Deep South Crane Rentals Inc.

Deep South Crane Rentals Inc., a Pensacola, Florida-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, provides crane rental, heavy lifting, rigging, and specialized transportation services to the federal government as a prime contractor on 94% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on defense technology and construction programs. The company competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations on the majority of its prime work, though it holds small business designations on selected Navy Installations Command and Air Education and Training Command contracts.

Deep South Crane Rentals' federal customer base concentrates heavily with Navy commands. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of recent awards by count and 89% by combined potential value, anchored by the Department of the Navy Installations Command (39 awards, $662 thousand combined potential value), which represents the dominant relationship across waterfront crane service, equipment rental, and facilities maintenance operations at Naval Air Station Pensacola and surrounding Florida installations. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (8 awards, $395 thousand) and Naval Sea Systems Command (9 awards, $299 thousand) round out Navy concentration, with the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (12 awards, $78 thousand) and Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (6 awards, $51 thousand) providing secondary customer diversification. The Navy Installations Command and Naval Facilities Engineering Command rank at the top by both volume and dollar magnitude, indicating consistent operational reliance rather than spot procurements.

The vendor operates under two significant Navy indefinite delivery vehicles: a $250,000 blanket purchase agreement (Naval Installations Command BPA N6945020A0002) carrying nine task orders valued at $146 thousand, and an indefinite delivery contract (N6883620D0002) with 23 task orders valued at $58 thousand. Representative prime work includes a $93,195 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded March 30, 2026, completion September 30, 2026) for deep-sea crane service and bottle-field bank replacement at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Bellview, Florida; a $13,145 total small business set-aside purchase order from Air Education and Training Command (September 30, 2025) for load testing of aircraft lifting equipment at Panama City, Florida; and a $160,833 option-year crane service contract from Naval Supply Systems Command (August 1, 2024) covering portable crane and weight-handling equipment with operator and rigger. Crane capacities cited in awards range from 45-ton to 175-ton units, with most operations performed at Florida military installations.

As a subcontractor, Deep South Crane Rentals delivers crane rental and rigging support under Booz Allen Hamilton on the Autonomous and Automated Weapon System Design (A2WSD) program across multiple task orders awarded between June and February 2025, and provides rigging personnel to HII Mission Technologies for the Advanced Threats Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation program at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida (awarded March 26, 2024). A June 2025 sub-award under RQ Construction covers crane rental with operator for a fitness center construction project.

Recent activity shows variability: 10 awards in 2024, declining to 4 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 through March, though total awards since 1981 number 115 across 18 distinct customer agencies. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $351 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure for the vendor and corresponding competitive opportunity for larger contractors seeking crane and rigging capabilities as a subcontractor component. The vendor's NAICS footprint reflects heavy equipment rental dominance: 41 awards under "All Other Specialty Trade Contractors," 27 under "Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing," and 24 under "Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing."