Airgas Usa, LLC

Airgas Usa, LLC North Division, doing business as Airgas, supplies compressed gases, cryogenic liquids, and medical-grade gases to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price delivery orders and blanket purchase agreements. The vendor is a large, foreign-owned subsidiary of Airgas Inc., itself a subsidiary of Air Liquide, and competes in full-and-open procurements without set-asides across 68 distinct federal customer agencies.

Airgas's federal footprint centers on industrial gas supply—compressed oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, and specialty mixtures—delivered to military installations, Veterans Affairs medical centers, research laboratories, and civilian agency facilities. Recent representative work includes a $1.854 million single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded October 1, 2025, by the Defense Logistics Agency Energy to supply aviator's breathing oxygen (Type II, MIL-PRF-27210) and liquid nitrogen to 26 military locations across the Northeast through December 31, 2030, with ancillary services including tank rentals, equipment installation, and expedited delivery. A $609,120 blanket purchase agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, procures bulk liquid nitrogen for laboratory operations. The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation has issued multiple BPA calls for high-purity specialty and industrial gases to research facilities in Durham, North Carolina and Cincinnati, Ohio, with ceiling values ranging from $15,586 to $249,944. The Department of Veterans Affairs operates multiple regional Integrated Service Network contracts for bulk oxygen, portable medical-grade liquid oxygen, and comprehensive medical gas supply to VA Health Care Systems, with individual delivery orders valued between $22,334 and $245,097.

Customer concentration tilts heavily toward Defense Logistics Agency Energy—2,051 awards representing $18.9 million in combined potential value—reflecting Airgas's core role as an ongoing consumables supplier to military aviation and logistics operations. The Department of the Army Medical Command, by contrast, anchors the largest dollar concentration: 77 awards valued at $136.8 million combined potential value, driven by bulk oxygen and medical gas supply to Army medical facilities. Naval Sea Systems Command (487 awards, $4.8 million), the Environmental Protection Agency (192 awards, $3 million), and the Defense Health Agency (60 awards, $25.5 million) comprise the next tier. Top parent vehicles include three single-award indefinite delivery contracts under the Defense Logistics Agency Energy framework—IDC SPE60120D1516 with 567 task orders ($1.5 million combined value), SPE60120D1507 with 374 task orders ($222 thousand), and SPE60117D1524 with 301 task orders ($499 thousand)—reflecting the fragmented, high-volume transactional nature of gas supply operations where dozens of small delivery orders sustain ongoing military and federal operations.

Activity has remained roughly flat to declining: 379 awards in 2024, 332 in 2025, and 84 in the first six months of 2026, with combined potential value across all awards standing at $228.1 million. Thirty-two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2.4 million and represent recompete exposure. Airgas subcontracts to Oshkosh Defense LLC (providing consumables, fuel, and supply support for FMTV A2 armored vehicle orders and LVAD vehicle configurations), Metro Machine Corp (CVN 76 ship repair materials), and Peraton Inc. (environmental testing services for NASA Goddard and sounding rocket program support), though subcontract activity represents only 3% of the vendor's prime-heavy portfolio.

The vendor's category footprint reflects pure commodity gas supply: 2,841 awards under PSC Gases (Compressed and Liquefied), 71 under Medical Gases, and the remainder scattered across propellant fuels, equipment rental, and specialty chemicals. Airgas competes across both defense and civilian customer bases without access restrictions, holding no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other set-aside certifications and generating approximately $39.4 million in obligated dollars against $228.1 million in potential value across the tracked portfolio.