Al Larson Boat Shop

Al Larson Boat Shop, a small business prime contractor based in San Pedro, California, delivers hull maintenance, welding repairs, and landing craft utility vessel repair and modernization services to Naval Sea Systems Command and the U.S. Coast Guard under small-business-set-aside delivery orders and purchase orders, with 94% of recent awards issued as prime contracts.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy surface combat and logistics commands. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command alone accounts for 54 awards totaling $293.6 million in combined potential value — 87% of the vendor's combined potential value across all 637 awards in the source data. The Coast Guard represents the secondary customer with 67 awards and $29.3 million combined potential value. Other Navy entities including Navy Installations Command (19 awards, $4.5 million), the general Department of the Navy (397 awards, $3.5 million), and Naval Air Systems Command (24 awards) round out the portfolio. These five customer segments cover 88% of awards and 99% of combined potential value. The concentration in a single customer and functional area — naval vessel maintenance under Naval Sea Systems Command — creates a structural recompete cliff: only three awards with $3.5 million combined potential value complete in the next twenty-four months, indicating that most of the active backlog is mid-contract rather than facing recompete pressure.

Al Larson Boat Shop's primary vehicle is the Marine Boatyard Services 2020-2026 IDIQ, a Naval Sea Systems Command small-business-set-aside indefinite delivery contract with a potential value of $144.7 million through December 2025. Recent representative awards under this vehicle include a $5.58 million firm-fixed-price delivery order issued January 20, 2025, for Landing Craft Utility 1630 maintenance and repair work; a $1.99 million order from September 26, 2025, for LCU-1680 maintenance; and a $754 thousand order from May 4, 2026, for Bravo Dive Boat 60DS2002 repairs. The vendor also holds task order authority on Basic Ordering Agreement N0002485H8102 (108 task orders) and Indefinite Delivery Contract N6587070C0006 (72 task orders), both Navy vehicles for ship and small-craft maintenance. Work is performed exclusively in San Pedro, California, where the company maintains a marine boatyard facility capable of handling non-nuclear naval vessels between 15 and 200 feet in length, including welding, hull maintenance, dry dock services, and floating-crane operations.

Activity has remained relatively stable across the past five years — ten to twelve awards annually in 2022 through 2024 — though the year-to-date 2025 and 2026 counts are sparse (five and three awards respectively) in the source snapshot as of July 15, 2026. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $337.6 million, with $196.9 million obligated (58% of potential). Award category concentration is extreme: 136 of 637 awards fall under NAICS 424450 (Ship Building and Repairing), and 319 awards carry PSC code for maintenance, repair, and rebuild of ships and small craft. The vendor's sub-award footprint is minimal — 38 of 637 awards (6%) are sub-awards, all routed through Systems Application & Technologies Inc. as the prime contractor for targets operations and maintenance dry dock and haul-out work dating from 2022 through April 2024.