OCONUS - UAE Gaseous Helium (GHe)
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy is seeking a contractor to provide Propellant Pressurizing Agent Helium within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for military and aerospace applications. The solicitation is for a full and open competitive procurement of gaseous helium meeting MIL-PRF-27407E Type I, Grade A specifications, with a specific National Stock Number (NSN: 9135-01-665-9490). The contractor will be responsible for filling government-provided compressed gas tube bank trailers, ISO tube module containers, and High-Pressure Cylinder Assemblies with helium, including all necessary management, tools, equipment, and labor. The procurement will utilize Lowest Price Technically Acceptable source selection procedures, with the award being made to the offeror determined to provide the best value to the government. The pre-solicitation notice indicates the Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued on or about March 12, 2025, with potential offerors encouraged to contact Tony Howard or Willard Ramseur for additional information.
The contract is not set aside for any specific small business category and will be competed among all qualified suppliers. The period of performance is five years, specifically from September 20, 2025, to September 19, 2030, as a Firm Fixed-Price Requirements Contract under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 for commercial items. The government will handle transportation of trailers to and from the supplier's fill point, and the contract will support various customers throughout the Middle East Region. The procurement leverages statutory authority under 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1), which allows for non-competitive procedures when the agency's needs can only be met by a supplier with unique capabilities. While specific budget ranges are not disclosed, the contract will cover helium filling services across multiple container types, with contractors required to fill containers to pressures between 2400-4500 psi within 14 days of delivery order issuance.
SPE60125R_GHE Defense Logistics Agency Energy
2/25/25, 3:35 PM SPE601-25-R-0311 Solicitation_OCONUS - UAE Gaseous Helium (GHe)
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy has issued a solicitation (SPE601-25-R-0311) for filling bulk helium containers with compressed gas helium in the United Arab Emirates. The contract is a Firm-Fixed Price Requirements type seeking a contractor to provide Propellant Pressurizing Agent Helium that meets Type I, Grade A specifications of MIL-PRF-27407E. The government requires an estimated 243,000 cubic feet of helium to be filled in containers at pressures between 2,400 and 4,500 psi. The procurement will be awarded using the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable source selection process, which means vendors will be evaluated primarily on meeting technical specifications and offering the most competitive pricing. Proposals are due by April 11, 2025, at 3:00 PM Central Daylight Time, with the solicitation targeting helium container filling services for customers in the UAE and surrounding Middle East region.
The solicitation does not have a specific small business set-aside designation and is open to all qualified industrial gas manufacturers. The contract has a five-year performance period from September 20, 2025, to September 19, 2030, covering the filling of multiple container types that must comply with CGA and DOT standards. Contractors will be required to maintain containers in a ready-to-fill state and complete container fillings within 14 days of receiving a delivery order. The place of performance is specifically in the United Arab Emirates, with an emphasis on supporting military and defense logistics operations in the Middle East region. While the exact award value is not specified, the requirements suggest a significant operational need for compressed helium with precise technical and logistical specifications.
SPE60125R0311 Defense Logistics Agency Energy
3/12/25, 3:42 PM Helium
The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division located in China Lake, California, intends to procure 64 helium-filled tanks through a sole-source procurement from It's A Gas, Inc. The contract, identified by solicitation number N6893625Q5027, is for 244 CO Helium UN1046 with associated fill and canister requirements. Interested firms believing they can fulfill the contract requirements may submit a written response to donell.e.duenassims.civ@us.navy.mil within 5 days of the notice's publication. The response must include a capability statement demonstrating the firm's experience, assets, background, and ability to perform the work without compromising quality, accuracy, reliability, or schedule. All responding firms must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database and maintain an active registration status.
The procurement is not set aside for any specific business category and will be awarded on an other than full and open competitive basis. The specific contract is directly sourcing 64 helium-filled tanks as a direct replacement of existing equipment. Firms must be prepared to submit a notarized letter identifying their authorized Entity Administrator, which is now required for SAM registration. Potential contractors should be aware that processing additional registration information may take several days, and the government cannot award a contract to an entity without an active SAM registration. The procurement falls under the NAICS category 325120 for Industrial Gas Manufacturing and PSC category 6680 for Liquid and Gas Flow Measuring Instruments, with a posted date of March 13, 2025, and a response deadline of March 19, 2025.
N6893625Q5027 Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center
3/13/25, 6:58 PM Renewal Natural Gas/Alternative Methane
Added: Jan 08, 2010 3:31 pm
Sources Sought:
Renewable Natural Gas/Alternative Methane
Synopsis: The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is planning to replace fossil fuel natural gas used at its two research campuses located near Golden, Colorado with natural gas from renewable sources.
The purpose of this sources sought notice is to obtain an expression of interest and capabilities of potential subcontractors and suppliers.
Background: NREL currently has conventional natural gas fueled combustion equipment. As part of NRELs mission to promote renewable energy use and to meet federal mandates to reduce fossil fuel consumption NREL is seeking renewable sources of natural gas derived from biodigesters, landfills, wastewater treatment plants, thermal gasification of biomass, or some other means. The intent is for renewable methane gas to be produced at the feedstock source and transmitted to NREL using the natural gas pipeline grid. In concept renewable gas would be similar to purchasing natural gas at the well head and transporting it to the end user.
NREL anticipates issuing a request for proposal in early 2010 to qualified sources. In order to determine qualifications please provide the following:
1) Brief background of capabilities.
2) Previous relevant experience.
3) Demonstrated ability to provide NREL with 30,000 dekatherms (dekatherm = 1 million BTU) per year of renewable natural gas/alternative methane and future ability to provide increased renewable natural gas/alternative methane. Annual usage is expected to increase to 100,000 dekatherms by 2014 at the NREL campus expands.
4) Delivery capabilities.
5) Evidence of risk and risk management plan.
6) Compliance with applicable California Climate Action Reserve protocol
a. Organic Waste Digestion Project Protocol
b. Landfill Project Protocol
c. Livestock Project Protocol
7) Primary contact person name, address, telephone numbers facsimile number, and email address.
THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. VERBAL REPLIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. ALL INQUIRIES MUST BE IN WRITING (HARD COPY OR E-MAIL).
Responses to this notice should not exceed 20 pages. Attachments must be less than 20 MB in size.
Responses must be received at NREL by Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time either by e-mail or in writing to the following:
Deborah Bullard, Senior Supervisor
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
MS 1693, 1617 Cole Blvd.
Golden, CO 80401-3393
or
deborah.bullard@nrel.gov.
RNGAMcgdjb Department of Energy Office of Science
1/8/10, 3:31 PM Compressed and specialty gases
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart F12.6 in conjunction with Subpart 13.5, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2020-01.
This is a requirement for certain liquid and compressed gases to be delivered to the CPSC National Product Testing and Evaluation Center and the Sample Storage Facility on an as-needed basis. CPSC anticipates awarding a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for a 5-year period of performance. The required items are described in the attached requirements document.
Delivery and acceptance shall be to the CPSC point of contact included in the contract and in accordance with Local Clause 1 B for the delivery of any items to CPSC.
The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. In addition to the requirements of FAR 52.212-1, the quote must prominently display the offeror's Taxpayer Identification number, CAGE code and DUNS number, as well as contact information for the offeror's point of contact for the quote. SAM.gov registration is required to be considered for award. The quote shall be submitted via email to the Contract Specialist at sjohnson@cpsc.gov.
The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition, and the evaluation criteria to be included in paragraph (a) of that provision are as follows:
Technical Acceptability – Quotes will only be deemed technically acceptable if they include all required items and meet the requirements of the Statement of Work.
Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, if the annual SAM registration has not been completed. If the SAM registration has been completed, Offerors shall only submit paragraph (b) if there are applicable exceptions to the current registration.
The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition.
The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following additional FAR clauses cited in FAR 52.212-5 are applicable to this acquisition: (1) 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government (Sept 2006), with Alternate I (Oct 1995); (4) 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards (Oct 2018); 8) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government’s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment. (Oct 2015); (9) 52.209-9, Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility Matters (Oct 2018); (22) 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation (Jul 2013); (25) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (June 2003); (26) 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (Jan 2020); (27) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Apr 2015); (28) (i) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Sept 2016); (29) (i) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Oct 2015); (30) (i) 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jul 2014); (31) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans (Feb 2016); (32) 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (Dec 2010); (33) (i) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Jan 2019); (42) 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving (Aug 2011); (48) 52.225-5, Trade Agreements (Oct 2019); ((49) 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (June 2008); (55) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management (Oct 2018).
The following local clauses are also applicable to this requirement:
LC 1B CONTRACTOR’S NOTE - DELIVERIES TO THE CPSC NATIONAL PRODUCT TESTING LABORATORY SITE, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
Delivery Address:
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Product Testing Laboratory
5 Research Place
Rockville, MD 20850
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Laboratory facility is located in Rockville, MD. Deliveries are to be made to the loading dock area which is accessible from the parking area entrance on Research Place on the east side of the building. Do not enter the parking area from Research Court on the North side of the facility as there may not be sufficient room to maneuver and back up to the loading dock area on the east side of the building.
Deliveries may not be left outside the building or loading dock, unless specifically directed by appropriate CPSC staff. All deliveries shall be considered "inside deliveries" in accordance with the instructions below. When scheduling deliveries, the purchase order number shall always be referenced and all packages shall clearly display the Purchase Order Number on the outside of the cartons and/or packages and include the packing slip.
ATTENTION GOVERNMENT VENDOR:
A. DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS
1. DELIVERY INSTRUCTION FOR SMALL ITEMS
Deliveries should be made between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday (except holidays). Deliveries outside these hours require prior arrangements.
Contacts:
Andrew Stadnik, Lab Director, 301-987-2037 x1 OR 301-706-6902
Allyson Tenney- 301-987-2769
Aaron Orland – 301-987-2248
Michael Nelson – 301-987-2752
For the Furniture, Chair, Exercise Equipment, and IT Equipment
Contacts:
Cary Windsor – (301) 504-7203 (Cell: (202) 302-9327)
Andy Stadnik – (301) 706-6902
2. DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS FOR LARGE OR HEAVY ITEMS:
Large or heavy items must be delivered directly to the loading dock. If delivery cannot be made to the loading dock directly or via the leveling device and requires off-loading the item from the delivery vehicle to the ground, then deliveries of such large or heavy items should be scheduled 24 hours in advance and should be made between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday (except holidays). Contact information is the same as above to arrange for CPSC lift truck operators or other lifting and handling support needs for the delivery.
B. BILLING INSTRUCTIONS
Pursuant to the Prompt Payment Act (P.L. 97-177) and the Prompt Payment Act Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-496) all Federal agencies are required to pay their bills on time, pay interest penalties when payments are made late, and to take discounts only when payments are made within the discount period. To assure compliance with the Act, vouchers and/or invoices shall be submitted through the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP).
ELECTRONIC INVOICING AND PAYMENT REQUIREMENTS
Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) is a secure web-based electronic invoicing and payment information service available to all Federal agencies and their supplier by the U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service. IPP allows Federal agencies and their suppliers to exchange electronic purchase orders, blanket POs, invoices, and payment information in one easy to access web portal. This service is free of charge to government agencies and their suppliers, including services and support.
(a) Definitions. As used in this clause-
(1)”Payment request” means a bill, voucher, invoice, or request for contract financing payment with associated supporting documentation. The payment request must comply with the requirements identified in FAR 32.905(b), “Payment documentation and process” and the applicable Payment clause included in this contract.
(b) The Contractor shall submit payment requests electronically using the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP). Information regarding IPP is available on the Internet at www.ipp.gov. Assistance with enrollment can be obtained by contacting the IPP Production Helpdesk via email ippgroup@stls.frb.org or phone (866)973-3131.
PAYMENT AND INVOICE QUESTIONS
For payment and invoice questions, contact the Accounts Payable Branch at (304) 480-8000 option 7 or via email at AccountsPayable@fiscal.treasury.gov.
Customer Service inquiries may be directed to Adriane Clark at AClark@cpsc.gov.
OVERPAYMENTS
Accounts Receivable Conversion of Check Payments to EFT: If the Contractor sends the Government a check to remedy duplicate contract financing or an overpayment by the government, it will be converted into an electronic funds transfer (EFT). This means the Government will copy the check and use the account information on it to electronically debit the Contractor’s account for the amount of the check. The debit from the Contractor’s account will usually occur within 24 hours and will be shown on the regular account statement.
The Contractor will not receive the original check back. The Government will destroy the Contractor’s original check, but will keep a copy of it. If the EFT cannot be processed for technical reasons, the Contractor authorizes the Government to process the copy in place of the original check.
C. INSPECTION & ACCEPTANCE PERIOD
Unless otherwise stated in the Statement of Work or Description, the Commission will ordinarily inspect all materials/services within seven (7) business days after the date of receipt. The CPSC representative responsible for inspecting the materials/services will transmit disapproval, if appropriate, to the contractor and the Contracting Officer. If other inspection information is provided in the Statement of Work or Description, it is controlling.
(End of clause)
D. Questions about this requirement are due via email to sjohnson@cpsc.gov no later than February 25, 2020 at 10am eastern time. Please contact the Contract Specialist, Sheryl Johnson, with any inquiries at sjohnson@cpsc.gov.
61320620Q0014 Consumer Product Safety Commission
2/12/20, 10:39 AM