Gaylord Marine Services, Inc.

Gaylord Marine Services, Inc., a small, for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Tualatin, Oregon, manufactures and supplies specialized marine equipment and components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 99 percent of its recent federal awards, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations on substantially all purchase orders despite holding a small-business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Defense Logistics Agency.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on discrete marine and electrical components: solenoid valves, thermostatic switches, electronic switches, hydraulic pumps, fuseholders, check valves, ball valves, damper controls, grease interceptor hoods, and fire protection systems for naval vessels and DLA supply chain operations. Representative prime work includes a $50,373 Military Sealift Command purchase order for a grease interceptor hood and ANSUL R-102 fire protection system for USNS Lucy Stone (T-AO 209), awarded March 26, 2026, with performance in Sherwood, Oregon and delivery to Naval Base Norfolk by January 1, 2027; a $66,979.87 Naval Sea Systems Command total-small-business purchase order for grease interceptor hoods, awarded September 9, 2023; and a $43,632 Military Sealift Command award for galley equipment and grease interceptor installation on USNS Earl Warren (T-AO 207), awarded July 24, 2024. The vendor also holds an active Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Land and Maritime, ceiling $250,000, established January 7, 2021, structured to supply switches, push buttons, and related marine components to support military logistics operations across DLA depots.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Defense supply and maintenance ecosystem. The top five funding entities account for 94 percent of awards by count and 99 percent by combined potential value: DLA Land and Maritime leads on volume (128 awards, $560 thousand combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the largest dollar concentration (16 awards, $594 thousand), and Military Sealift Command, DLA Construction and Equipment, and DLA Aviation round out the set. The two rankings diverge meaningfully—Naval Sea Systems Command places fewer orders but larger per-order value, driven by vessel-specific galley and fire-safety equipment; DLA Land and Maritime issues numerous small, routine component replenishment orders that aggregate to lower total value. The vendor's primary NAICS categories span switchgear manufacturing (20 awards), industrial valve manufacturing (16 awards), and motor vehicle merchant wholesaling (15 awards), with PSC concentration in switches (55 awards), powered valves (15 awards), and pumps (12 awards).

Activity has grown year over year from three awards in 2022 to 26 in 2024 and 27 in 2025, reflecting steady demand for small-lot marine component replenishment. The combined potential value across all 191 prime and sub awards is $1.5 million, with obligated dollars tracking at 101 percent of potential value—indicating that actual invoiced spend has matched or exceeded contract ceilings, a signal of consistent task order flow. Gaylord Marine Services operates almost exclusively under purchase order authority from DLA depots and Naval commands; the vendor has minimal leverage on government-wide vehicles or large IDVs and instead accumulates revenue through frequent small, firm-fixed-price task orders against its standing DLA Land and Maritime IDV and direct Military Sealift Command solicitations.

Subcontract engagement is negligible (2 of 191 awards, 1 percent). The vendor subcontracts to Delphinus Engineering, Inc. (ceiling increase for grease interceptor base requirements, November 12, 2024) and to Metro Machine Corp (cost execution for non-commercial work, August 27, 2024), signaling limited prime-relationship role and primarily direct-to-federal positioning. Gaylord Marine Services has been registered in SAM since 2001 and maintains steady performance across DLA and Navy requirements, positioning itself as a reliable component supplier rather than a systems integrator or prime systems contractor.