RAS Enterprises LLC

RAS Enterprises LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and HUBZone-certified firm headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi, supplies medical gases (compressed and liquid oxygen, nitrous oxide, nitrogen, specialty gases), bulk oxygen delivery systems, cylinder maintenance and rental services, and waste management to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a 100% prime contractor. The vendor competes almost exclusively under SDVOSB set-asides across its federal portfolio; 1,528 awards tracked in the source span October 2008 through October 2026, with 45% of combined potential value ($282.3 million) obligated. RAS operates with no subcontractor engagement—it delivers all work in-house from its Gulfport headquarters and satellite performance locations nationwide.

RAS's customer base concentrates heavily on the VA system. The top five customer agencies by award count and potential value are all VA Veterans Integrated Service Networks: VISN 9 leads both counts with 196 awards and $58.8 million combined potential value, followed by VISN 19 ($20.8 million across 74 awards), VISN 7 ($19.6 million across 22 awards), VISN 2 ($19.4 million across 66 awards), and VISN 20 ($18.3 million across 80 awards). VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin places 204 awards valued at $15.8 million. These six customers together account for 45% of recent awards and represent 48% of combined potential value, signaling extreme customer concentration within a single federal agency. The vendor has established relationships across 47 distinct agencies, but non-VA work represents a small fraction of total activity—named recent work includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (dry ice purchases, $237 thousand through March 2027; $221 thousand BPA call), the Federal Correctional Complex Butner (liquid oxygen for inmate portable oxygen units), the Southeastern Power Administration (liquid oxygen for Table Rock Dam, $950 thousand BPA through June 2031), the Defense Health Agency (medical gas cylinder refill and rental at Fort Gordon, Georgia, $238.8 thousand), the Armed Forces Retirement Home (waste removal, $48.9 thousand), and the U.S. Coast Guard.

RAS's parent vehicle footprint is entirely VA-controlled. The five largest vehicles by task-order volume are: Indefinite Delivery Contract VA240C17D0008 (93 task orders, $5.2 million), SAOC Medical Grade Bulk Liquid Oxygen 2021 (91 task orders, $5.5 million), IDC 36C77620D0017 (67 task orders, $2.3 million), IDC 36C26321D0014 (57 task orders, $4.7 million), and IDC 36C77619D0005 (57 task orders, $3 million). Recent prime IDVs held by RAS include single-award SDVOSBs with VISN 6 ($513 thousand through September 2031 for medical-grade gas cylinder lease), VISN 17 ($950 thousand through November 2030 for medical gases and cylinders), VISN 8 ($1 million through September 2030), VISN 15 ($92 thousand through September 2030), VISN 7 ($1.48 million through February 2031 for bulk oxygen and tank rentals), VISN 16 ($1.48 million multiple-award SDVOSB set-aside through March 2030 for non-hazardous waste management), VISN 5 ($900 thousand through March 2030 for oxygen tank rentals), and VISN 20 ($2.5 million single-award BPA through June 2030 for bulk oxygen services). RAS also holds a non-set-aside Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Southeastern Power Administration ($950 thousand through June 2031) and a single-award IDC with the Department of Veterans Affairs for VISN 23 medical gases ($1.53 million through December 2026, now expired).

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months totals 50 awards with combined potential value of $12.2 million, concentrated in the VISN portfolio where multiple base periods and option years run through 2026–2030. The vendor's award activity has remained steady over five years—120 to 138 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, declining to 78 through October 2026—reflecting consistent ordering cadence against standing IDVs rather than new competitive wins. NAICS concentration is extreme: 1,321 of 1,528 awards fall under Industrial Gas Manufacturing (NAICS 325120); 149 awards are Solid Waste Collection. PSC codes track the same profile—882 awards for Gases: Compressed and Liquefied, 277 for Medical Gases, 138 for Housekeeping/Trash Collection, 50 for Medical and Surgical Instruments and Equipment, and 30 for Commercial and Industrial Gas Cylinders.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue from federal service contracts above $150,000 totaled $6.2 million across FY2022–FY2025, trending downward from $2.6 million (1.8 FTEs) in FY2022 to $851 thousand (0.3 FTEs) in FY2025. SCI coverage is a strict subset of RAS's federal activity because most awards are goods purchases (oxygen, cylinders) rather than reportable services; the vendor holds 36 prime SCI records with zero sub-hours engagement. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI service work median around $673 per hour, with a 10th-percentile floor of $330 per hour and 90th-percentile ceiling around $1,823 per hour, consistent with commodity-gas supplier staffing and logistics delivery labor. The vendor operates as a wholly owned prime across all tracked work—no named subcontractors appear in the portfolio, and no sub-hours share is reported in SCI data.

RAS Enterprises' federal footprint is a classic small disadvantaged business medical-gas and waste-services supplier locked into long-term SDVOSB-set-aside IDVs with the VA's regional networks. Competitive exposure is low because the vendor competes in set-aside vehicles against other SDVOSBs; there is no evidence of full-and-open competition. Customer concentration risk is acute—loss of a single VISN 9 or VISN 19 renewal would eliminate $79.6 million in combined potential value. The recompete window of $12.2 million over twenty-four months represents a material recompete threat if any of the mature IDVs are opened to broader competition or rebid as full-and-open. For federal contractors evaluating teaming or competitive positioning, RAS is a pure-play SDVOSB medical-gas incumbent with deep VA roots, minimal product or service diversification, and zero subcontractor leverage.

RAS is a SDVOSB/HUBZone Small Business, wholly owned by Randy Soboul. our competencies are Bulk/Industrial Gases, Grounds Maintenance, Program Management and Quality Control RAS was named a named a "TOP 100 Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business by Diversity Business.com.