Global Diving & Salvage, Inc.

Global Diving & Salvage, Inc., a for-profit marine services company and subsidiary of Moran Environmental Recovery, LLC headquartered in Seattle, Washington, delivers oil spill response, hazardous materials remediation, vessel salvage, and maritime emergency services as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) exclusively to the U.S. Coast Guard and secondary federal customers. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its entire footprint.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with the Coast Guard. The Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard accounts for 366 awards and $153.1 million in combined potential value—80% of the vendor's award count and 91% of its potential value across all 28 customer agencies served. All other customers combined contribute marginal value; the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 places the next-largest single-customer commitment at $5.3 million across two awards. The Coast Guard's dominance is structural: Global Diving & Salvage holds two active Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) with the Coast Guard—one valued at $3.9 million awarded April 1, 2025, expiring March 31, 2027, and a second valued at $990 thousand awarded September 13, 2021, expiring April 2, 2025—from which the Coast Guard has issued over 80 delivery orders totaling more than $18 million in combined obligations through mid-2026. The vendor's top BOA vehicle by task-order count, HSCG8414AA00014, carries 147 task orders worth $40.2 million; three other Coast Guard BOAs each anchor 27 to 73 delivery orders. Delivery orders run time-and-materials, with individual ceiling values typically $2,000 to $430,000, and span geographic performance across U.S. Sectors (Puget Sound, San Francisco, Columbia River, Southeast Alaska, Hawaii, New Orleans) and inland waterways.

The award portfolio is heavily concentrated in environmental remediation services under NAICS 562920 (Remediation Services), which accounts for 353 of 532 awards. The PSC coding aligns: 349 awards fall under Environmental Systems Protection—Oil Spill Response, with secondary categories including salvage work (marine vessels and other), ship construction and repair support, and environmental remediation. Representative prime work includes delivery orders for oil spill mitigation labor, materials, and equipment in Puget Sound ($430.3 thousand, May 2024), Hawaii ($377 thousand, February 2023), and a $4.6 million Kodiak, Alaska response (August 2021); a $152 thousand oil spill mitigation delivery order in Hawaii (November 2025); fuel hose procurement ($15.4 thousand, firm-fixed-price, November 2024); and vessel salvage work for the National Park Service ($106.7 thousand, August 2021) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ($87 thousand, July 2021). Notably, one delivery order (UCGPS22025, August 2022) carried a $6.2 million ceiling for comprehensive oil spill response in Puget Sound.

Activity has held steady at 18 to 29 awards per year over the past five years, with a slight decline in 2026 (only 6 awards to date through July) reflecting the snapshot timing. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only one award valued at $60 thousand reaches ultimate completion in that window, and the April 2, 2025 expiration of the $990 thousand BOA is the primary vehicle cliff. The April 2025 BOA renewal already occurred on April 1, 2025, with a new $3.9 million BOA extension, suggesting continuity of the Coast Guard relationship.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue across prime service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold totaled $36.5 million over FY2022–FY2024: $18 million in FY2022, $7.2 million in FY2023, and $11.3 million in FY2024. The FTE trajectory shows 14.5 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 4.0 in FY2023 and holding at 4.1 in FY2024, suggesting either a shift toward smaller delivery orders, sub-reporting consolidation, or mission composition changes not captured in the SCI dataset. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $559 per hour, with a 10th percentile of $405/hr and 90th percentile of $1,351/hr, framing a labor-intensive operation with skilled technical personnel (divers, salvage supervisors) occupying the rate premium. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average 26% of total hours—a material sub-engagement pattern—across 12 named subcontractors on SCI records.

Subcontract activity shows Global Diving & Salvage supplying diving, booming, and salvage support to defense primes. Named primes include Vigor Marine LLC (USS Gabrielle Giffords and USS Kidd docking and maintenance support, February–March 2025), Nova Group, Inc. (ammunition wharf repairs diving services, July–September 2024), Oceanetics Inc. (dive team, tug, and crane support for barrier sustainment, October 2025), and Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (refloating and defueling operations, July 2025). The vendor also operates a named subsidiary, Global Inshore, Inc., whose role is not detailed in the source.

Global Diving & Salvage operates as the largest diving contractor on the West Coast with over two decades of federal contracting experience. The Coast Guard awards carry no socioeconomic set-aside designation, indicating full-and-open competition and selection based on technical merit and specialized capabilities in maritime emergency response rather than small-business status.