East Coast General Ship Repair IDIQ

Military Sealift Command is operating the East Coast General Ship Repair IDIQ, a master IDIQ established October 1, 2023 with ordering authority through September 30, 2028, to procure ship repair services for MSC vessels including pipefitting, welding, machinist work, electrical work, boiler making and repairing, and diesel mechanics. About two years 2 months of ordering authority remain. The vehicle carries no set-aside restriction at the vehicle level, though the task-order portfolio is split roughly evenly between small business (53% of orders) and unrestricted awards (47%).

The IDIQ has generated 150 task orders totaling $67 million in combined potential value as of mid-April 2026, with $66.1 million already obligated (99% of total). Order volume accelerated sharply after the vehicle's initial ramp, jumping from 5 orders in calendar 2023 to 69 in 2024, then moderating to 58 in 2025 and 18 year-to-date through April 2026. The most recent task order was issued April 8, 2026.

Work covers voyage repair availabilities, tank services, equipment overhauls, and maintenance across a broad MSC fleet including USNS Comfort, Newport, Trenton, Carson City, Yuma, Burlington, Kanawha, Pecos, and others. Orders range from under $10,000 for targeted repairs (cargo hook recertification, elevator inspection, fuel tank drain leak) to multi-million-dollar voyage repairs; the largest recent awards include USNS Newport overhaul at $5.5 million (August 2025), USNS Choctaw County decommissioning at $3.9 million (July 2025), and USNS Comfort fall voyage repair at $4.2 million (September 2025).

Five primes dominate the award landscape. Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation leads in combined potential value with 20 orders and $19.2 million; Fairlead Boatworks holds 19 orders for $15.2 million; Mid Atlantic Engineering Technical Services leads in order count with 29 awards but only $12.7 million combined value; Atlantic Fabrication & Boiler Services has 16 orders worth $9.5 million; and Ems Industrial holds 17 orders for $5.7 million. These five firms account for 67% of all task orders and 93% of the combined potential value. A long tail of 16 other small-business and unrestricted contractors receive the remaining orders.

Military Sealift Command is the sole customer funding the vehicle. All 150 orders originate within MSC for support of its own fleet operations, with no cross-agency funding activity to date.

This IDIQ requires a broad range of ship repair for MSC vessels including, but not limited to, pipefitting, welding, machinist work, electrical work, boiler making and repairing, and diesel mechanics