Roberts Oxygen Co Inc.

Roberts Oxygen Co Inc., a for-profit manufacturer and distributor of compressed and cryogenic gases based in Derwood, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) supplying bulk and cylinder gases, liquid nitrogen, carbon dioxide, dry ice, oxygen, and associated tank rental and maintenance services to federal agencies without set-aside posture — the vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements across civilian and defense agencies. The company holds a single named subsidiary, Cryo-Express LLC.

Roberts Oxygen's federal footprint is dominated by the National Institutes of Health ecosystem. The Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations accounts for 131 awards totaling $115.7 million in combined potential value and anchors the vendor's largest customer concentration by dollars; the supplier holds a $10 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with this office for laboratory and medical gases, cryogenic liquids, and related services through September 2026. Within NIH, Roberts Oxygen holds multiple indefinite-delivery and blanket-purchase vehicles across the National Institute on Aging ($465.7 million single-award IDC for liquid nitrogen through September 2028), National Institute on Drug Abuse ($250 thousand IDIQ through May 2028), and routine business orders with the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the NIH Clinical Center for bulk gases, keepfull services, and emergency equipment replacement. Beyond NIH, the Defense Health Agency (37 awards, $16.7 million potential value) places recurring orders for medical gases, dry ice, and cylinder rentals; the Transportation Security Administration holds a $234.9 thousand BPA for ultrahigh-purity laboratory gases at Atlantic City facilities; and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Department of the Interior place task orders for medical gases and specialty gases. Recent representative prime work includes a $521.9 million FDA contract awarded August 2024 (total small business set-aside) for telemetry monitoring and refill of liquid nitrogen through August 2029 with 147,000 annual gallons of medical-grade supply; a $352.2 million Northeast Area USDA contract (total small business set-aside) awarded September 2023 for bulk liquid oxygen delivery through February 2029 with monthly demurrage and tank maintenance; a $236.4 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order (total small business set-aside) for bulk liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide at Indian Head, Maryland through December 2026; and a $1.04 million National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences purchase order for consolidated laboratory gases and cryogenic services through July 2031.

Customer concentration runs heavily toward the NIH ecosystem and defense health systems — the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, Defense Health Agency, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and NIH's constituent institutes account for 77% of combined potential value across the award portfolio. The top five customers by potential value cover $148.7 million of the $191.4 million total, a 77% share. Activity has fluctuated year-over-year (56 awards in 2022 to 97 in 2024, declining to 19 awards year-to-date in 2026), with 44 awards (combined potential value $3.8 million) completing within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete pressure.

Roberts Oxygen's vehicle portfolio centers on the $10 million NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations BPA, the $465.7 million National Institute on Aging IDC for liquid nitrogen, a $4.5 million Department of Agriculture industrial-gas IDIQ for the Northeast Area, a $2.75 million National Institute of Standards and Technology BPA for compressed gas supply and delivery at Gaithersburg and Boulder campuses, a $500 thousand U.S. Geological Survey BPA for compressed and liquefied gases, and subordinate blanket purchase agreements with Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 ($606.8 thousand IDC for medical gas and cylinder rentals), the Transportation Security Administration ($234.9 thousand BPA for laboratory gases), and the Defense Health Agency ($350 thousand BPA for medical-grade oxygen tanks). The two largest Navy IDCs (N0018906D0062 and N0018911D0020) carry placeholder ceilings and low task-order values per order, indicating mature, high-volume commodity supply relationships. Across the portfolio, Roberts Oxygen fields 3,750 prime awards concentrated in two primary NAICS categories — Industrial Gas Manufacturing (2,365 awards) and Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers (636 awards) — and paired PSC codes for Gases: Compressed and Liquefied (2,191 awards) and Commercial and Industrial Gas Cylinders (499 awards).

Roberts Oxygen carries a minimal subcontract footprint; the source records a single sub-award to Cianbro Corporation on a Navy dry-dock refueling complex project for furnish of gases and welding supplies. The vendor's business is structured as a prime-direct play to federal agencies rather than a sub-reliant model.

The company has maintained a federal presence since 2001 and demonstrates consistent capability in supplying mission-critical cryogenic and laboratory gases to the research, medical, and operational infrastructure of the federal government across 77 distinct customer agencies, with strongest concentration in NIH and defense health customers.