Alaska Commercial Divers, Inc.

Alaska Commercial Divers, Inc., a woman-owned and veteran-owned small business based in Ketchikan, Alaska, provides underwater construction, maintenance, inspection, and environmental remediation services to the U.S. Coast Guard as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes predominantly under full-and-open federal procurement with no small-business set-aside requirement, though many individual purchase orders carry total small business set-aside designations.

The company's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in a single customer. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 64 of 91 total awards and $58.1 million of the combined $58.3 million potential value (77% of awards, 100% of potential value). No other federal customer materially figures in the portfolio. Alaska Commercial Divers performs work across Alaska's coastal regions — Ketchikan, Sitka, Ward Cove, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Juneau — with occasional work outside Alaska, such as a $13,204 purchase order for service at the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia (February 2026). Work location spans domestic Coast Guard installations and remote maritime response sites.

Capability delivery centers on two mission areas. Environmental emergency response dominates the portfolio: 45 awards under PSC Environmental Systems Protection–Oil Spill Response and 46 awards under NAICS Remediation Services reflect the company's core role in labor, equipment, and materials provision for oil spill and hazardous chemical incident mitigation as directed by Federal On-Scene Coordinators. Ship and marine vessel maintenance rounds out the work: 20 awards under PSC Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment–Ship and Marine Equipment and 19 awards under NAICS Ship Building and Repairing reflect hull cleaning, inspection, zinc anode renewal, valve replacement, and diver-cofferdam work on Coast Guard cutters. Representative prime work includes a $51,782.25 time-and-materials delivery order (November 2023) for oil spill mitigation in Meyers Chuck, Alaska; a $47,341.34 delivery order (April 2025) for hazardous-incident response in Sector Southeast Alaska; and a $22,360 purchase order (August 2024) for underwater hull cleaning and inspection in Petersburg.

The company anchors its contract posture on two Basic Ordering Agreements with the Coast Guard. A $3.99 million BOA executed November 21, 2025, extending through May 29, 2026, establishes authority to issue delivery orders for emergency response labor, materials, and equipment across Alaska on time-and-materials terms. An earlier BOA valued at $990,000 through March 2031 (referenced across the award portfolio) serves a similar function for oil spill and hazardous-incident mitigation. Task orders against these BOAs account for the bulk of active delivery-order work. Five BOA vehicles (DTCG8998A68F921, HSCG8413AJ00007, 70Z08421GJ0004800, HSCG8416AJ00029, and N0016724D0020) carry 39 task orders and $690 thousand combined potential value. The remaining 52 awards are purchase orders for one-off vessel maintenance and emergency response services.

Award activity has been steady but light over the past five years: three awards in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, seven in 2025, and three year-to-date in 2026. Only $2.1 million of the $58.3 million combined potential value has been obligated, indicating that many of the BOA-backed delivery orders remain unexercised standing authority rather than committed work. The company subcontracts minimally: two sub-awards to Leidos, Inc. under a Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility Operations Support contract (May 2024 and June 2025), representing less than 2% of the award portfolio. Service Contract Inventory reporting shows negligible SCI-reportable federal services activity — 0.2 FTEs in FY2022 and 0.0 FTEs in FY2024 across named-subcontractor records only — consistent with the company's micro-purchase and small-dollar purchase-order dominated work profile, which falls below SCI's $150,000 reporting threshold.