Sources SoughtPosted Sep 10, 2026·Responses due Sep 24, 2026

Request for Information/Sources Sought Notice for Providers/Suppliers of Liquid Nitrogen and Related Services

Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
325120
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
NIST-SS26-179
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
6830
Place
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Contact
Nina Lin (nina.lin@nist.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation NIST-SS26-179 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 10, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Sep 10, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 6, 2026 to Jan 15, 2027, middle of the range Nov 29, 2026.
Measured from 19 past early notices at National Institute of Standards and Technology that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 10, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

Please attached Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought Notice (SSN) for liquid nitrogen and related services, Draft SOW, and Estimated Price Table.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 325120.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
AIRGAS USA, LLC1$3.2MMar 14, 2025
Cross Nation Enterprises LLC1$150KSep 16, 2026
Messer LLC1$116KSep 19, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 3 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 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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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 372 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 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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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.