SAOC Medical Grade Bulk Liquid Oxygen 2021

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration established this master IDIQ for medical-grade bulk liquid oxygen service to seven Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, and 23) on March 3, 2016, with the last date to order closing on March 14, 2021—the vehicle is now closed to new orders.

The vehicle is no longer active for pursuit. Ordering ceased over five years ago, and the combined task-order potential value of $7.4 million has been nearly fully obligated at 98 percent. Activity peaked early in the vehicle's lifecycle: 52 orders were placed in 2016 and 56 in 2017, declining sharply to 11 orders in 2019 and 12 in 2020 before the ordering window closed. Of the 176 total task orders awarded, the most recent was placed on December 1, 2020.

Work under the vehicle consists of medical-grade bulk liquid oxygen supply, tank rental, tank fills, preventive maintenance, and related gases for VA medical centers and health care systems across the designated regional network. Individual task orders typically ranged from under $4 thousand to roughly $1 million, with firm fixed pricing across all awards. Typical task-order performance periods spanned one fiscal year or less.

Competition is concentrated between two primes. RAS Enterprises LLC holds 91 orders worth $5.5 million in combined potential value (approximately 74 percent of the vehicle's total value), while Irish Oxygen Company holds 85 orders worth $1.9 million (approximately 26 percent). No other contractors were awarded.

Customer concentration follows VISN boundaries. Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 placed the most orders at 32 for $3 million in combined potential value; VISN 16 follows with 37 orders for $1.3 million; and VISN 10 placed 33 orders for $876 thousand. These three VISNs account for roughly 65 percent of all task orders.

About two-thirds of task orders carried no set-aside designation (115 orders, 65 percent), while 32 percent were designated Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business competitive awards (57 orders) and 2 percent were SDVOSB sole-source (4 orders).

SAO central regional bulk oxygen for visns 9, 15, 16, 10, 11, 12, 23