WASHINGTON, September 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has selected three companies to supply 1.4 million liters of liquid helium and 87.7 million standard cubic feet of gaseous helium for use at facilities across the agency. The contract for unlimited delivery commitments includes several delivery orders at fixed fixed prices. The award winners include:
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Messer LLC by Bridgewater, New Jersey
- Linde Inc. out Danbury, Connecticut
NASA needs helium to support the International Space Station program as well as the Space Launch System and the Orion programs that support artemis, the agency’s missions to the moon. Helium is an inert gas for purging hydrogen systems, a pressurizing agent for ground and in-flight fluid systems, a cryogenic agent for cooling various materials, and a raw material used in precision welding applications.
The contract begins Saturday October 1stwith a two-year base period followed by an option period that would extend the contract if exercised September 30, 2025. The total value of the contract for the base plus option period is approximately $149 million.
The agency uses helium at its facilities across the country, including the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Glenn Research Center and Armstrong Test Facility in Cleveland; Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California; Kennedy Space Center (including Cape Canaveral Space Force Station) in Florida; Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas; Langley Research Center at Hampton, Va; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Michoud meeting place in New Orleans; Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Wallop’s Flight Facility, Virginia; and test facility White Sands, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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