Nippon Sanso Matheson, Inc.

Nippon Sanso Matheson, Inc., doing business as Aeris, is a foreign-owned prime contractor supplying compressed and liquefied industrial, medical, and specialty gases to federal defense and civilian agencies on full-and-open competitive awards without SBA set-asides. Headquartered in Warren, New Jersey, the company operates under NAICS 331314 (Industrial Gas Manufacturing) and PSC codes 4140 and 4210, competing almost exclusively as a direct supplier without subcontractors across a portfolio of 9,024 prime awards totaling $242.4 million in combined potential value.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in a single agency. Defense Logistics Agency Energy dominates the portfolio at 88% of award volume (7,955 awards) and 74% of combined potential value ($180.3 million), establishing Aeris as a mission-critical supplier of compressed and liquefied gases to U.S. military installations and federal facilities nationwide. The next-largest customers by volume are the Naval Sea Systems Command (140 awards, $2.6 million), the Air Force (95 awards, $6 thousand), and the Army Installation Management Command Pacific Region (60 awards, $2.1 million). By potential value, NASA Johnson Space Center ranks second with $5.8 million across 13 awards, followed by the Indian Health Service ($3.2 million across 56 awards) and the Veterans Health Administration ($3.1 million across 12 awards). The top five customer agencies by potential value account for 80% of the vendor's federal business.

Aeris delivers nitrogen, liquid oxygen, aviator's breathing oxygen, liquid nitrogen, liquid argon, and propellant pressurization gases to DLA Energy under five core indefinite delivery contracts. The top vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60121D1539, carries 1,455 task orders with $4.4 million combined potential value. SPE60121D1534 has generated 1,131 task orders worth $3.7 million, SP060011D1508 has produced 781 task orders valued at $3.3 million, SPE60117D1556 has 773 task orders for $1.9 million, and SPE60120D1512 has yielded 721 task orders for $2.3 million. A fifth-year firm fixed-price requirements contract with DLA Energy (SPE601-25-R-0310), awarded September 1, 2025, carries a $4.29 million ceiling through June 30, 2030, covering delivery of aviator breathing oxygen (approximately 3.28 million units), liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen, and liquid argon to 44 locations across the U.S. Southeast Region at Air Force bases, Naval air stations, Army depots, Marine Corps air stations, and Coast Guard facilities. A newly awarded single-award indefinite delivery contract (SPE601-26-R-MWST) with DLA Energy Aerospace Business Unit covers specialty gases for the Midwest Region with a $1.503 million ceiling through June 30, 2031. Aeris also holds a $1.756 million delivery order under NASA's Agency-wide Acquisition of Nitrogen and Oxygen 4 (NANO 4) contract for liquid propellant fuels and oxidizers to Johnson Space Center.

Activity has remained stable year over year, ranging from 740 to 809 annual awards from 2022 through 2025, with 409 awards recorded in 2026 (a partial-year count through October). Only eight awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months, combining $2.9 million in potential value. The vendor's sub-award footprint is negligible at 0.2% of recent activity—only 24 sub-awards across the nine-year dataset—with work performed as a subcontractor under Pantex plant management and operations (Pantexas Deterrence) and annual argon supply to NASA JSC building support (contracting prime unnamed in source). The NAICS concentration is pronounced: 8,499 of 9,048 awards fall under Industrial Gas Manufacturing, with welding and soldering equipment (91 awards) and synthetic dye and pigment manufacturing (31 awards) as distant secondary categories. PSC concentration mirrors customer concentration, with compressed and liquefied gases accounting for 6,507 awards and liquid propellant fuels and oxidizers for 2,027 awards. Representative prime work includes a $24.7 thousand purchase order from the Drug Enforcement Administration for industrial gas supply (October 2026), a $288.6 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from the Indian Health Service for medical gas services at Pine Ridge Hospital, South Dakota, extending through September 2031 with annual oxygen consumption at approximately 1,000,000 cubic feet, a $988.9 thousand purchase order from Indian Health Service for oxygen and air filters at Cheyenne River Health Center in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, extending through July 2031, and a $40 thousand BPA call from the Department of Defense Pacific Region for CO2 gas deliveries to United States Army Garrison Hawaii swimming pools (July 2026).