Ideal Vacuum Products, LLC

Ideal Vacuum Products, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, manufactures and supplies specialized vacuum equipment, pumps, compressors, and related components to federal agencies as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) and subcontractor on research and development programs. The vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open procurement, with Total Small Business set-asides appearing on roughly 15% of recent prime awards; no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA certifications are present in the source record. The company operates under NAICS 333912 (Pump and Pumping Equipment Manufacturing) and PSC 6640 (Compressors and Vacuum Pumps), with over twenty years of documented federal supply history.

Ideal Vacuum's customer concentration is dispersed across thirty-two federal agencies, with no single customer exceeding 16% of award count. The top five agencies by award count — the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (16 awards, $146 thousand combined potential value), NASA Shared Services Center (15 awards, $596 thousand), NASA Goddard Space Center (14 awards, $193 thousand), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (10 awards, $108 thousand), and the Smithsonian Institution (8 awards, $44 thousand) — account for 62% of awards. When ranked by combined potential value, NASA Shared Services Center leads at $596 thousand, followed by Goddard at $193 thousand, Navy ONR at $146 thousand, NIST at $108 thousand, and Smithsonian at $44 thousand; together these five represent 77% of combined potential value across all awards. Recent capability work includes a $249 thousand sole-source purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center for a SCALPSS (Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies) vacuum chamber with custom stainless steel imaging windows (awarded August 5, 2025), a $144 thousand purchase order for a modular 2x2x2 cubic foot vacuum chamber with approximately 80 commercial off-the-shelf components under FAR 12.102(a) commercial items authority (awarded September 18, 2026), and a $125 thousand Total Small Business set-aside order from TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for a vacuum chamber leakage system (awarded September 7, 2023).

Ideal Vacuum's primary footprint comprises purchase orders under NASA Shared Services Center and agency-specific blanket purchase agreements; the top vehicles include a blanket purchase agreement NNG12LD62Z (1 task order, $34 thousand combined potential value), Seaport Next Generation (1 task order), and an Indefinite Delivery Contract FA865120D0001 (1 task order). The vendor sits as a subcontractor on General Atomics inertial confinement fusion target research and development programs (multiple sub awards in 2024 and 2026 for vacuum pumps and compressors), The Aerospace Corporation engineering services for vacuum hardware supporting thruster testing (August 2025), Aerodyne-Sgt Engineering Services on the MIST II multidisciplinary engineering vehicle for vacuum chamber components (January 2026), and Raytheon on SM-3 Block IIA guided missile and miniature self-defense missile programs for fasteners, adapters, couplers, and valves (June 2024). The vendor also appears as a sub-recipient on federal research grants, including a Southwest Research Institute grant sub-award for vacuum equipment (September 2024) and a Johns Hopkins University grant sub-award for a vacuum pump supporting an advanced multispectral infrared microimager program (April 2024).

Recent activity shows fluctuation rather than sustained growth — two awards in 2022, five in 2023, twelve in 2024, seven in 2025, and five in 2026 (year-to-date through September). Combined obligated dollars ($2.8 million) exceed combined potential value ($1.4 million) by a factor of two, indicating that many awards have been fully invoiced. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months ($144 thousand), presenting minimal recompete exposure in that window. Ideal Vacuum's capability portfolio remains anchored to vacuum equipment — pumps, compressors, chambers, helium detectors, leak detectors, and specialty components — sold primarily to civilian research agencies (NASA, NIST, Smithsonian) and defense laboratories (Navy ONR, TACOM). The vendor's sole-source justifications consistently cite in-stock availability, economical pricing, technical support, and patented or unique design features; performance of manufacture occurs entirely in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

We sell and service vacuum pumps. We stock new and rebuilt pumps by Alcatel, Edwards, Leybold, Varian, & Welch. These products include vacuum pumps, vacuum gauges, and vacuum fittings.