Coast Machinery LLC

Coast Machinery LLC, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana–based small business manufacturer, designs and delivers amphibious tracked vehicles and marsh management equipment to the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service as a prime contractor under small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles. The company holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with FWS Region 2 (Texas Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge) for setup, maintenance, and repair services valued at $250,000 through March 2028 and operates across twenty federal customer agencies as a prime on 170 awards (99% of recent work) with combined potential value of $12.2 million.

Coast Machinery's customer concentration is overwhelmingly Fish and Wildlife Service–centric. The agency (across regional offices and headquarters) accounts for approximately 88 awards representing roughly 51% of award count and 56% of combined potential value. Within FWS, Region 4 leads in dollars ($1.7 million across 18 awards), followed by Region 2 ($1.4 million, 14 awards), Region 3 ($1.3 million, 12 awards), and Region 5 ($1.2 million, 10 awards). The vendor has worked with the Department of the Army (Army Test and Evaluation Command), the U.S. Air Force (Air Combat Command), the National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service across approximately twenty distinct federal agencies in the portfolio.

Representative work includes a $257,335 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded May 20, 2026, by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 for one amphibious tracked marsh buggy with rotary cutter and trailer (15'10" by 8'0" by 7'10", 74 HP turbodiesel engine, hydraulic winch, fire suppression capability, completion March 31, 2027, place of performance Cambridge, Maryland); a $440,955 definitive contract from FWS Region 3 awarded April 29, 2026, for two amphibious track vehicles with dual fire suppression water tanks and tilt-deck trailers (completion January 29, 2027, Minnesota Valley and Sherburne national wildlife refuges); a $268,265 purchase order from the Department of the Interior Great Plains Region awarded April 21, 2026, for Marsh Master equipment with October 21, 2027 completion; a $250,990 total small business set-aside purchase order from FWS for a Marsh Master MM-2MX-KC-FF fire package with dual 55-gallon water tanks and vegetation management attachments (July 8, 2024, San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, California); and a $235,690 small business set-aside purchase order from Army Test and Evaluation Command for a Marsh Buggy MM-2MX-KC with all required attachments (September 29, 2023, completion August 1, 2024).

Coast Machinery competes predominantly under small business set-asides — a majority of definitive contracts and purchase orders carry "Total Small Business" designations, though several recent awards (2026 region-level awards and some prior years' work) use full-and-open or no set-aside framing. The vendor's recent activity volume remains modest but steady: four awards in 2026 (year-to-date), seven in 2025, nine in 2024, declining from seven in 2023 and six in 2022. Four awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and thus face recompete exposure.

The vendor's NAICS footprint centers on All Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (77 awards), Fire Protection equipment (20 awards), and Construction Machinery Manufacturing (15 awards), with leading PSC codes in Miscellaneous Special Industry Machinery, Tractor Full Tracked Low Speed, Ground Effect Vehicles, and Fire Fighting Equipment. Subcontract activity is minimal — one sub-award appears in the source (October 1, 2024, HII Mission Technologies Corp, operations and maintenance services) representing 1% of the portfolio. The company's product portfolio is narrowly focused on amphibious tracked vehicles, marsh buggies, rotary cutters, hydraulic attachments, trailers, and fire suppression packages purpose-built for wetlands management, prescribed burn operations, and habitat conservation at federal wildlife refuges and protected areas.