Fassmer Service America LLC

Fassmer Service America LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Lauderhill, Florida, supplies original equipment manufacturer (OEM) maritime safety equipment — lifeboats, rescue boats, davits, winches, and related components — to the U.S. Navy as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, with occasional subcontract work on vessel maintenance programs. The company is a subsidiary of the Germany-headquartered Fassmer Group, a global maritime safety equipment manufacturer, and competes full-and-open with no SBA set-aside designations; however, several individual awards carry total small business set-aside flags, suggesting episodic participation in that category.

Fassmer's federal customer base is highly concentrated: the Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command accounts for 192 of 200 awards (96%) and $11.6 million of the $12.1 million combined potential value. The Maritime Administration holds four awards worth $403 thousand for rescue boat replacement and davit installation work, including a $353.9 million definitive contract awarded July 3, 2025, for design and construction services for a new davit, lifeboat, and support system at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy waterfront facility in Kings Point, New York, with completion targeted for December 1, 2026. The remaining customer agencies—the Navy (Secretary of the Navy, Department of the Navy proper), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Commerce Department—hold a combined three awards with minimal dollar exposure.

Fassmer's prime award footprint is dominated by firm-fixed-price purchase orders under two indefinite delivery contracts (IDC 693JF721D000007 with two task orders, and IDC 693JF724D000019 with one task order); the vast majority of work flows directly through individual purchase orders from Military Sealift Command. Representative prime work includes a $275.5 million purchase order (September 28, 2022) for 26 hydraulic accumulators, 52 U-brackets, and 208 stainless steel nuts for lifeboat components on the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) hospital ship; a $181.3 million purchase order (March 15, 2023) for a lifeboat block assembly for T-AKE class vessels; a $170.9 million purchase order (September 19, 2022) for two davit arms for the USNS Washington Chambers; and a $158.2 million purchase order (January 12, 2022) for lifeboat spray pumps for TAO 187 class auxiliary oiler vessels. The company also performs sole-source component procurements, repair labor, technical inspections, and annual overhaul services across the Military Sealift Command's auxiliary, sealift, and hospital ship fleet.

Activity has been episodic but consistent: 14 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, 12 in 2024, and 16 in 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 as of the snapshot date (January 13, 2026). The company faces minimal recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months (only two awards with combined potential value of $394 thousand approaching ultimate completion dates within that window). The registered SAM.gov vendor since 2008 brings substantial OEM expertise in specialized maritime safety systems, with contractual authority as the original equipment manufacturer and sole responsible source for proprietary Fassmer-branded lifeboats, davits, and related systems installed on Navy vessels.

In its subcontractor role, Fassmer performs lifeboat and davit inspection, maintenance, and repair labor under prime contractors Vigor Marine LLC and Crowley Government Services, Inc. on Navy vessel overhaul and dry-docking availability programs. Recent sub-awards include work on the USNS Guadalupe (October 17 and August 21, 2025), USNS Matthew Perry (June 12 and March 28, 2025), USNS Washington Chambers (February 20, 2025), USNS Henry J. Kaiser (January 8, 2024), and regulatory inspection tasks on various vessels. The sub-award footprint represents approximately 5% of the total award count, with primes routing work to Fassmer for OEM-level technical expertise and certification.

Fassmer's capability framing across the award portfolio centers on exclusive-source OEM component supply and maintenance of proprietary Fassmer lifesaving systems, with secondary emphasis on lifeboat and davit repair labor, technical inspections, and compliance-driven overhaul services. The company's NAICS concentration reflects that profile: Ship Building and Repairing (64 awards), Other Support Activities for Water Transportation (61 awards), and Boat Building (27 awards) dominate the classification mix. PSC-level concentration mirrors the maritime-equipment focus: Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment (68 awards) and Maintenance, Repair, Rebuild of Ship and Marine Equipment (67 awards) account for the vast majority of procurements.