Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.

Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. Continental Carbonic Products Division, a foreign-owned manufacturer of industrial and medical gases headquartered in Irving, Texas, supplies compressed gases, liquefied gases, dry ice, and related delivery services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 256 awards (99% of its recent federal footprint). The vendor competes exclusively on full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations and does not hold positions on government-wide vehicles or blanket purchase agreements of material scale.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on bulk oxygen delivery systems with telemetry monitoring and tank rental services, dry ice supply in pellet form for medical and research applications, and compressed and liquefied industrial gases (nitrogen, argon, helium, hydrogen, acetylene, carbon dioxide, propane) delivered in cylinders or via vacuum-insulated piping systems with bulk storage tanks. Representative prime work includes a $289.2 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VA Long Beach Healthcare System) for bulk oxygen delivery, tank rental, telemetry monitoring, and certificates of analysis through September 2025; a $327.6 thousand purchase order from the Defense Health Agency for bi-weekly dry ice pellet delivery (250 pounds per shipment) to Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Liberty, North Carolina through September 2026; and a $135.9 thousand purchase order from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service for compressed and liquefied gases including nitrogen, argon, oxygen, and helium with a 700-gallon bulk liquid nitrogen storage tank at the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research in Manhattan, Kansas through September 2030.

Customer concentration reflects medical and research facility spending across military health and Veterans Affairs systems. The top five customer agencies by award count cover 25% of awards, led by the Department of the Army Medical Command (23 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 (12 awards, $146 thousand). By potential value, the top five account for 57% of combined dollars: the Department of the Army Medical Command anchors the portfolio at $1.2 million, followed by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center ($1.1 million across 5 awards), the Defense Health Agency ($832 thousand across 9 awards), VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 ($697 thousand across 3 awards), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ($520 thousand across 8 awards). The vendor's top NAICS categories are industrial gas manufacturing (125 awards) and ice manufacturing (16 awards); top PSC codes are compressed and liquefied gases (52 awards) and laboratory equipment and supplies (43 awards).

Recent activity shows sporadic engagement: one award in 2021, one in 2022, a gap through 2023, five awards in 2025, and one in 2026 (most recently April 2026). The vendor holds minimal exposure on blanket purchase agreements, with only five task orders under BPA HDEC0512A0010 and four under BPA HT001415A0103. Three awards totaling $734 thousand reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity for competitors. The vendor operates as a prime in 256 recent awards and as a subcontractor to Southwest Research Institute on two 2025 sub-awards for hypersonics and special operations forces RDT&E programs involving argon and nitrogen storage vessels and related installation services.