Drive Line Service Of Portland, Llc.

Drive Line Service Of Portland, LLC, doing business as Drive Line Service Of Portland Inc., manufactures and overhauls maritime propulsion system components—primarily cardan shafts, propeller shafts, and universal joint assemblies—for the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy as a prime contractor. The company is a for-profit limited liability partnership based in Portland, Oregon, competing under no set-aside designation across its recent award footprint; the underlying indefinite delivery contract with the Coast Guard carries a total small business set-aside, but individual delivery orders and purchase orders are awarded full-and-open.

Drive Line Service operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards), with a heavily concentrated customer base anchored by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard, which accounts for 29 awards and 2.6 million dollars combined potential value—roughly 93% of the vendor's total federal footprint. The top five customers by both award count and potential value cover 97% of combined value, with Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime contributing 7 awards worth $99 thousand and the Navy's Pacific Fleet Forces and Naval Sea Systems Command contributing 2 awards each. Drive Line Service's capstone relationship is a $1.6 million indefinite delivery contract with the Coast Guard awarded in August 2021 for cardan shaft overhaul, inspection, and supply services supporting the 45-foot Response Boat–Medium and 47-foot Motor Life Boat fleets; this IDC ran originally through August 2025 (and has been extended or modified through 2026 based on recent award dates) and has generated 15 task orders worth $547 thousand in combined potential value. Recent representative prime work includes a $96 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Coast Guard (September 2026) for a composite universal joint shaft, a $56 thousand delivery order (February 2026) for overhaul of 20 cardan shafts, and a $36 thousand purchase order (September 2025) for seal-replacement parts kits.

Activity has declined materially—eight awards in 2022 dropping to three in both 2024 and 2026—with only one award ($97 thousand combined potential value) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. The vendor's subcontractor footprint is minimal (3% of recent awards), limited to two sub-awards: a May 2026 composite driveshaft shipset sub to Vigor Works LLC and a September 2025 cardan shaft assembly procurement sub to QED Systems, Inc. Place of performance splits between the vendor's Portland, Oregon facility and the Coast Guard's Curtis Bay Industrial Area in Baltimore, Maryland. Drive Line Service's capability portfolio, grounded in NAICS 332610 (Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing) and PSC codes for ship and marine equipment maintenance and repair, is narrowly specialized in cardan and propeller shaft overhaul, inspection, universal joint assembly, and related seal and bearing maintenance—with 23 of 60 recent awards in mechanical power transmission manufacturing and 22 in ship and marine equipment maintenance and repair services.