SolicitationPosted Jul 20, 2026·Responses due Aug 11, 2026

Liquid Helium Delivery

Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage
Open solicitation
NAICS
325120
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
1333ND26QNB190395
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
6830
Place
Boulder, CO, USA
Contact
Shawn Borisow (shawn.borisow@nist.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1333ND26QNB190395 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
None posted
Solicitation
  • Jul 20, 2026 · this notice
    Solicitation
  • Jul 21, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Aug 22, 2026 to Oct 5, 2026, middle of the range Sep 6, 2026.
Measured from 67 past solicitations at National Institute of Standards and Technology that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Jul 20, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

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

  • Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
  • Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
  • Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.

What the notice says

PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHMENTS FOR DETAILED INFORMATION The Contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, services, and facilities to supply LHe in 100, and 250-liter contractor-owned dewars, on an as-needed basis.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST), same product/service code (PSC) 6830 and NAICS 325120.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $133K to $1.7M, median $150K; range $116K to $3.2M.

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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 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.