Kaplan Industries, Inc.

Kaplan Industries, Inc., a DOT-certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise based in Harrison, Ohio, manufactures and distributes technical-grade compressed gases and medical gases as a prime contractor exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency and the Department of the Navy, with no subcontract footprint across its federal award portfolio.

Kaplan Industries competes entirely full-and-open, with no SBA set-aside posture as a business designation, though two awards carry Total Small Business set-asides at the delivery-order level. The company is a for-profit corporate entity that has served as the federal prime contractor since at least 1982, with all 420 awards in the portfolio rendered as prime contracts or IDVs. Kaplan's capability portfolio centers on manufacturing and supplying technical oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, nitrous oxide USP, and compressed gas cylinders produced at its Harrison facility. Representative work includes a $420,768 delivery order from DLA Troop Support Medical for technical oxygen (June 2024), a $396,480 delivery order for technical oxygen (February 2023), and a $44,033.70 purchase order for nitrous oxide USP under a Total Small Business set-aside (July 2023). All customer agencies are parts of the Defense Logistics Agency system or direct DoD buyers.

Customer concentration is extreme and skewed toward medical supply. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical accounts for 167 awards and $38.6 million in combined potential value — 87% of all dollars in the portfolio. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 136 awards and $5.5 million, while the Defense Logistics Agency generic entity carries 77 awards with no specified value. Three other customer agencies — the Department of the Navy (5 awards), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (2 awards, $39 thousand), and the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (1 award, $6 thousand) — account for the remaining 8% of awards by count and a rounding error by value. The top two customers by potential value account for roughly 100% of combined potential value across the full portfolio, indicating zero diversification outside the DLA medical and aviation supply chains.

Kaplan holds a current single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Troop Support Medical awarded November 25, 2025, with a $14.57 million ceiling and completion through November 24, 2030. This vehicle replaces the prior IDC (SPE2DP20D0006) that ran through September 2025 and generated 20 task orders valued at $5.1 million. Historical parent vehicles include SPE2DP16D0001 (40 task orders, $3.6 million), SPE4A616D0123 (31 task orders, $1.9 million), and SPM20005D0006 (14 task orders, $3.3 million). The portfolio shows sustained activity under DLA IDCs, with delivery orders and purchase orders issued consistently for routine replenishment of medical gases to support defense medical programs and field logistics.

Activity has declined in recent years. Kaplan averaged 9 awards annually in 2022 and 2023, declined to 9 again in 2025, and carries only 1 award in 2026 (the new IDC awarded June 1, 2026). The portfolio spans four decades of federal work, but the bulk of recent transactional volume — individual delivery orders and purchase orders under IDC task order authority — consists of small-to-modest orders ($1,050 for carbon dioxide, $86 for compressed cylinders, $408,480 for oxygen) that track seasonal or rotational demand from DLA Troop Support Medical. No recompete risk appears imminent given the new November 2030 IDC completion date; the predecessor IDC expired September 2025, and DLA has already issued the replacement vehicle to Kaplan.

Kaplan Industries operates no subcontractor relationships on federal work — the vendor footprint is 100% prime delivery. The company manufactures and ships compressed gases directly from Harrison, Ohio and carries no identified teaming relationships or pass-through supplier arrangements.