Boatswain's Locker I, Incorporated

Boatswain's Locker I, Incorporated, doing business as Boatswains Locker Inc., is a small business based in Costa Mesa, California, that supplies diesel engines, engine components, marine hardware, and maritime equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, with no subcontract footprint.

The vendor competes full-and-open across its prime work, with no SBA set-aside designations characterizing most individual purchase orders, though approximately half of its indefinite delivery contract vehicles carry total small business set-aside designations. Boatswain's Locker has been registered in SAM since 2001 and holds no additional SBA certifications beyond small business status.

Customer concentration is extreme and geographically imbalanced. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime dominates the portfolio with 1,053 awards (49% of all awards) worth $10.8 million combined potential value, followed at distance by DLA Troop Support Hardware (540 awards, $200 thousand) and DLA Aviation (350 awards, $569 thousand). The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard ranks fourth by award count (64 awards) but third by potential value ($8.1 million), driven by several large single awards including a $4.3 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract for Yanmar engines and engine parts running through November 2028. Together, DLA Land and Maritime and the Coast Guard represent roughly 87% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Secondary customers include the Naval Supply Systems Command ($851 thousand across seven awards), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (two awards including a $119 thousand total small business set-aside for Steyr engine parts), and the Military Sealift Command (several awards for RHIB jet drives and Fast Rescue Boat engine overhaul services). The vendor has served 29 distinct federal agencies overall.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on discrete maritime equipment and engine component supply. Representative work includes a $329.95 thousand full-and-open purchase order from the Coast Guard (September 2026) for sterndrive and transom components with performance at Curtis Bay, Baltimore; a $119 thousand total small business set-aside from NOAA (September 2024) for Steyr small boat engine spare parts supporting research and survey vessel fleets; a $93.3 thousand full-and-open purchase order from the Coast Guard (September 2026) for diesel engines; and a $66.4 thousand purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command (January 2026) for diesel engine supply. Smaller orders—the mode for this vendor—typically range from a few hundred to ten thousand dollars and procure individual components: fuel metering pumps, filter elements, gaskets, seals, o-rings, engine starters, bearings, injector assemblies, impellers, and related fasteners and hardware. Several training and repair awards appear (engine repair work, engine training courses, engine overhaul services), but the vast majority is component supply. Top NAICS codes reflect this: bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (284 awards); gasket, packing, and sealing device manufacturing (229 awards); and other engine equipment manufacturing (206 awards). Top PSCs are packing and gasket materials (211 awards), o-rings (167 awards), and engine fuel system components, nonaircraft (114 awards).

The vendor holds eleven active indefinite delivery contract vehicles with DLA Land and Maritime, each carrying a ceiling of $250 thousand to $350 thousand under total small business set-aside designation. These IDCs cover specific product lines: fuel metering pumps, fuel pump cam actuators, filter elements (multiple NSNs), nonmetallic seals, AC engine generators, parts kits for engines, and impeller pump components. The contracts are structured to accommodate three to twelve delivery orders per year with guaranteed minimums. Performance across all IDCs occurs at the vendor's Costa Mesa facility, with delivery to DLA depots in the continental United States and overseas consolidation points. The vendor also holds the $4.3 million multiple-award Coast Guard contract for Yammer engines and engine parts through November 2028, accessed via delivery orders under total small business set-aside.

Activity has declined sharply: 144 awards in 2022, declining to 45 awards in 2026 (year-to-date through mid-December). Six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $482 thousand—a modest recompete exposure that does not flag significant cliff risk relative to the vendor's small transaction scale.

The vendor holds a single subcontract award in the source data: a $4.6 million sub-award from Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. on a 300 HP diesel outboard engine package order (July 2024), representing negligible sub-engagement share relative to the prime footprint.

The source captures 2,149 total awards spanning over two decades, with combined potential value of $22.7 million and obligated dollars of $9.5 million (42% realization). The vendor operates as a high-volume, low-transaction-value distributor of marine engine components and fasteners, tightly aligned with Defense Logistics Agency logistics streams and the Coast Guard's vessel maintenance supply chains.

Marine Engines &parts