NOI Liquid Oxygen Bulk Tank Rental and Refill

Notice of Intent to Sole Source HT941027N0011

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE SUPPLY CONTRACT AND

IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. The Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity (DHACA), Healthcare Contracting Division – San Diego (HCD-SD), intends to award a firm fixed price supply purchase for Liquid Oxygen Bulk Tank Rental and Refill at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 12.102(a) under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) for the acquisition of commercial products and services.

Airgas USA LLC
Long Beach, CA 90808-1744

UEI: JU4DDQSGBM99

CAGE: 6NTX4

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 325120 – Industrial Gas Manufacturing; the business size standard is 1200 (in employees). The Product Service Code (PSC) is 6835 -Medical Gases.

The objective of this sole source award is to procure Liquid Oxygen Bulk Tank Rental and Refill

Delivery Dates:
No later than 01 Jan 2027

Delivery Location:
Naval Medical Center San Diego
34800 Bob Wilson Drive
San Diego, CA 92134

Airgas USA LLC is the sole source capable of meeting the Government’s minimum requirements to provide critical bulk medical liquid oxygen (USP) tank leasing, maintenance, telemetry monitoring, and emergency/scheduled refill services at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD). Uninterrupted bulk liquid oxygen delivery is an indispensable, life-critical utility vital to maintaining the continuous safety and clinical operations of NMCSD’s surgical suites, intensive care units, emergency departments, and patient ventilators. The existing bulk cryogenic storage vessels, primary and auxiliary vaporizers, emergency reserve manifold, and integrated telemetry hardware are proprietary equipment manufactured, owned, and maintained exclusively by Airgas. Due to stringent Compressed Gas Association (CGA) and NFPA 99 (Health Care Facilities Code) standards, supplier-owned cryogenic bulk systems cannot be modified, connected to, serviced, or refilled by third-party industrial gas vendors. Attempting to transition to an alternative vendor would necessitate the decommissioning, crane removal, and physical replacement of the primary cryogenic storage tank and pad infrastructure. Such an undertaking would inevitably disrupt the hospital’s primary medical gas supply line, requiring extended reliance on secondary emergency cylinder reserves, introducing severe operational hazards, and creating unacceptable clinical risks to critically ill and ventilator-dependent patients.