Select Gases, LLC

Select Gases, LLC, doing business as Select Gases, supplies specialty, industrial, and medical-grade gases—chiefly hydrogen, liquid nitrogen, and argon—along with cryogenic equipment and related services to federal civilian agencies as a self-certified small disadvantaged business prime contractor. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) across 56 federal contracts with a combined potential value of $25 million, with performance executed from its headquarters in Norcross, Georgia.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven by a single anchor relationship. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accounts for 29 of 56 awards (52% of total count) and $23.2 million of the $25 million combined potential value—a 93% share of potential dollars. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy places 22 awards ($801 thousand combined potential value) for hydrogen propellant delivery orders. The Food and Drug Administration (2 awards, $486 thousand), the Army Criminal Investigation Command (2 awards, $427 thousand), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (1 award, $135 thousand) complete the active customer set. The CDC's dominance reflects Select Gases' position on two anchor BPAs: a $17.5 million CDC BPA (awarded July 2021, extending through July 2026) for cryogenic biological research liquid nitrogen freezers, freezer racks, and support services, which has generated task orders totaling over $5 million to date, and a $1.11 million CDC National Center for Environmental Health BPA (awarded August 2024, extending through August 2029) for liquid argon and dry ice delivery.

Select Gases' parent vehicle portfolio is dominated by CDC and DLA Energy single-award BPAs and indefinite delivery contracts. The CDC's $17.5 million CBR Liquid Nitrogen Freezers BPA has generated the largest volume of task orders across the portfolio. DLA Energy holds four single-award indefinite delivery contracts for hydrogen propellant and related services with individual ceilings ranging from $39,100 to $491,568.58, with the largest running through November 2029. The company also holds a $1.11 million CDC NCEH BPA for liquid argon and dry ice. Across these vehicles, Select Gases operates without set-aside protection on most awards; where set-asides are present, they are small-business designated.

Award activity has fluctuated year to year—six awards in 2022, twelve in 2023, fourteen in 2024, seven in 2025, and one in 2026 through March—with a combined obligated amount of $4.9 million against $25 million potential value (20% obligation rate). Only one award ($253 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, posing minimal near-term recompete exposure. The largest recompete risk sits with the CDC's $17.5 million BPA, which expires July 2026.

Capability work is highly specialized and repetitive: cryogenic liquid nitrogen and argon tank delivery, biological research freezer procurement and support, hydrogen propellant supply for defense fuel and aerospace energy programs, and associated installation and maintenance services. Representative prime awards include a $1.25 million CDC task order (September 2022) for cryogenic biological research liquid nitrogen freezers and racks, a $252 thousand Army Criminal Investigation Command purchase order (February 2024) for lab gas delivery service at Gillem Enclave through February 2027, a $338 thousand FDA purchase order (June 2025) for bulk gas tank rental and argon and nitrogen delivery to the Atlanta Human and Animal Food Laboratory through May 2030 with four optional renewal periods, and recurring hydrogen delivery orders to DLA Energy ranging from $3,558 to $26,737 per order.

Select Gases' Service Contract Inventory footprint is minimal (two SCI records across FY2022–FY2024), reflecting the vendor's primary role supplying goods and equipment rather than billable labor services. The two SCI records show the vendor as a named subcontractor with 0.2 FTEs in FY2022 and 3.0 FTEs in FY2024, indicating negligible sub-engagement on federal service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. The vendor operates as a self-contained supplier-prime and does not pursue or report significant sub-hours arrangements; consequently, teaming is absent from the recent award record.

Select Gases is a family-owned specialty gas distributor with over 100 years of combined industry experience. The vendor's federal footprint is narrowly tailored to the CDC's biorepository and cryogenic equipment needs and DLA Energy's hydrogen logistics, with no diversification into defense primes, other civilian agencies, or IT services. Obligated spending trails potential value significantly ($4.9 million of $25 million), suggesting task orders are issued on a consumption-as-needed basis against established BPA and IDC vehicles rather than fixed-price delivery schedules.

Compressed Gases; Cryogenic Gases; Cryogenic Freezers; Laboratory Gases ; Industrial Gases; UHP Gases ; EPA Mixtures