a project grant starting January 1, 2024 with completion December 31, 2025 to organize and implement a training event for early-career metrologists from national metrology institutes across the Western Hemisphere, including technical lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on learning modules designed to improve measurement capabilities and validate laboratory services supporting international standards development and trade infrastructure.

Two awards (combined potential value $50 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in that window. Recent spending through obligation exceeds the combined potential value by 566 percent, indicating historical carryover activity or amendment activity on prior-year awards not fully captured in the current ceiling line. SIM's federal footprint is specialized and stable — institutional support for a specific international standards and measurement-capacity mission centered exclusively on a single agency relationship.