Leybold USA Inc.

Leybold USA Inc., a for-profit corporation headquartered in Export, Pennsylvania, manufactures and supplies precision vacuum equipment—turbomolecular pumps, rotary vane pumps, thermal vacuum chambers, xenon thrusters, and related components—to federal research, aerospace, and defense customers as a prime contractor on full-and-open competitive purchase orders. The company does not hold SBA set-aside certifications and competes in the open market; 97% of its recent awards are prime contracts and only 3% are subcontract awards. Leybold has been registered in SAM.gov since 2001 and has maintained a federal customer base across five decades, with 229 total awards spanning 51 distinct agencies.

Customer concentration reflects Leybold's focus on aerospace and scientific research. NASA accounts for the largest dollar share—NASA Glenn Research Center holds 15 awards valued at $3.6 million combined potential value (53% of the vendor's recent portfolio), with an additional 15 awards from NASA's Shared Services Center worth $412 thousand. The Office of Naval Research ranks second by award count (21 awards, $926 thousand) but third by potential dollars; the gap signals that ONR awards tend to be lower-dollar equipment and repair orders rather than major system procurements. The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (16 awards, $161 thousand) and the U.S. Army's Materiel Command and Research Development and Engineering Command (11 awards, $72 thousand) complete the top five. These five agencies account for 34% of award count but 81% of combined potential value, indicating concentration in large prime contracts with NASA Glenn and smaller volume orders across the rest of the customer base.

Recent award examples demonstrate Leybold's capability mix. The September 2026 NASA Glenn definitive contract for $3.475 million covers a thermal vacuum chamber shell, thermal shroud, and thermal conditioning unit for the B339 Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory, with performance extending through May 2030 and requiring ASME BPVC Section VIII fabrication and fully welded non-sectional construction. The September 2024 Office of Naval Research purchase order for $590,800 procured a xenon thruster and related components for the Spacecraft Engineering Division. More typical are smaller equipment and repair orders: a $36,913 NASA turbo pump (March 2024 sole-source award), a $15,781 Shared Services Center rotary vane pump repair (August 2025), and a $12,442 Drug Enforcement Administration rough pump for forensic lab instrument repair (April 2025). Across recent years, work has remained relatively flat at two to seven awards per year from 2022 through 2026, with only one award facing completion inside the next twenty-four months ($21 thousand potential value), indicating minimal recompete risk in the near term.

Leybold's federal portfolio centers on PSC categories Compressors and Vacuum Pumps (86 awards) and Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (37 awards), with NAICS weight on Pump and Pumping Equipment Manufacturing (78 awards) and Air and Gas Compressor Manufacturing (33 awards). In its minimal subcontractor role, Leybold supplies vacuum systems and pumps to Fluor Marine Propulsion on Naval Nuclear Laboratory management and operations work (March 2026), to Raytheon on Romania production UCA pumps (September 2025), and to KBR Wyle Services on Navy goods and services contracts carrying combined incremental funding of $1.4 million (September 2024 and January 2024). The company also appears as a sub-supplier to The Aerospace Corporation and unnamed primes on NASA JSC engineering and scientific products work. No named GSA Schedules, GWACs, or multi-agency IDIQs appear in the vehicle portfolio; Leybold's work routes through agency-specific BPAs and direct procurement channels, predominantly with NASA, ONR, and NIST.