Roberts Oxygen Co Inc.

Roberts Oxygen Co Inc., a for-profit manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Derwood, Maryland, supplies compressed gases, cryogenic liquids, dry ice, welding supplies, and tank rental and maintenance services to federal agencies as a prime contractor competing predominantly full-and-open across civilian research, medical, and defense customer bases.

Roberts Oxygen operates through 3,765 prime federal contract awards totaling $194.1 million in combined potential value, with 3,766 total awards counted across both prime and negligible sub positions. The vendor's footprint concentrates heavily in industrial gas manufacturing (NAICS 325120), with compressed and liquefied gases as the dominant procurement signal (2,202 awards under PSC 6830). Recent activity shows a downward trajectory: 97 awards in 2024, 59 in 2025, and 35 year-to-date in 2026, with $33.6 million obligated against potential value, indicating selective funding execution. Thirty-eight awards reach completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $3.1 million in combined potential value and representing recompete exposure for the vendor.

Customer concentration is diffuse across 77 distinct federal agencies, though defense medical and health research dominate dollars. The top five customers by potential value account for 77 percent of combined value: the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations leads with 131 awards and $115.7 million, followed by the Defense Health Agency ($16.9 million across 39 awards), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ($7.2 million despite 1,070 award count reflecting very small individual orders), the National Institute on Drug Abuse ($4.9 million across 53 awards), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ($3.9 million across 88 awards). Navy BuMed's dominance by volume but subordinate dollars signals high transaction density with modest ceiling values per call; the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations concentration by dollars anchors the portfolio through enterprise-scale blanket purchase agreements serving NIH institutes.

Roberts Oxygen holds a $10 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations effective through September 30, 2027, the largest single vehicle in its federal footprint, with recent calls averaging $20 thousand to $25 thousand for liquid nitrogen, carbon dioxide, dry ice, and specialty gas delivery to multiple NIH institutes (National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and others). The vendor also maintains a $4.5 million single-award IDIQ with the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Area (Industrial Gas Delivery) through March 24, 2029, covering liquid nitrogen and cryogenic liquids to research facilities in Calverton, Maryland. A $2.75 million BPA with the National Institute of Standards and Technology covers compressed gas supply and delivery to NIST campuses in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Boulder, Colorado through June 30, 2027. Additional vehicles include a $465.7 thousand IDIQ with the National Institute on Aging for liquid nitrogen (completion September 29, 2028), a $606.8 thousand IDIQ with Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 for medical gas and cylinder tank rentals (completion May 26, 2031), and a $470.6 thousand IDIQ with VISN 6 for bulk oxygen USP with tank rental (completion September 9, 2031). The Defense Health Agency maintains two active agreements: a $350 thousand BPA for medical-grade oxygen tanks (completion April 2, 2031) and a $29.4 thousand BPA for medical oxygen and nitrous oxide gases to dental clinics at Fort Gregg-Adams (completion March 31, 2029). The National Institute on Drug Abuse holds a $250 thousand IDIQ for bulk compressed gases to the Intramural Research Program (completion May 31, 2028). Transportation Security Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Environmental Protection Agency, and Food and Drug Administration round out the active vehicle portfolio with smaller BPAs and single task orders for laboratory gases, bulk carbon dioxide, telemetry-monitored liquid nitrogen, and specialty gases.

Representative recent work includes a $521.9 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from the Food and Drug Administration for telemetry monitoring of liquid nitrogen tank and refill through August 24, 2029; a $238.6 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for 416 liquid nitrogen tanks (230-liter capacity) with delivery every Monday and Thursday through February 26, 2029; a $236.4 thousand total small business set-aside award from Naval Sea Systems Command for bulk liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide delivery to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division through December 31, 2026; a $192.4 thousand firm fixed-price delivery order from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for medical-grade bulk gases (liquid nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide) to NINDS through September 27, 2025; a $165.5 thousand purchase order from the General Services Administration for installation and lease of a Chart VS high-pressure bulk storage tank system at Atlantic City, New Jersey through March 31, 2027; a $1.04 million purchase order from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for consolidated laboratory gases and cryogenic services (bulk liquid nitrogen, carbon dioxide, telemetry monitoring, refill, and cylinder support for critical laboratory equipment) through July 12, 2031; and a $337.8 thousand purchase order from the Food and Drug Administration for bulk carbon dioxide supply with telemetry system and monitoring through September 17, 2031. Across these awards, Roberts Oxygen demonstrates its core capability profile: bulk and cylinder gas delivery (liquid nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, argon, helium), specialty and high-purity gases, tank rental and maintenance, telemetry monitoring systems, emergency response, and equipment installation and repair for federal laboratory, medical, and operational facilities.

Roberts Oxygen competes exclusively as prime contractor with no meaningful subcontract footprint (one sub award recorded) and operates full-and-open across civilian and defense customers without active small business set-aside posture on its largest vehicles, though several individual awards and IDIQs carry total small business set-aside designations. The vendor subsidiary Cryo-Express, LLC appears in corporate structure filings but does not surface separately in the award record. Roberts Oxygen's business model centers on routine, recurring supply of high-consumption commodity gases to federal research and medical infrastructure with long-term vehicle stability anchored by multi-year BPAs and IDIQs, offsetting the recent year-on-year decline in award volume with substantial multi-million-dollar option-year certainty in existing contracts.