Doing Business with Los Alamos National Laboratory

Due to the nature of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work, doing business may require that vendors meet specific quality, safety and security standards, including ISO and NQ1 Quality Standards and security clearances (depending on the products or services purchased).

Business Opportunities

Business opportunities are where we post competitive procurements normally greater than our competitive threshold, which is currently $150K. The use of competition to obtain the goods and services necessary to operate the Laboratory is essential in ensuring that the Laboratory obtains fair and reasonable prices and is a good steward of public funds. For more information and to see a listing of our current opportunities, visit our Business Opportunities page.

Vendors

General vendor information includes links to various pages full of information that all businesses, large and small, need to be aware of. Here, vendors can find information on what the Laboratory does and does not procure, information on invoicing and payments, vendor forms used in the procurement process at the Laboratory, and much more.

Small Business Support & Commitment

Los Alamos National Laboratory maintains a strong institutional commitment toward small business subcontracting as formalized in Prime Contract Appendices E and M. Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrates this by working as an institution and engaging managers to take an active role to increase procurement opportunities. For more information on our support and commitment to small businesses, visit our Support and Commitment to Small Businesses page.

Small Business

Visit the Small Business page to get general information on working with Los Alamos National Laboratory, our Getting Started page to help you understand our registration requirements, and much more. After viewing the website and doing some research, feel free to contact the Small Business Program Office at (505) 667-4419 with any questions.

Small Business Outreach

The Small Business Program Office (SBPO) knows the importance of small business outreach events. The Lab partners with various organizations to support small business development and growth in accordance with the objectives of the Small Business Administration and the Lab's Prime Contract requirements. Small Business outreach events allow the SBPO to meet with small businesses to share forecasted business opportunities, discuss Lab programs, and what capability and capacity small businesses have that would support Lab programmatic requirements. Information is then brought back to the Laboratory and shared with procurement specialists and technical requestors.

In addition, all small business contact information is stored in the Supplier Master Database in order to enable the SBPO staff and/or procurement specialists to find firms by their respective North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes for incorporation into the bidder lists when needed.