Award NoticePosted Mar 14, 2025

Liquid Helium Supply Services

Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage
Awarded
NAICS
325120
Value
$3.2M
Solicitation
1333ND25CNB190006
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6830
Place
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Contact
Tony Schmidt (tony.schmidt@nist.gov)

No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1333ND25CNB190006 in this department, oldest first.

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Solicitation
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  • Mar 14, 2025 · this notice
    Award Notice
    AIRGAS USA, LLC · $3.2M

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What the notice says

Synopsis of award NOTICE Contract Number: 1333ND25CNB190006 Title: Liquid Helium Supply Services at the Gaithersburg Campus located in Gaithersburg, MD Agency/Office: National Institute of Standards & Technology Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg Campus, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Building 101 Awardee: Airgas USA, LLC. (UEI: W4D2BU3BXLK7) Award Value: Base Period: $923,500.00 Total Contract Value: $3,212,400.00 Classification Code: 6830 � Gases: Compressed & Liquified NAICS Code: 325210 � Industrial Gas Manufacturing Description(s): This is an… (show all)

Award Notification Synopsis of the above contract action, prepared in accordance with FAR 5.3, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only notification of award of the subject contract. The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) has made award for the Liquid Helium Supply Services at the Gaithersburg Campus in Maryland. This acquisition is a performance-based contract, solicited, evaluated, awarded, and administered using the Commercial Item procedures of FAR Part 12 and FAR Part 13, for management, supervision, labor, materials, equipment, and supplies. The contractor under the awarded contract is responsible for the efficient, effective, economical, and satisfactory operation, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, and minor repairs of equipment and systems located within the property line of the aforementioned federal building. The Government is awarding a single Firm-Fixed Price contract with contract line items for recurring services and with corrective maintenance service and emergency service contract line items for additional and above standard services. Additional services may be ordered at the discretion of the Government for work relating to the operations, maintenance and repair or upgrade of the covered facilities within the Scope of Work, but not covered in the basic services of the contract (i.e. under the firm-fixed price contract line items). This is a Performance-Based Service Contract, This procurement was posted publicly on SAM.gov on January 2, 2025 through January 29, 2025 under solicitation 1333ND25QNB190001 to promote competition to the maximum extent practicable in accordance with FAR 13.104. The procurement was solicited as Full and Open Competition. The NAICS code for this project is 325210, �Industrial Gas Manufacturing,� and the size standard is 1,000 employees. This procurement is awarded on a competitive basis for commercial services pursuant to Part 12 and FAR Part 13 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Award of the Contract has been made to the proposal offering the Best Value to the Government and based upon the evaluation factors and evaluation scheme as detailed in the Request for Proposals. Past Performance was among the evaluation factors for award. The period of performance is a 1-year base period from April 1, 2025 through arch 31, 2026, with two (2) 1-year option periods. A FAR 52.217-8 extension Option is also included. The solicitation and award notifications are available to download via this website only (https://www.sam.gov/). National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg Campus, Building 101 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Who won similar work

6 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Commerce (all)), same product/service code (PSC) 6830.

Single-winner award sizes (6): middle half $53K to $142K, median $85K; range $32K to $1.3M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
GENERAL AIR SERVICE & SUPPLY CO. Denver CO 80204 USA1$1.3MAug 31, 2026
Cross Nation Enterprises LLC1$150KSep 16, 2026
Messer LLC1$116KSep 19, 2025
UNITED STATES WELDING, INC.1$54KJun 30, 2025
GREEN LANTERN, LLC1$53KJun 24, 2025
CENTRAL WELDING SUPPLY COMPANY1$32KSep 20, 2025

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  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Commerce, Dept of (DOC) since 2024 (2 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Commerce, Dept of (DOC) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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  • 373 rules from the department in the last 12 months
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Market

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  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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