Ems Ice, Inc.

Ems Ice, Inc., doing business as Ems Ice, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, provides specialized cryogenic and dry ice ventilation cleaning services to the U.S. Navy as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on naval ship repair programs. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation under NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its prime footprint.

Ems Ice's customer concentration is heavily consolidated with the Department of the Navy, which accounts for 159 of 170 total awards. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) dominates the relationship, placing 86 awards worth $6.9 million in combined potential value—94% of all awards. Additional Navy customers include United States Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) with 15 awards worth $219 thousand, United States Pacific Fleet Forces with 12 awards worth $772 thousand, and Military Sealift Command with 5 awards worth $88 thousand. One GSA Federal Acquisition Service award for $1 million rounds out the portfolio. The rankings align closely on both volume and dollars, with NAVSEA anchoring the business entirely.

Ems Ice's capability work centers on shipboard ventilation system cleaning using cryogenic and dry ice technology, performed on Navy vessels ranging from attack and ballistic-missile submarines to aircraft carriers and destroyers, with work performed at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Kings Bay Base, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and aboard ships in Japan. Representative prime awards include a $389.8 thousand firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded September 30, 2024, for vent cleaning and balancing services at Ship Repair Facility Japan (Sasebo) under total small business set-aside; a $189.8 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order awarded September 12, 2025, for on-site ventilation cleaning services aboard the USS Avenger mine countermeasures ship, also under total small business set-aside; and a $249.2 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order awarded March 1, 2023, for cryogenic cleaning services aboard USS Georgia at Kings Bay under full-and-open (no set-aside). Ems Ice also holds a $1.2 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with NAVSEA for ventilation duct cleaning across multiple Navy sites, generating recurring task orders.

On parent vehicles, Ems Ice places work under multiple Navy indefinite delivery contracts: N4002505D5005 (7 task orders, $97 thousand combined value), N0002421D4114 (4 task orders), N4002719D1001 (2 task orders), and a non-complex maintenance contract for surface combatant and amphibious ships based in Norfolk (3 task orders). A Federal Supply Schedule contract (GS10F0066U) carries 2 task orders worth $171 thousand in combined potential value.

Activity has accelerated in recent years—2 awards in 2022 growing to 20 awards in 2024, with 14 awards in 2025 and 1 award so far in 2026. The combined obligated amount ($14.9 million) exceeds the combined potential value ($9.4 million), indicating high contract turnover and repeat task-order execution. Activity concentrates in primary NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing, 142 awards) and Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings (14 awards), with PSC codes dominated by maintenance and repair of refrigeration/air conditioning equipment (45 awards) and ship and marine equipment repair (34 awards).

In its subcontractor role, Ems Ice delivers cryogenic ventilation cleaning and dry ice cleaning services to major naval repair primes including HII Fleet Support Group LLC, BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC, BAE Systems Maritime Solutions Norfolk Inc., East Coast Repair & Fabrication LLC, Metro Machine Corp., Vigor Marine LLC, and Marine Hydraulics International LLC on surface combatant and amphibious-class ship maintenance and docking selected restricted availability (DSRA) programs. Subcontract work is named on contracts for USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), USS Gravely (DDG-107), USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), USS Wasp (LHD-1), USS John S McCain (DDG 56), and numerous destroyers and assault ships across Norfolk and Mayport naval stations and overseas locations.

Provide patented cryogenic (dry ice) shipboard ventilation system cleaning.