Custom Panel & Controls, LLC

Custom Panel & Controls, LLC, a Virginia Beach-based small business subchapter S corporation, supplies specialized electrical components, repair services, and turn-key maintenance for naval vessels as a prime contractor (76% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on Navy ship repair programs, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation on the vast majority of prime work. The company holds a five-year Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Military Sealift Command valued at $44.6 million through June 2030 for shipboard electrical system repairs, maintenance, and Original Equipment Manufacturer-certified parts and service delivery across the Navy's fleet.

Military Sealift Command dominates Custom Panel & Controls' customer footprint to an extreme degree. Of 71 total awards (prime and sub combined), 52 awards worth $94.7 million in combined potential value flow to MSC — 97% of the vendor's award count and 99% of potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command accounts for 10 awards, the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration for 4 awards ($354 thousand combined value), and the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard for 1 award; together these represent less than 3% of the vendor's exposure. Custom Panel & Controls sits on two primary MSC IDIQs: IDC N3220518D4710 with 10 task orders valued at $3.4 million, and IDC N3943023D4050 with 10 task orders. Recent representative prime work includes a $897.3 thousand delivery order for electrical plant inspection and repair on the USNS Sacagawea (December 2022 through March 2023, performed in Japan), a $136.4 thousand purchase order for T-AKE Class intrusion detection system design and upgrades (September 2024, extended through April 2026), a $101.3 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order for uninterruptible power supply system replacement (February 2024), and a $77.2 thousand purchase order for Emergency Diesel Generator repairs on USNS Mercy (January 2025). Recent awards show sub-million and mid-five-figure purchase order activity climbing sharply: 24 awards in 2025 compared to 7 in 2024 and 2 in 2022, reflecting increased order velocity through the existing IDC relationships.

Custom Panel & Controls' capability framing centers on shipboard electrical systems — power generation, power distribution, control systems, switchboards, circuit breakers, uninterruptible power supply systems, intrusion detection system upgrades, and associated labor and materials. Work spans NAICS Engineering Services, Ship Building and Repairing, Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing, and Electrical Contractors, with PSC concentration in Support (Professional Engineering/Technical), Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment, and Non-Nuclear Ship Repair. The vendor performs labor onboard naval vessels including USNS Mercy, USNS Lewis and Clark, USNS Robert F. Kennedy, USNS Zeus, and USNS Sacagawea, and at shipyards and supply locations including Norfolk Virginia, Beaver Pennsylvania, Spartanburg South Carolina, and overseas locations such as Japan, South Korea, and Chuuk.

On the subcontractor side, Custom Panel & Controls engages with Vigor Marine LLC on USNS Matthew Perry fiscal year 2025 regular overhaul and dry-docking availability work, providing tech reps and related labor and materials across multiple task orders (March through May 2025). The vendor also supplies material, services, and labor to Oceanetics Inc. on M/V Petrel vessel repair task orders, including panel installation, equipment installation, and engineering support (multiple awards spanning July 2025 through January 2025). Custom Panel & Controls additionally works under CACI Inc. – Federal on Naval X product innovation and delivery work, and on Navy Military Sealift Command design, maintenance, quality, and shipyard quality assurance research and development programs (September and November 2025). Subcontract work with Delphinus Engineering involved general ship repair technical services on USNS Byrd (May 2024).

The recompete cliff is significant: 11 awards with ultimate completion dates falling within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of approximately $43 million — representing 45% of Custom Panel & Controls' total exposed value and dominated by the MSC IDC's baseline ordering period. Growth trajectory shows rapid acceleration in award velocity (1 award in 2023 to 24 in 2025), driven by task order issuance against the June 2025 IDC award, though actual dollars obligated remain modest at 10% of combined potential value, indicating early-stage utilization of the larger contract vehicle.