Linde Korea Co., LTD

Linde Korea Co., LTD Sales Division, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, supplies aviator's breathing oxygen and technical-grade nitrogen to the U.S. Department of Defense as a prime contractor on a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, competing without set-aside designation on a full-and-open basis.

Linde Korea operates as a for-profit international organization headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and operates under NAICS 325120 (Industrial Gas Manufacturing) and PSC 6830-P (Gases: Compressed and Liquefied). The vendor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Linde Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of industrial gases and engineering services headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut. Linde Korea competes exclusively as a prime contractor—100% of its federal awards are prime contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles—with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

Linde Korea's federal work is concentrated almost entirely with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy: 306 of 315 awards (99% of award count) and $29.3 million of $30.3 million in combined potential value flow through DLA Energy. The remaining awards consist of six delivery orders from the Department of the Navy Installations Command ($17 thousand combined) and one award from the Department of the Army. Customer concentration by both volume and dollars tracks the same—DLA Energy dominates both metrics. The vendor's four-year award trajectory shows decline from 41 awards in 2022 to 10 in 2026 (year-to-date through mid-April), though the source captures only the first four months of 2026.

Linde Korea holds position on five named parent indefinite-delivery contracts. The primary vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60122D1501, awarded December 15, 2021, with a ceiling of $938,070.94 and ultimate completion September 30, 2026, under which 127 task orders carry $13.3 million in combined potential value. This single-award IDIQ covers aviator's breathing oxygen, technical-grade nitrogen, and associated non-recurring services (detention fees, tank maintenance) across the Pacific Area of Responsibility, with place of performance in South Korea and operational scope spanning South Korea, Japan, Guam, and Hawaii. The second-largest vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60119D1564 with 67 task orders valued at $7.7 million. A newer single-award vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60125R03XX, was awarded April 1, 2026, with a ceiling of $1.715 million and ultimate completion March 31, 2031, for procurement of liquid nitrogen and aviator's breathing oxygen with delivery to the Middle East.

Representative work includes a $11.418 million delivery order from DLA Energy on November 11, 2024, for aviator's breathing oxygen under the primary IDIQ (SPE60122D1501); a $288,248.68 order on April 2, 2025, for technical-grade nitrogen under the same vehicle; and multiple recurring monthly orders in the $1 thousand to $9.5 thousand range for both oxygen and nitrogen throughout 2022–2026. Individual delivery orders carry firm fixed-price terms with no set-aside designation and completion dates typically within two to three weeks of award. Since the primary IDIQ's inception in December 2021, DLA Energy has placed over one hundred cumulative delivery orders under the vehicle.

The category concentration reflects specialized industrial-gases production: 314 of 315 awards fall under NAICS 325120 (Industrial Gas Manufacturing), and 310 awards are coded to PSC 6830-P (Gases: Compressed and Liquefied). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $11.3 million (37% of combined potential value), indicating partial performance against ceiling authority and predictable invoice rates typical of commodity gas supply contracts.