MEP National Network Open Supplier Scouting Opportunities
There are currently 44 open supplier scouting opportunities for U.S. manufacturers seeking domestic suppliers for various items. Please let us know if you need more information or want to bid on any of the items listed below.
Updated: July 25, 2024
Scouting Number
Scouted Item
Deadline
Description
Opportunity 2024-163
Wheelchair Brake
July 27, 2024
Wheelchair Brake – 3D printed parts – Nylon Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) 3D Printed Parts Our client is developing a new wheelchair brake product and is evaluating manufacturing costs. Given this, Techhelp is reaching out to manufacturers to obtain quotes for the attached parts.
Opportunity 2024-168
LiFePO4 Battery cells
July 28, 2024
Currently, we use 38120S 3.2V 10Ah LiFePO4 Battery cells with 10C high discharge rate. The brand that they are often sold under is “Headway”. I’m including a page from a retailer of these cells for your reference. We buy them directly from the manufacturer in China currently. These cells fail at a rate up to 100% per shipment that we receive from them. We’re not looking for another supplier of these exact same cells, but a different cell manufacturer entirely.
Opportunity 2024-165
Additive Manufacturing (3D printed) parts
July 28, 2024
Additive Manufacturing (3D printed) parts using the HP MultiJet Fusion process to manufacture a number of proprietary components
Opportunity 2024-123
Industrial Diesel Generator
July 28, 2024
Diesel generator must be manufactured in the United States. The cost of the components of the industrial diesel generator that are mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States must be greater than 55 percent of the total cost of all components of the industrial diesel generator. See additional comments section for instructions on how to determine the total cost of the components. This is a Request for Information, not currently an active project. There is no Request for Quote at this time. We are looking for manufacturers that currently produce a BABA compliant product AND manufacturers that could modify the product to be BABA compliant. we are trying to identify capabilities before designing around a specific identified product.
Opportunity 2024-124
Solar Panel
July 28, 2024
Solar panels must be manufactured in the United States. The cost of the components of the solar panels that are mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States must be greater than 55 percent of the total cost of all components of the solar panel. See additional comments section for instructions on how to determine the total cost of the components. This is a Request for Information, not currently an active project. There is no Request for Quote at this time. We are looking for manufacturers that currently produce a BABA compliant product AND manufacturers that could modify the product to be BABA compliant. This is an attempt to identify capabilities before designing around a specific identified product.
Opportunity 2024-181
Electrolyzer Manufacturer
August 1, 2024
Electrolyzer Manufacturers: We are seeking companies that manufacture electrolyzer stacks. Electrolyzer R&D Institutes: Any university/engineering organization focused on R&D efforts for electrolyzer stacks. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION. RFQs will be presented based on the scouting results.
Opportunity 2024-186
Phosphate Sensor
August 1, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) a multidisciplinary environmental research laboratory that provides scientific understanding to inform the use and management of Great Lakes and coastal marine environments. By measuring active Phosphorus in the water, the GLERL will be able to refine in their HABs prediction model. Additional sensors similar in form, fit, and function to ClearWater Sensors phosphate sensors are needed to integrate into the existing system.
Opportunity 2024-187
32 oz Plastic Bottles
August 1, 2024
A client is looking for a plastic bottle manufacturer due to low bottle inventory. It’s a 32oz High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic bottle used to store milk.
Opportunity 2024-188
Logger Module System
August 1, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), Engineering Development Division (EDD) The NOAA Prawler gives trusted near real-time data to scientists and is equipped with a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth), oxygen sensor, and fluorometer. A non-Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) logger module system similar in form, fit, and function to the AML-3 is required to use as a comparison to this data during longer deployment times.
Opportunity 2024-191
Anemometer
August 1, 2024
Estimates eddy-covariance air-sea fluxes from ships and uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) in various parts of the global oceans need to measure high-frequency 3-dimensional wind along with other variables. Gill 23 R3-50 3D Research Sonic Anemometers are essential components of the sensor packages for surface flux measurement.
Opportunity 2024-166
Heated Bicycle Grips
August 2, 2024
Manufacturing heated bicycle grips, injection molding and electronics
Opportunity 2024-180
Doping Services for Silicon Wafers
August 2, 2024
We are looking for doping services for silicon wafers. The wafers will have SiN and SiO2 on them. We are interested in either implant or diffusion (either solid source or POCl3). If implant, we also need the drive in to be done. We only need phosphorous. We are not interested in academic labs since we want to only use a clean furnace. We prefer 3-inch round wafers, and 2-inch round is OK. Larger wafers are doable, but will require us to make changes to the rest of the process. Since our order is small, we can’t go to a TSMC for example. We can supply the wafers or they can be made by vendor.
Opportunity 2024-192
Power Supply – 100 kW Active Front End Cubicle
August 07, 2024
For our projects in the USA, we are looking for qualified suppliers to produce a 100 kW Active Front End Cubicle. This cubicle needs to be water-cooled and include specific power cabling and control requirements as detailed below
Opportunity 2024-193
Power Supply – Inverter Cubicle
August 07, 2024
For our projects in the USA, we are looking for qualified suppliers to produce an Inverter Cubicle. This cubicle needs to be water-cooled and include specific power modules and transformers as detailed below.
Opportunity 2024-194
High Voltage (HV) Transformer and PCB Assembly
August 07, 2024
For our projects in the USA, we are looking for qualified suppliers to produce HV Transformers and PCB Assemblies. These components need to include specific features and components as detailed below.
Opportunity 2024-195
| Control Cabinet and Power Distribution Panel (PDP) |
August 07, 2024
For our projects in the USA, we are looking for qualified suppliers to produce Control Cabinets and Power Distribution Panels (PDP) with specific requirements as detailed below.
Opportunity 2024-206
Boiling/Melting Point Tester
August 07, 2024
A Boiling/Melting point tester is a device that determines the minimum temperature that a liquid needs to be to either start to boil, transitions from liquid to gas, or melts, transitions from solid to liquid. This information is needed to support OSHA regulations and is used to identify the properties of materials. The samples are slowly heated until they reach the transition zone for that material. This transition is recorded both empirically and visually using a video recording. This information is used to support OSHA safety citations. https://www.mt.com/us/en/home/products/Laboratory_Analytics_Browse/melting-point-apparatus/instruments/mp90-melting-point-system.html
Opportunity 2024-207
Flash Point Tester
August 7, 2024
A Flash Point Tester is a device that determines the minimum temperature that an organic liquid with give off sufficient vapor to ignite in air.
Opportunity 2024-208
Dust Layer Ignition Temperature Tester
August 7, 2024
A Dust Layer Ignition Temperature Tester is a device that determines the auto ignition temperature of a layer of dust.
Opportunity 2024-203
TB3 Syphoning Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge
August 8, 2024
The HyQuest TB3 is used for measuring rainfall and precipitation in urban and rural locations. The gauge delivers high levels of accuracy across a broad range of rainfall intensities, and is an ideal device for cold climates. The gauge includes a dual output 24 V DC reed switch allowing for output redundancy or the addition of a second data logger. It incorporates two water outlets at the bottom allowing for water collection and data verification. he National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Pacific Region Headquarters (PRH), Systems Operations Division (SOD), Inouye Reginal Center (IRC) provides weather, water and climate data, forecasts, warnings, and impact-based decision support services for the protection of life and property and enhancement of the national economy. As part of this mission, the IRC operates and maintains Hydrological Surface Observation Instrumentation System (HSOIS) data collection platforms (DCPs) throughout the region. The IRC requires syphoning tipping bucket rain gauges like the HyQuest Solutions TB3 to support the HSOIS data collection platforms.
Opportunity 2024-204
Solar Inverter
August 8, 2024
Equivalent to a SolarEdge SE10000H Inverters
Opportunity 2024-205
Solar Power Optimizers
August 8, 2024
Equivalent to S500B SolarEdge Optimizers
Opportunity 2024-210
Humidity and Temperature Equipment
August 8, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Earth Systems Research Laboratories (ESRL), Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) manages four historical atmospheric baseline observatories (ABOs) in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antarctica with long continual historical records of atmospheric chemistry and meteorological measurements. In addition to the ABOs, GML also manages a tall tower atmospheric measurement network (AMN) that is currently being enhanced with new meteorological sensors to supplement other atmospheric chemistry related observation data in order to improve data analysis capabilities. All of these sites use the Vaisala meteorological sensors and components for data collection, and new equipment like the Vaisala brand instruments is needed to maintain the existing network.
Opportunity 2024-175
Lead Core Bullets
August 9, 2024
An ammunition company expanding into Montana is looking for a source of two types of lead bullets for incorporation into its rifle and pistol cartridges. Specific types: 9mm – 115gr RN/FMJ 9mm – 124gr RN/FMJ – these can be plated or jacketed construction .223 – 55gr FMJ – will be jacketed construction only
Opportunity 2024-176
Brass cases/shells for pistol and rifle ammunition
August 9, 2024
An ammunition company expanding into Montana is looking for a source of shell casings for incorporation into its rifle and pistol cartridges. The two sizes needed are 9mm and 5.56mm.
Opportunity 2024-177
Gun powder for ammunition manufacturing
August 9, 2024
An ammunition company expanding into Montana is looking for a source of single or double base gun powder for incorporation into its rifle and pistol cartridges. 9mm – BE-86/W231/Power Pistol/True Blue/Titegroup/or equiv. – 250-300lbs/mo .223 – H-322/H-335/H4895/IMR3031/AA2230/or equivalent – 800-1,000lbs/mo
Opportunity 2024-178
Primers for pistol and rifle rounds
August 9, 2024
An ammunition company expanding into Montana is looking for a source of primers for incorporation into its rifle and pistol cartridges.
Opportunity 2024-160
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) Sensor Fabrication on a Flexible Needle
August 10, 2024
The goal is to mill grooves on a flexible medical needle and glue fiber optic cables into those slots. The fiber optic cables will have Fiber Bragg Grating sensors etched into them. We need to use a medical quality glue to glue the fiber optic cables into the slots. We will provide the needles, the fiber optic cables, and the glue. See attached drawings for more details.
Opportunity 2024-183
Termination, Port
August 11, 2024
TERMINATOR, PORT, MFG# VTLTR
Opportunity 2024-184
Solid Rocket Motors
August 16, 2024
Also looking for sources that have the infrastructure to make Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs), even if they have not specifically considered SRMs before. This is to be part of the Cab-3A or Cab-3B, a family of rockets designed to put CubeSats into Low Earth Orbit individually
Opportunity 2024-185
Laminated Spunbond Non-Woven Fabric
August 16, 2024
Laminated Spunbond Non-Woven Fabric that has a grip to the lamination
Opportunity 2024-190
Polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) Raw Resin and PTFE Resin Tape
August 16, 2024
A Montana company would like to identify manufacturers of PTFE Tape (made of Resin 602AX) and Raw PTFE F-107 Resin for use in manufacturing OEM fluoropolymer products.
Opportunity 2024-212
Double-pulse Nd:Yag Laser
August 23, 2024
Double-pulse Nd:YAG laser similar in form, fit and function to Evergreen EVG00200 for use in Particle Image Velocimetry studies in a meteorological wind tunnel.
Opportunity 2024-152
Ammonium Hydroxide Solution, 28-30%
August 30, 2024
HS Code: 28.14, CAS #: 1336-21-6, liquid ammonium hydroxide solution. *HS Codes (https://www.trade.gov/harmonized-system-hs-codes) *Search Tool (https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/)
Opportunity 2024-153
Ammonium Phosphate Dibasic Crystals
August 30, 2024
Harmonized System (HS) Code: 28.35, CAS #: 7783-28-0, crystalized Ammonium Phosphate Dibasic. *HS Codes (https://www.trade.gov/harmonized-system-hs-codes) *Search Tool (https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/)
Opportunity 2024-154
Citric Acid Anhydrous
August 30, 2024
HS Code: 2918.14, CAS #: 77-92-9. Powdered or crystalline citric acid anhydrous. *HS Codes (https://www.trade.gov/harmonized-system-hs-codes) *Search Tool (https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/)
Opportunity 2024-155
Glycerol
August 30, 2024
Harmonized System (HS) Code: 1520.00, CAS #: 56-81-5, Vegetable glycerol *HS Codes (https://www.trade.gov/harmonized-system-hs-codes) *Search Tool (https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/)
Opportunity 2024-156
Potassium Phosphate Monobasic
August 30, 2024
Harmonized System (HS) Code: 28.35, CAS #: 7778-77-0. crystallized potassium phosphate monobasic *HS Codes (https://www.trade.gov/harmonized-system-hs-codes) *Search Tool (https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/)
Opportunity 2024- 157
Magnesium Sulfate (Epsom Salt)
August 30, 2024
HS code: 2530.20.0000, CAS# 10034-99-8, crystallized Epsom Salt *HS Codes (https://www.trade.gov/harmonized-system-hs-codes) *Search Tool (https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/)
Opportunity 2024-158
Thyme Oil
August 30, 2024
HS Code: 29.07, CAS# 89-83-8, oil from Thyme plant
Opportunity 2024-196
Mini-split air conditioning and heat pump systems
September 07, 2024
Single zone split-DX (a type of heating and cooling system that uses two separate units to heat and cool your home) air conditioning system.
Opportunity 2024-197
Hot Water Circulation Pump
September 07, 2024
Pump shall be lead-free and listed for use in a domestic hot water system. Pump shall circulate domestic hot water through the hot water piping system back to the domestic water heater. Pump shall be manufactured to be installed in a commercial application and shall come with a 3-year warranty.
Opportunity 2024-198
Pressure Reducing Valve
September 07, 2024
Domestic Water Pressure Reducing Valve – Pressure reducing valve shall reduce high upstream pressure to constant lower downstream pressure. The reducing setpoint shall be adjustable. Pressure reducing valve shall be comprised of two separate valve assemblies to precisely regulate during both high flow and low flow conditions. The pressure reducing valve shall be lead-free and listed for domestic water applications. The valve shall be manufactured for commercial applications and shall come with a 3-year warranty.
Opportunity 2024-199
Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) system
September 07, 2024
Multi-zone air source heat pump system with heat recovery capability.
Opportunity 2024-200
Automatic Transfer Switch
September 07, 2024
Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) shall automatically switch power from normal source to generator source within 10 seconds.
Opportunity 2024-201
Circut Breakers
September 07, 2024
Circuit breakers shall provide overcurrent protection to circuits
Opportunity 2024-202
Dry-type Isolation Transformer
September 07, 2024
Equipment utilized to reduce harmonics within circuits for harmonic sensitive equipment (tel/data equipment typically).
Opportunity 2024-209
Elevator Casting
September 07, 2024
We are looking for steel casting suppliers to produce a AISI 4318/4320 steel castings to meet API 8C/API 7K requirements for use in handling equipment in the oil & gas industry. Material specification MS-004.
Opportunity 2024-211
Exit Signs and Emergency Battery Units (EBUs)
September 07, 2024
emergency lighting to illuminate path of egress and shown direction of egress travel
Opportunity 2024-213
Disconnect Switches
September 08, 2024
Power equipment used to quickly interrupt power to equipment it is serving.
Opportunity 2024-214
Fire Alarm Control Panel
September 08, 2024
An addressable fire alarm control panel is the building’s central fire alarm unit that can identify and communicate with each individual fire alarm device connected to the system. The devices can be initiating devices such as smoke detectors, heat detectors, duct smoke detectors, manual pull stations, tamper switches and flow switches. The devices can also be notification devices such as speaker/strobes, remote alarm indicators, bells, and beacons.
Opportunity 2024-215
Floor Box/Poke-Thru device
September 08, 2024
Box located in floor to provide power/data/av etc. to desired locations where wall application is not available.
Opportunity 2024-216
Diesel Generator
September 08, 2024
Equipment that can generate on site electrical power in the event of a electrical power outage.
Opportunity 2024-217
Pad-mounted Liquid Filled Transformer
September 08, 2024
Medium voltage transformer step down to building utilization voltage to serve the new proposed building.
Opportunity 2024-218
Panelboards
September 08, 2024
Distribution equipment for power distribution throughout the building. Sizing varies per panel amperage, voltage and quantity of overcurrent protection devices.
Opportunity 2024-219
Switchboard
September 08, 2024
Main electrical service equipment for distribution electrical power throughout the building. Consists of pull sections, distribution sections, metering instrumentations and cabinets, contacts, and overcurrent protection devices.
Opportunity 2024-179
Horsehair from the Tail and Mane
October 10, 2024
1. Processed horsehair, in the form of ropes, to be purchased by a buyer and further processed for use as mattress cushioning 2. Processed horsehair, curled, combed, loose, and for use as mattress cushioning 3. Unprocessed horsehair, cut from the tail or main and still straight, to be processed by the buyer for use as mattress cushioning”
Opportunity 2024-030
Fans for fan coils
February 06, 2025
These items are intended to be used for residential and commercial appliances. We are looking for radial fans and fan coils.
Opportunity 2024-029
Coils for fan coils
February 06, 2025
We are looking for water to air heat exchangers, made of copper tubes and aluminium fins. They are intended to be used in fan coils for residential and commercial appliances.
Opportunity 2024-063
Solar Panels, Electric Vehicle Chargers, Electric Vehicles
March 07, 2025
Our grantees (across all states) are required to comply with BABA regulations, so we are doing research on what BABA-compliant solar, electric vehicles (EVs), and EV charging stations would comply. In accordance with FAR 10.002(b) (2) (i), this Supplier Scouting Opportunity is for the purpose of conducting market research. This is not a Request for Proposal/Quotation and does not represent a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation/award a contract.