Hawthorne Pacific Corp.

Hawthorne Pacific Corp., a subsidiary of Hawthorne Machinery Co. based in San Diego, operates as an authorized Caterpillar dealer and equipment service provider to federal agencies across the Pacific region, competing predominantly as a prime contractor (95% of awards) on non-set-aside purchase orders for heavy equipment repair, maintenance, rental, and parts supply. The company is a for-profit organization headquartered in Waipahu, Hawaii, serving Hawaii, Guam, and other Pacific islands with diesel engines, power generation systems, construction machinery, and related industrial equipment.

Hawthorne Pacific's customer base concentrates heavily on defense and civilian maritime agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 41% of recent awards by count but 58% by potential value, reflecting dollar concentration in Naval Sea Systems Command (21 awards, $2.5 million combined potential value), the Department of the Army (29 awards, $933 thousand), and the U.S. Coast Guard (46 awards, $712 thousand). Naval Facilities Engineering Command ranks second by award count (43 awards) but carries lower potential value ($231 thousand), indicating a high-volume, low-dollar transactional relationship. Navy Installations Command and the Army Installation Management Command Pacific Region round out the customer set. Work performed spans Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and subordinate military installations throughout Hawaii and the Pacific.

Capability portfolio centers on ship repair, heavy equipment repair and maintenance, and equipment rental. Representative prime work includes a $1.79 million Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for parts, material, and equipment for ship repair (ultimate completion March 2024); a $147.3 thousand Pacific Air Forces total small business set-aside for 554 excavator hammers to Guam (completed September 2023); a $109.1 thousand Fish and Wildlife Service purchase order for heavy equipment rental at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge Complex (completed June 2024); and a $104.9 thousand Coast Guard purchase order for SSDG load bank testing services on the USCGC Kimball at Honolulu (completed January 2024). Smaller transactional awards—ranging from $3.3 thousand to $61 thousand—for emergency repairs to Caterpillar skid steers, excavators, generators, and backhoe loaders dominate the National Park Service relationship (recurring repair work at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park) and National Cemetery Administration contracts. Recent awards include a $12.3 thousand Naval Facilities Engineering Command purchase order for switchgear control platform preventative maintenance at Hickam (January 2026) and a $59.1 thousand Coast Guard sole-source purchase order for engine heat shield parts for the CGC Kimball (October 2025).

Award activity has grown modestly—nine awards in 2022 to seventeen in 2025—though the source data reflect a net understatement of historical volume; the portfolio summary reports 405 total awards across all years, while the recent five-year slice yields only 53 awards, indicating a much longer tail of prior work. Only one award (combined potential value $46 thousand) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The top parent vehicles are an Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Coast Guard (32 task orders, $14 thousand combined potential value) and the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V (6 task orders, vehicle details not specified in source). A Blanket Purchase Agreement with Pacific Air Forces (FA524014A0007) carries 4 task orders and $17 thousand combined potential value.

Hawthorne Pacific subcontracts to major defense contractors on logistics, infrastructure, and equipment maintenance programs. Named primes include Vectrus Systems LLC (recurring LOGCAP V subwork for Kwajalein; multiple task orders in 2025 for life support services and equipment maintenance), Granite-Obayashi 2 Joint Venture (subcontract work on 9th Engineer Support Battalion equipment and maintenance facility construction and Guam Defense System enhanced integrated air and missile defense projects), KBR Diego Garcia LLC (CAT engine overhaul technical representation, November 2025), and ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC (equipment rental and maintenance task orders for generator shelters and landscaping equipment). Additional primes include HII Mission Technologies Corp (load bank provisioning and installation), Aptim Federal Services LLC (fuel tank and fire legacy line repair at Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam), and Aktarius LLC (generator support for Inouye Regional Center operations and maintenance). The company's NAICS distribution is dominated by machinery repair and maintenance (71 awards), ship building and repairing (59 awards), and construction machinery rental (55 awards). PSC coding reflects this footprint: miscellaneous construction equipment, miscellaneous ship and marine equipment, generators and generator sets, and non-nuclear ship repair account for the plurality of work.

Hawthorne Pacific competes across both set-aside and full-and-open categories but shows no SBA certification framing in the source. Of recent prime awards, three carry total small business set-aside designations (a $147.3 thousand Air Force excavator hammer buy, a $19.95 thousand Pacific Fleet Forces diesel engine parts order, and a $4.99 thousand Naval Facilities Engineering Command voltage regulator removal and installation), while the vast majority (estimated 90%+) award on full-and-open or sole-source commercial item procedures. The company's federal footprint spans fifty distinct customer agencies, reflecting its role as a regional Caterpillar authorized dealer rather than a specialized vendor focused on narrow customer segments or contract vehicles.

Hawthorne Pacific Corp is a Caterpillar Dealership located in Hawaii. We sell generators, diesel engines, machinery to include service - Coast Guard, Navy and other ship engines and ship generators and have extensive experience in that area.