NASA Selects Plug Power, Inc. of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at agency facilities.
NASA's agency-wide liquid hydrogen supply grants are firm-fixed-price contracts that include multiple firm-fixed-price purchase orders that are critical to agency centers because they use liquid hydrogen in combination with liquid oxygen as fuel in cryogenic rocket engines and the commodity's unique properties support aeronautics development. The total value of the combined awards is approximately $147.2 million.
The contracts begin on Monday, December 1, and each consists of a two-year base period followed by three one-year option periods that, if exercised, would extend the contracts until November 30, 2030.
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will deliver approximately 36.5 million pounds of liquid hydrogen to NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida; NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; and NASA's Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, with a maximum contract value of approximately $144.4 million.
Plug Power, Inc. will deliver approximately 480,000 pounds of the commodity to NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Neil A. Armstrong Proving Ground in Sandusky, Ohio, for a maximum contract value of approximately $2.8 million.
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Tiernan Doyle
Headquarters, Washington
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202-358-1600
Amanda Griffin
Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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321-593-6244
