Bluepoint Engineering LLC

Bluepoint Engineering LLC, a small business maritime repair contractor headquartered in Abington, Massachusetts, delivers dockside ship repair, vessel maintenance, and specialized maritime services to federal maritime agencies predominantly as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company operates as a for-profit limited liability company and competes almost exclusively under small business reservations—98% of its award footprint carries total small business set-aside designations.

Bluepoint's customer concentration is highly specialized by agency and driven by dollar value rather than award count. The Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command anchors the portfolio with 11 awards worth $142.5 million in combined potential value, dominated by Bluepoint's seat on the $140 million East Coast General Ship Repair IDIQ extending through September 2028. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration represents the second-largest customer by dollars with 8 awards totaling $77.6 million potential value, centered on the $73.8 million Fleetwide Dockside and Ship Maintenance IDIQ running through August 2028. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard, by contrast, has placed 33 awards—the highest award count—but these are primarily small purchase orders and individual dockside repair contracts totaling only $11 million combined potential value. The Secretary of the Navy contributed one additional award ($632 thousand) for pierside repairs to the Training Ship State of Maine. These four agencies represent 100% of Bluepoint's recent federal activity. Bluepoint holds a single-award Coast Guard IDC ($950 thousand, awarded March 2026) for USCGC Katherine Walker dockside repairs, completing through May 2026.

Representative work across the customer base includes a $1.332 million delivery order from NOAA for FY25 Ferdinand Hassler dockside repairs (awarded September 2024 under the Fleetwide IDIQ), a $1.387 million NOAA delivery order for FY25 Henry Bigelow dockside work (awarded August 2024), a $648 thousand Military Sealift Command delivery order for USNS Yuma and USNS Burlington voyage repair availabilities in Philadelphia (awarded April 2025 under the East Coast General Ship Repair IDIQ), and a $505 thousand Coast Guard firm fixed-price contract for dockside repairs to USCGC Kingfisher including engine room preservation, main diesel engine renewal, and sea trial support (awarded November 2025, completed January 2026). Smaller Coast Guard work includes purchase orders for tank cleaning, anchor windlass services, exhaust insulation blankets, and engine insulation renewal, ranging from $14 thousand to $110 thousand per order.

Bluepoint's capability portfolio spans full-spectrum maritime repair: main diesel engine maintenance and overhauls (including W-5 periodic maintenance), hull inspections and underwater body cleaning with zinc anode renewal, tank and piping cleaning and certification, electrical system inspections and switchboard replacements, watertight closure assessment, insulation installation and renewal on exhaust systems and machinery, fire detection and suppression system maintenance, and voyage repair availabilities on Navy sealift vessels. Work is performed at customer facilities and homeports nationwide, with place-of-performance locations spanning Bancroft, West Virginia (MSC tank rafting work); Norfolk, Virginia (ballast pipe repairs, NOAA work); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (MSC voyage repair); Key West, Florida (Coast Guard dockside work); and Woods Hole, Massachusetts (NOAA research vessel repairs), among others.

Activity shows strong recent growth. Awards increased from 6 in 2022 to 16 in 2024, with 15 awards in 2025 and 2 awards year-to-date in 2026 through mid-March. Combined potential value across all 53 awards totals $231.7 million, with only $17 million obligated to date (7% of ceiling), indicating substantial unexercised optionality on the large MSC and NOAA IDIQs. Within the next twenty-four months, Bluepoint faces recompete exposure on multiple task orders and the Katherine Walker single-award IDC (expiring May 2026), though the dollars at immediate risk represent a small fraction of the $231.7 million portfolio ceiling.

Bluepoint operates almost entirely as a prime (52 of 53 awards, 98%). The company holds one named subcontract role: a $1.826 million subcontract award issued March 2025 to East Coast Repair & Fabrication LLC for merchant marine engineering and deck officer watch-standing support aboard USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB-4) during a lay berth and ship repair availability (April 2025–April 2026 performance period). SCI-reportable invoiced revenue reached $3.4 million in FY2024 across 4.2 full-time equivalents on prime contracts, reflecting the heavy task-order structure of Bluepoint's work — only six SCI-reportable records captured (above the $150 thousand threshold), with no sub-engagement data in the SCI sample. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ran $494.76/hr, with labor spanning $312/hr to $587/hr, consistent with skilled maritime trades and supervisory labor on repair projects. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average 21% of total hours, indicating Bluepoint retains meaningful in-house delivery capability while selectively engaging specialty subs for specific work scopes.

NAICS concentration is pure maritime: 48 of 53 awards carry NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), with four awards in drywall and insulation contracting (NAICS 238310) and one in water transportation support services. PSC codes reinforce the same profile—20 awards under Non-Nuclear Ship Repair (East), 12 under ship equipment maintenance/repair, 6 under small craft repair, 3 under transport vessel work, and 2 under fishing vessel repair. Bluepoint has no presence in IT, engineering services, logistics, or defense contractor teaming; it is a specialized, persistent maritime repair prime for three civilian maritime agencies.