Calico Jack Ventures LLC

Calico Jack Ventures LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business organized as a limited liability company, operates as a prime contractor providing commercial diving services, underwater hull maintenance, and marine-vessel inspection to the U.S. Coast Guard exclusively — all work delivered under small business set-asides or unrestricted procurements on purchase orders ranging from $2,750 to $8,000 per task.

Based at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, Calico Jack Ventures operates as a sole proprietorship in the ship building and repairing space (NAICS 811320) with secondary classification in maintenance, repair, and rebuild of ship and marine equipment (PSC codes G301 and G332). The vendor's entire award footprint concentrates on the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard — 100% of recent awards, all eleven purchase orders valued at $65 thousand combined. Scope of work centers on underwater hull cleaning, comprehensive visual inspection of submerged surfaces and appendages, zinc anode renewal and cathodic protection maintenance, propeller servicing, sea chest repairs, and port shaft bearing dive operations. Representative contracts include an August 2026 $6,500 purchase order for hull cleaning and inspection on the USCGC Mohawk in Portsmouth, Virginia (performed by certified commercial divers compliant with 29 CFR 1910 diving standards); a December 2025 $6,000 total small business set-aside for diver hull cleaning, inspection, and zinc anode renewal in Key West; and a February 2025 $8,000 hull inspection and cleaning contract for the Coast Guard Cutter Hickory, also in Portsmouth.

Activity has averaged just over one award per quarter since late 2023, with a peak of five awards in 2024 (followed by four in 2025 and one in 2026 year-to-date). The vendor operates entirely through small business set-asides on Coast Guard vessel maintenance schedules rather than through standing government-wide acquisition contracts, IDIQs, or BPAs. Calico Jack Ventures carries no subcontract obligations and maintains no parent-contract vehicle relationships; each purchase order represents a direct, standalone engagement with the Coast Guard. Geographic performance splits between Key West, Florida (the vendor's headquarters location and home port for most Coast Guard operations) and Portsmouth, Virginia (where the vendor has executed multiple hull-maintenance tasks on other cutters). The vendor's commercial-diving operations and specialized underwater-maintenance expertise position it within a narrow market segment serving the Coast Guard's fleet-preservation and vessel-readiness requirements, with no visible federal customer diversification or expansion beyond maritime diving and hull services.