Gravois Aluminum Boats LLC

Gravois Aluminum Boats LLC, operating under the Metal Shark Boats division, manufactures custom welded aluminum and steel vessels for federal maritime agencies as a prime contractor on a portfolio dominated by Navy and Coast Guard patrol boats, response vessels, and specialized maritime platforms. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurement, with recurring total small business set-asides on select boat-production contracts; the vast majority of recent awards carry no set-aside designation. Gravois Aluminum Boats LLC is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Jeanerette, Louisiana, with a named subsidiary, Shark Tech LLC, certified as a small disadvantaged business.

Metal Shark's customer concentration is extreme: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard account for 98 percent of combined potential value across the 572-award portfolio. NAVSEA leads in dollar terms — 79 awards worth $1.99 billion combined potential value — while the Coast Guard dominates in award volume with 415 orders valued at $727.7 million. Representative work includes a $291.979 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with NAVSEA for 40-foot patrol boats for the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command set aside for small businesses through May 2031; a $4.956 million single-award Coast Guard IDC for marine hardware, hull items, and boat parts running through January 2027; a $20.939 million NAVSEA delivery order for 40-foot patrol boat Foreign Military Sales variants to an unnamed partner nation (June 2025); a $16.429 million NAVSEA definitive contract for 38-foot Defiant-class fast assault boats for Romania FMS cases RO-P-LAW and RO-P-LBD (January 2025); and a $9.633 million Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement delivery order for small-boat supply and delivery to the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (June 2026). Recent work spans boat production, Foreign Military Sales deliveries and sustainment, and maintenance-parts supply across domestic and overseas locations.

Metal Shark places task orders across five primary vehicle lines. The NAVSEA 40-foot patrol boat multiple-award IDC anchors the portfolio at $291.979 billion. The Coast Guard maintains multiple IDCs: a $4.956 million single-award contract for marine hardware through January 2027 has generated 52 delivery orders worth $5.6 million since January 2022; HSCG4010DK50017 has placed 39 orders totaling $414 thousand; HSCG4016D53003 has placed 52 orders valued at $5.6 million; and HSCG2311DMOT003 has generated 22 orders worth $138.2 million. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule has produced 32 task orders valued at $82.7 million. Top NAICS categories are Boat Building (235 awards), Ship Building and Repairing (183 awards), and All Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (79 awards); top PSCs are Small Craft (143 awards) and Marine Hardware and Hull Items (103 awards).

Activity has contracted from 19 awards in 2022 to 8 in the first nine months of 2026, with 15 awards (combined potential value $92.1 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. Metal Shark holds negligible subcontract exposure: two sub-awards on record — a spares-vessel-set sub to Atlantic Diving Supply Inc. (October 2024) and a payload-modularity-and-integration materials purchase sub to Textron Systems Corporation (December 2023) — represent less than 1 percent of the portfolio. The company obligated $735.5 million (25 percent of combined potential value) across all awards in the source data snapshot, indicating substantial backlog execution.

Metal Shark is a leading designer and builder of custom vessels for commercial, defence, rescue and law enforcement applications worldwide. Metal Shark is a leading supplier to the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, and partner nations worldwide, delivering over 100 boats annually from 16'-200'. Commercial and military shipbuilding capabilities include port security, survey and patrol ships as well as large passenger, crew supply and pilot vessels.

More than simply a boat builder, Metal Shark serves as a top-to-bottom solutions provider, routinely partnering with customers to assist in all phases of the ownership cycle: design, construction, delivery and operation. From working together to determine the perfect boat for their mission requirements, to on-water delivery and training, customers trust Metal Shark to be with them every step of the way.