Bluewater Management Group LLC

Bluewater Management Group LLC, a Women-Owned Small Business based in Chesapeake, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor delivering temporary lodging, dining, transportation, and logistics support services to federal maritime and veterans' healthcare agencies. The company competes across a mix of full-and-open and total small business set-aside procurements, with set-asides anchoring the majority of its prime contract portfolio.

Bluewater's customer concentration is sharply maritime-focused. The top customer by award count, the U.S. Coast Guard, accounts for 490 awards (33% of the total portfolio) and $90 million in combined potential value; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration follows with 204 awards and $1.04 billion in potential value, reflecting a smaller number of larger single-award and blanket purchase agreement vehicles. Military Sealift Command, which manages Navy civilian mariner lodging across multiple installations, has placed 153 awards totaling $432.6 million in potential value. These three agencies together represent 847 awards (57% of the footprint) but only a portion of the $66.88 billion portfolio ceiling—a signal that the remainder consists of inherited or placeholder-ceiling vehicles that may be inactive or dormant. The top four customers by award count coverage equal 67% of total awards; by potential value, NOAA, Military Sealift Command, and Coast Guard rank first, second, and third respectively, capturing only 2% of the combined potential-value ceiling—suggesting that most vehicle ceilings are notional or have not been drawn down.

Bluewater holds positions on four named parent vehicles: a $65 billion Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract TITUS (WEXMAC TITUS) awarded October 1, 2025 by Naval Supply Systems Command covering humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, contingency operations, lodging, and logistics across the Continental U.S., Alaska, and outlying territories through December 31, 2029; a $65.3 million single-award IDC with Military Sealift Command for hotel lodging and charter bus transportation for Civil Service Mariners in San Diego through March 31, 2030; a $51.4 million single-award IDC with Military Sealift Command for lodging and transportation services at Norfolk Naval Station through December 15, 2029; and a $9.9 million single-award BPA with NOAA for nationwide temporary lodging and support services for research vessels and personnel through January 3, 2029, all issued under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The $744 MAS-linked delivery orders driving the largest task-order activity represent $1.19 billion in combined potential value and reflect the core of Bluewater's operational footprint.

Bluewater's award trajectory shows modest volume: 91 awards in 2022, declining to 72 in 2024, then recovering to 90 in 2025, with 53 awards thus far in 2026. The portfolio includes 36 awards (combined potential value $66.6 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure on contracts anchored by the Coast Guard and Military Sealift Command.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC concentration is narrow: 788 of 1,464 awards fall under NAICS 721110 (Hotels except Casino Hotels and Motels), and 1,116 awards carry PSC code S201 (Lodging, Hotel/Motel). The top NAICS also includes 520 awards under All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services. This commodity focus—temporary lodging and support services—defines the vendor's niche.

Across the SCI dataset (FY2022–FY2024), Bluewater reported $45.9 million in invoiced federal service-contract revenue as a prime, with no named subcontractor engagement. FY2022 invoicing ran $18.6 million; FY2023, $16.1 million; and FY2024, $11.2 million. The FTE trajectory shows 5.0 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 1.7 in FY2023 and 1.2 in FY2024, indicating a shift toward lower-labor-intensity contracting (likely fixed-price hotel and transportation brokerage arrangements rather than direct staffing). Government-paid median hourly rates on SCI records average $5,084 per hour, with rates spanning from around $844 to $10,380 per hour—rates consistent with hourly or time-and-materials lodging coordination, logistics management, or per-diem-based hotel sourcing roles. Bluewater subcontracts 0% of hours on average across its SCI-reportable primes, indicating it performs delivery itself or acts as a broker/arranger for third-party hotel and transportation providers rather than building its own service-delivery team.

The vendor's award posture is 100% prime (1,464 prime awards, 0 sub awards), confirming it competes for and holds federal contracts directly rather than operating as a subcontractor feeder to larger integrators. Bluewater operates predominately under set-asides—particularly Total Small Business set-asides on Military Sealift Command and Coast Guard awards—and on full-and-open MAS delivery orders, leveraging its WOSB certification to compete across federal civilian and defense agency lodging requirements with pre-negotiated rates under established GSA schedule and BPA vehicles.

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