Automatic Coating LIMITED USA

Automatic Coating LIMITED USA, a small business manufacturer headquartered in Suffolk, Virginia, delivers precision coating services and transducer tube assembly fabrication and refurbishment to federal maritime and naval customers as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards), with a subsidiary relationship to Canadian parent Automatic Coating LIMITED. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides; recent prime work spans both set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders and purchase orders across the Coast Guard and Naval commands.

Customer concentration tracks closely to naval sonar and maritime preservation work. The top three funding agencies account for 100% of recent awards: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards, $13.5 million combined potential value), the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (16 awards, $8.4 million), and the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (3 awards, $3.1 million). The Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the dollar value through two large Indefinite Delivery Contracts. The Coast Guard dominates award count through a high-frequency stream of small purchase orders and delivery orders for coating and preservation services.

Automatic Coating LIMITED USA holds two prime IDCs: a $13.2 million single-award Total Small Business IDC with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded December 2024, ordering period through December 2029) for fabrication and refurbishment of TR-343 and TR-343A transducer tube assemblies supporting the AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted Sonar Array Subsystem and AN/SQQ-89(V) Anti-Submarine Warfare System, and an $8.25 million single-award Total Small Business IDC with the Coast Guard (awarded February 2026, completion January 2031) for watertight closure preservation and repair services on fleet cutters. Representative delivery orders under the Naval Sea Systems Command IDC include a $1.5 million order for TR-343 transducer tube assemblies (January 2026, completion January 2027) and a $290,140 order for TR-343 refurbishment (January 2025, completion January 2026). Coast Guard purchase orders span powder coating, watertight closure repair, and general service performance in the $2,300 to $32,000 range, with recent examples including a $31,955 purchase order for reliance watertight closure repair (September 2025, completion October 2025) and a $12,082 order for powder coating (November 2024, completion March 2025).

Activity shows growth from five awards in 2024 to thirteen in 2025, with five awards year-to-date in 2026 (through August). Four awards (combined potential value $1.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete in that window. Top parent vehicles are the Naval Sea Systems Command Indefinite Delivery Contract N0016425DGP83 (4 task orders, $3.4 million combined potential value) and the Coast Guard Indefinite Delivery Contract 70Z08026DMECP0001 (3 task orders, $12 thousand combined potential value). In its subcontractor role, Automatic Coating LIMITED USA provides ship repair support to BAE Systems Maritime Solutions Norfolk on USS LABOON (DDG-58) Direct Ship Repair Account work under two sub-awards (July 2025 and December 2024). The vendor's capability footprint centers on precision powder coating, transducer tube assembly fabrication and refurbishment, and watertight fixture preservation and repair for naval sonar systems and fleet maintenance, with place of performance primarily Suffolk, Virginia and subordinate locations including Chesapeake, Virginia.

ACL has developed the patented Tidal Coat Fluidized bed Corrosion protection system. ACL's "Tidal Coat Fluidized bed" system is widely deployed by U.S. navy destroyers as well as the Canadian Kingston, Halifax and Artic Offshore Patrol System ships. The "tidal coat" system is a dual immersion polymer powder process that provides an unprecedented five-year limited warranty on the coatings. These pieces however will provide a ten plus year life cycle on parts. The "tidal coat" system is an extremely durable fusion bonded multi-layer process designed to encapsulate the weldment or casting and uniformly cover inaccessible areas where all other coatings fail. This process has greatly reduced corrosion, saving millions of dollars in maintenance costs. In addition, ACL has successfully coated thousands of undersea warfare components. Some of these components, which are constantly submerged in seawater, have been in use for over 20 years.