American Scaffold LLC

American Scaffold LLC, operating as American Scaffold, is a San Diego, California-based for-profit limited liability company that rents and deploys scaffolding equipment and services to the U.S. Navy and Army as a subcontractor (66% of recent awards) and prime contractor (34%). The vendor operates as a child entity under parent company Imia, LLC. American Scaffold competes on full-and-open Navy maintenance and ship repair contracts with no set-aside designations; the vendor holds no SBA certifications.

American Scaffold's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in naval ship maintenance and modernization. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) accounts for 1,323 awards (86% of total awards) and $62.3 million combined potential value (99.5% of total), making it the sole meaningful customer in the source data. The remaining fourteen agencies — including Department of the Army Communications Electronics Command, Pacific Fleet Forces, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and Naval Air Systems Command — represent marginal activity at $163 thousand to $91 thousand in combined potential value. When ranked by dollar value, the concentration becomes even more extreme: NAVSEA represents 100% of the combined potential value tier.

The vendor's work is deeply embedded in Navy ship maintenance cycles. Representative prime work includes a $64,386.91 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for scaffolding services at Kings Bay Base, Georgia (award March 12, 2026, completion June 15, 2026), a $13,544 delivery order from Army Communications Electronics Command for scaffolding on the LPD-27 CMSD in San Diego (award July 6, 2023, completion July 28, 2023), and an $8,003.80 purchase order for scaffolding on USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia Beach (award June 27, 2024, completion July 22, 2024). Sub-award work runs across major ship repair primes: BAE Systems Maritime Solutions San Diego Inc., BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC, National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, Vigor Marine LLC, and Marine Hydraulics International LLC anchor the majority of American Scaffold's sub-tier activity, where the vendor furnishes temporary access structures, staging systems, containment platforms, and fall-protection scaffolding for docking-selected restricted availabilities (DSRAs), selected restricted availabilities (SRAs), and depot modernization periods on destroyer leaders, littoral combat ships, amphibious transport docks, and conventionally powered aircraft carriers.

American Scaffold's prime vehicle position includes multiple Navy indefinite delivery contracts: 312 task orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract N5523616D0001 (combined potential value $6.3 million), 83 under N0002418D4325, and 65 under N0002416D4416. The vendor also holds position on SWRMC Commercial Industrial Services 2012-2013 (60 task orders, $406 thousand combined potential value) and Complex and Non-Complex Maintenance on Surface Combatant and Amphibious Class Ships — San Diego (41 task orders). Awards are classified under NAICS 233611 (Ship Building and Repairing, 994 awards) and 532490 (Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery Equipment Rental and Leasing, 497 awards), with PSC 45 (Lease or Rental of Equipment—Prefabricated Structures and Scaffolding) covering 482 awards. Recent activity peaked in 2023–2024 (370 and 387 awards respectively) before declining to 234 in 2025 and 12 through mid-2026, indicating a potential recompete cliff or schedule consolidation on underlying Navy maintenance vehicles.

American Scaffold's combined potential value of $62.6 million contrasts with combined obligated dollars of $70.3 million (112% of potential), reflecting actual invoicing that exceeded nominal ceiling values — a pattern consistent with cost growth on labor-intensive scaffolding deployment work under fixed-price and firm-fixed-price arrangements on multi-year ship maintenance availabilities. The vendor's subcontractor dominance (66% of awards by count but routed entirely through BAE Systems, National Steel and Shipbuilding, Vigor Marine, and other prime ship repair integrators) positions it as a capacity supplier to Navy maintenance rather than a systems integrator or engineering-led prime.