Federal contractor · BRIDGEWATER, NJ

MESSER LLC

MESSER LLC received $20.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 128 awards (−18% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $154.8M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($19.4M).

Obligations · FY2026: $20.5M
New awards: 128
Sole-source: 3.5%
Single offer: 97%

UEI: XZVSS9VZW3G5
Parent company: MESSER INDUSTRIE GMBH

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $20.9M in FY2026 together.

MESSER LLCBRIDGEWATER, NJ · Family page
Reported parent$20.5M
LINDE GAS ESPANA, S.A.PUCOL, ESP
Reported parent$339.2K
LINDE GMBHPULLACH, DEU
Reported parent$126.2K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

6.5MFY2017
8.7MFY2018
8.1MFY2019
10.5MFY2020
11.9MFY2021
15.8MFY2022
29.4MFY2023
18.2MFY2024
25.1MFY2025
20.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$19.4M95%
18 awards
Defense Logistics Agency$695K3.4%
104 awards
United States Mint$271.8K1.3%
3 awards
National Institutes of Health$69.5K0.3%
2 awards
Department of the Navy$31.7K0.2%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Fuel$19.8M97%
Other equipment & supplies$677.5K3.3%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition100%
US 39% · $20.7M
Sole-source awards3.5%
US 30% · $712.7K
Single-offer competitions97%
US 8.8% · $19.9M
Urgency justifications0.0%
US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Defense Logistics Agency$409.2K
Department of Defense · 8 awards
United States Mint$271.8K
Department of the Treasury · 1 awards

Largest awards

DELIVERY ORDER FOR LIQUID NITROGEN FOR STENNIS SPACE CENTER (SSC) AS DESCRIBED ON KENNEDY SPACE CENTER'S (KSC'S) BASE CONTRACT.$19.2M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hancock County, MS· Fuel· Jul 2, 2024 – Sep 24, 2026· 80SSC024FA014
BULK DEWAR HELIUM$16.8M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Somerset County, NJ· Fuel· Jan 17, 2023 – Jun 29, 2026· 80MSFC23FA013
DELIVERY ORDER FOR GASEOUS HELIUM REQUIRED FOR STENNIS SPACE CENTER (SSC) AS DESCRIBED ON KENNEDY SPACE CENTER'S (KSC'S) BASE CONTRACT.$14.3M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hancock County, MS· Fuel· Oct 4, 2022 – Jan 20, 2026· 80SSC023FA004
SSC DELIVERY ORDER (DO) FOR GASEOUS HELIUM (GHE)$6.8M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hancock County, MS· Fuel· Sep 18, 2025 – Sep 24, 2026· 80SSC025F0011
NASA AGENCY-WIDE SUPPLY OF GASEOUS AND LIQUID HELIUM WITH MESSER FOR THE NASA BALLOON OPERATIONS CONTRACT AT THE COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC BALLOON FACILITY (CSBF).$3.1M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Somerset County, NJ· Fuel· Oct 1, 2025 – May 21, 2026· 80GSFC26F0007
HELIUM PURCHASES FOR NASA BALLOON OPERATIONS CONTRACT AT CSBF$2.9M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Somerset County, NJ· Fuel· Sep 22, 2023 – Nov 18, 2025· 80GSFC23FA060
DELIVERY ORDER FOR THE BULK PURCHASE OF HELIUM FOR MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER.$2.7M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Somerset County, NJ· Fuel· Sep 30, 2025 – Sep 24, 2026· 80MSFC25F0064
DELIVERY ORDER FOR LIQUID OXYGEN FOR STENNIS SPACE CENTER (SSC) AS DESCRIBED ON KENNEDY SPACE CENTER'S (KSC'S) BASE CONTRACT.$2.5M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hancock County, MS· Fuel· Jul 2, 2024 – Sep 22, 2026· 80SSC024FA015

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

Sub-contracts: $132.5K (2 subawards)

2 primes

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$72.5K55%
LEXINGTON, MA · 1 subaward
SIERRA SPACE CORP$60K45%
LOUISVILLE, CO · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $266.5K received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $785.1K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $132.5K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $4.8M reported

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$3.5M
LEXINGTON, MA · 67 subawards · Scientific research and development services
FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$690.2K
GREENVILLE, SC · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$364.5K
FORT WORTH, TX · 3 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 9 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

LINDE INC.$53M−14% in FY2026
DANBURY, CT · 25 entities · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Basic chemical manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Basic chemical manufacturing
AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC$330.8M−15% in FY2026
ALLENTOWN, PA · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Basic chemical manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Basic chemical manufacturing
COSMODYNE, LLC$11.7M+17,409% in FY2026
SEAL BEACH, CA · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Basic chemical manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of MESSER LLC (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

MesserAI match · 98%

Lobbying · 2025: $160K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $560K

Lobbying by year

2023$160K
4 reports
2024$160K
4 reports
2025$160K
4 reports
2026$80K
2 reports

Top issues

Natural resources14 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)7 reports
Manufacturing5 reports
Energy and nuclear4 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code3 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)3 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Cassidy & Associates, Inc.$560K
14 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 4346 · Chips and Science Act2 reports
117th Congress · Became law · 2023–2024
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
S. 1642 · SEMI Investment Act2 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025

4 of 14 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.