Brusco Tug & Barge, Inc.

Brusco Tug & Barge, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Longview, Washington, operates as a prime contractor providing tugboat and towing services to the U.S. Navy and Army Corps of Engineers, with the vast majority of recent work (95% of awards) in the prime capacity. The company competes on a full-and-open basis across all recent awards with no set-aside designations, despite its small disadvantaged business certification.

Brusco's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on Navy port and maritime logistics operations. The Department of the Navy accounts for 106 of 117 awards with identified agencies—60 awards from Navy Installations Command and 39 from Military Sealift Command dominating both volume and dollars. Navy Installations Command and Military Sealift Command together represent 90% of recent awards and account for $27 million of the $27.6 million combined potential value across all awards. The remaining customer base includes the Army Corps of Engineers (8 awards), which has issued dredging-support work. Brusco's concrete capability centers on call-out tug services, tugboat operations, towing, scow mobilization, and marine logistics support at naval facilities—most heavily at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, California.

Brusco's prime work rides on a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract N0018923D0019 from Military Sealift Command valued at $8.25 million and running through March 31, 2028, which carries the largest share of the vendor's recent dollar value ($3.8 million across 6 task orders). The contract consolidates call-out tug service requirements across multiple Navy commands at Port Hueneme. Four additional Navy IDCs (numbered N0003309D1022, N3220518D3601, N0003313D2107, and N0003304D1003) carry 87 task orders collectively and account for the remainder of Brusco's prime delivery-order work. Recent representative awards include a $1.63 million delivery order from Navy Installations Command for call-out tug and tugboat services at Port Hueneme (September 30, 2024), a $1.09 million delivery order for call-out tug services at the same location (October 1, 2025), and a $510,380 delivery order from Navy Installations Command (October 3, 2023).

In its subcontractor role, Brusco performs tug and tow services, scow mobilization, and marine support work for dredging and channel-maintenance projects under primes including The Dutra Group (towing and tug-and-tow services on the FY 25 Petaluma River Channel Maintenance Dredging Project and Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel maintenance projects in 2025), Camenzind Dutra JV LLC (towing services on Kahului mobilization projects in 2024), and San Rafael Rock Quarry, Inc. (tug and marine support for Sacramento River erosion projects in 2024). Activity has been modest but growing—two awards in 2022 to seven in 2024, with only one award recorded in 2026 to date and just one award ($1.1 million) scheduled to complete in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Combined obligated dollars across all awards stand at $19.2 million, representing 69% of combined potential value.