Po NNX11CF23PBEAM POWER TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Overview
Award facts
- Period of performance
- Aug 16, 2011 to Sep 29, 2011
- Ended
- Modifications
- 5
- Latest action Aug 16, 2011
- Contract type
- Po
- PIID NNX11CF23P
Description of requirement
SPACE TELECOMMUNICATIONS REQUIRE AMPLIFIERS THAT ARE EFFICIENT, HIGH-POWER, WIDEBAND, SMALL, LIGHTWEIGHT, AND HIGHLY RELIABLE. CURRENTLY, HELIX TRAVELING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIERS (TWTA) ARE THE TECHNOLOGY OF CHOICE. CONVENTIONAL HELIX TWTAS EMPLOY CIRCULAR ELECTRON BEAMS. RECENTLY, LIGHTWEIGHT CIRCULAR-BEAM HELIX TWTAS HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATED WITH POWER OUTPUT IN THE RANGE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED WATTS AND OVERALL EFFICIENCY IN THE RANGE OF 40 TO 60 PERCENT. DESPITE THESE ADVANCES, THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL VALUE IN FURTHER IMPROVEMENT ACROSS ALL OF THESE AREAS. BEAM POWER TECHNOLOGY (BPT) PROPOSES A NOVEL ELLIPTIC-BEAM TWTA WHICH IS HIGHLY EFFICIENT (75%) AND HAS 500 W OF CW POWER, REDUCED WEIGHT, LOWER VOLTAGE AND AN EXPECTED 15+ YEAR LIFETIME. THE AVERAGE POWER OPERATION IS AT A BACK-OFF OF -6 DB FROM SATURATION. THE LINEARITY IS -35 DBC. THE PHASE I OBJECTIVE IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF AN ELLIPTIC-BEAM HELIX TWTA WHICH SUBSTANTIALLY EXCEEDS THE PERFORMANCE LEVELS OF CONVENTIONAL HELIX DEVICES. IN PHASE II, BPT WILL COMPLETE THE ENGINEERING DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A PROTOTYPE TARGETING EVENTUAL DEPLOYMENT INTO SATELLITE APPLICATIONS.
Dates and value
- Award date
- Signed on Feb 18, 2011
- Potential end of performance
- Sep 28, 2011
Source: Federal Procurement Data System contract actions as published by SAM.gov and USAspending.gov; latest action recorded Aug 16, 2011. View on USAspending · Recipient on SAM.gov
Recipient
Business types and certifications
As represented in SAM.gov at the time of the action.
Agency and place
Awarding and funding
- Awarded by
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
- Funded by
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
Place of performance
- Place of performance
- Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 01824-4469
- Congressional district (place of performance)
- MA-03As reported at the time of the action
Classification and competition
Classification
- Product or service (PSC)
- AR11R&D-AERO & SPACE TECH-B RES (research and development)
Competition
- Extent competed
- Full and open competition after exclusion of sourcesD
- Solicitation procedures
- Negotiated proposal/quoteNP
- Set-aside
- Small business set aside - totalSBA
- Contract pricing
- Firm fixed priceJ
- Offers received
- 4
Solicitation and notices
- Solicitation ID
- SBIR11PH01(as reported)
Contract details
- Subcontracting plan
- Plan not requiredB
- Major program
- High-efficiency, high-power ka-band elliptic-beam
- Service Contract Act labor standards
- No
- Government-furnished property
- Transaction does not use GFE/GFPN
- Bundled requirement
- Not a bundled requirementD
- Consolidated requirement
- No
- Undefinitized action (terms not final)
- No
- Performance-based service acquisition
- Yes - service where PBA is used.Y
Transaction history
Modification history
- Base award
- Feb 18, 2011Base obligation at award: $8,334
- Latest action
- Aug 16, 2011 — Supplemental agreement (within scope)Modification 5
- Latest substantive action
- Aug 16, 2011 — Supplemental agreement (within scope)Modification 5
- Latest funding action
- Jun 17, 2011 — Funding onlyModification 4; obligation change +$54,824; funding only: changes obligations, not scope
- Actions by type
- Base award1
- Funding only4
- Supplemental agreement (within scope)1
All contract data
All contract data
Every other field reported for this award, as of its latest reported action
Competition
- Evaluation preference
- No preference used
- Simplified procedures for commercial items
- No
Pricing and financing
- Paid by purchase card
- No
Socio-economic and policy
- Recovered materials and sustainability
- No clauses included and no sustainability incluC
- EPA-designated product
- Not requiredE
- Research program (SBIR/STTR)
- Small business innovation research program phase i actionSR1
- Walsh-Healey Act (materials and supplies)
- No
- Construction wage rates (Davis-Bacon)
- No
Place and origin
- Domestic or foreign entity
- U.S. owned businessA
- Place of manufacture
- Not a manufactured end productC
Structure
- Award or IDV
- Award
- Award type
- PoB
- Awarding agency code
- 8000
- Awarding sub-tier code
- 8000
- Contracting office code
- NSSC0
- Transactions recorded under this award key
- 6
Funding
- Funding agency code
- 8000
- Funding sub-tier code
- 8000
- Funding office code
- JPL00