Coast Marine & Industrial Supply Inc.

Coast Marine & Industrial Supply Inc., a veteran-owned manufacturer based in San Francisco, California, supplies maritime safety equipment—chiefly Jacob's ladders, debarkation ladders, and pilot ladders—to the Department of Defense and related federal agencies as a prime contractor on 97% of its recent awards. The company operates primarily on indefinite-delivery contracts and purchase orders issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime and the Military Sealift Command, competing in full-and-open procurements rather than under socioeconomic set-asides; however, several of its IDC vehicles and individual purchase orders carry Total Small Business or no-set-aside designations.

Coast Marine & Industrial Supply Inc.'s federal customer base is heavily concentrated. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 182 awards representing $5.6 million in combined potential value (81% of the portfolio), while the Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command adds 69 awards valued at $831 thousand. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces, and the U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) together account for 76 awards worth $288 thousand. Across these five agencies, Coast Marine captures 84% of its recent awards. The gap between award count and dollar concentration—DLA dominates both—reflects the vendor's deep penetration of a single customer with high-volume, low-unit-price transactions.

Coast Marine holds a portfolio of single-award indefinite-delivery contracts with DLA valued at $250 thousand to $350 thousand each, with one-year ordering periods and typical guaranteed minimums of 7 to 9 units per year against estimated annual order volumes of 12 orders. Representative prime awards include a $76.3 thousand purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 51 Jacob's ladders (NSN 2090007533913) in February 2025, a $53.9 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from Military Sealift Command for a debarkation ladder in April 2025, a $45.4 thousand Military Sealift Command contract for ladder and spare parts in September 2024, and a $35.8 thousand delivery order from DLA for Jacob's ladders in October 2025. Performance is consistently located in San Francisco, California, with delivery to domestic and overseas DLA distribution depots and naval vessels including USNS Kanawha, USNS Tippecanoe, USNS Henry J. Kaiser, and USNS Washington Chambers.

The vendor's subcontract footprint is small—13 sub-awards, or 3% of the total portfolio—but strategically aligned with Navy shipbuilding. Coast Marine subcontracts to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NSSB) on multiple tranches of the T-AO class oiler construction program, including detail design and construction for T-AO 205, extended field availabilities for T-AO 206, 207, and 208, and Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) hull construction in the 6, 7, and 8 series. Subcontract work includes supply of pilot ladders and debarkation ladders for mid-term availability and provisioning. Coast Marine also supplies pilot ladders and debarkation ladders to Vigor Marine LLC on USNS Washington Chambers mid-term availability. These relationships position the vendor as a specialized supplier within the Navy's capital ship and oiler construction and maintenance ecosystem.

Activity has been stable to moderately growing. Awards per year have ranged from 16 in 2023 to 30 in 2024, with 26 awards in 2025 and 4 recorded to date in 2026. The combined potential value across the 388-award footprint (first award in 1981) stands at $6.9 million, with $5.9 million obligated (86% realization). The recurring $250 thousand IDC vehicles with DLA, renewed annually since at least 2022, anchor predictable ordering against a stable, commodity-like product line. Coast Marine's business model is characterized by high-frequency, low-dollar-value transactions—typical order sizes range from $3 thousand to $76 thousand—distributed across multiple single-award contract vehicles with a dominant customer and a secondary subcontract presence on Navy ship construction and modernization programs.

Marine & Industrial Supplier

Manufacturer of COMAR/MARK/I Pilot Ladder; COMAR/Debarkation; COMAR Workboat Ladder

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