Praxair Distribution Mid-Atlantic, LLC

Praxair Distribution Mid-Atlantic, LLC, doing business as Gts-Welco, supplies compressed and liquefied medical and specialty gases—oxygen, nitrogen, helium, xenon, krypton, and halocarbon compounds—to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor under blanket purchase agreements and purchase orders, with no set-aside participation. The vendor is a for-profit limited liability company and manufacturer of goods, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and operates as a subsidiary of Welco-Cgi Gas Technologies LLC.

Praxair Distribution Mid-Atlantic's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in two customer agencies that together account for 88% of combined potential value across all awards. The Defense Health Agency dominates with 28 awards worth $14.2 million in combined potential value, anchored by a $6.5 million single-award BPA running through September 2030 under which the vendor places frequent BPA calls—most recent awards include a $19.5 million call in January 2026, a $23.1 million call in October 2025, and a $24.7 million call in May 2025. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical holds 30 awards worth $13.2 million combined potential value. The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology ($10.4 million across 42 awards), the Defense Logistics Agency Energy ($2 million across 55 awards), and the Office of Naval Research ($876 thousand across 179 awards) round out the top five. By award count alone, the Office of Naval Research dominates at 179 awards, but individual Navy purchase orders for xenon and krypton gases carry much smaller ceiling values in the $11,000–$22,000 range, revealing a split between high-value medical-gas BPA calls from Defense Health Agency and low-value specialty-gas purchase orders from the Navy.

Recent activity shows consistent but modest volume—six awards in 2021, four in 2023, five in 2024, and seven in 2025—with only two awards recorded in 2026 through mid-April. Four awards with combined potential value of $78 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's portfolio spans 673 total awards across 44 distinct customer agencies. Praxair Distribution Mid-Atlantic competes in open, full-and-open procurements; no set-aside designations appear across the award history. Work is performed principally in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Bethesda, Maryland, supporting military healthcare facilities with medical gas supply, tank rentals, bulk oxygen delivery, and associated equipment and services. Top NAICS categories are Industrial Gas Manufacturing (454 awards) and Natural Gas Distribution (56 awards); the primary PSC is Gases: Compressed And Liquefied (379 awards). Combined potential value across all awards totals $46.5 million, with $19.4 million obligated to date (42% execution rate).