Hawthorne Pacific Corp.

Hawthorne Pacific Corp., a for-profit subsidiary of Hawthorne Machinery Co. based in Waipahu, Hawaii, operates as the authorized Caterpillar dealer for Hawaii, Guam, and other Pacific islands, delivering diesel generator and heavy equipment maintenance, parts procurement, ship repair, and equipment rental services to federal customers as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders with occasional small business set-aside participation.

Hawthorne Pacific Corp. competes predominantly outside set-asides, with 95% of recent awards issued as prime contracts and the remaining 5% as subcontract work; of the prime awards, set-aside designations (Total Small Business, where applied) appear on roughly 15–20% of named contracts. The company carries no formal SBA designations. The parent corporation, Hawthorne Machinery Co., based in San Diego, California, anchors the organizational structure; Hawthorne Pacific Corp. operates as a regional division serving the Pacific theater with specialized expertise in Caterpillar-branded equipment and industrial power systems. From 2022 through 2026, the vendor has logged over 400 total federal awards (prime and sub combined) with a combined potential value of $9.3 million and combined obligated dollars of $37.9 million, indicating a mature, active contracting footprint with deep customer relationships and repeat task order placement.

Federal customer concentration clusters around maritime and logistics operations in the Pacific. The top five customer agencies by award count account for roughly 41% of awards: Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard (46 awards, $712 thousand), Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (43 awards, $231 thousand), Department of the Army (29 awards, $933 thousand), Department of the Navy Installations Command (26 awards, $681 thousand), and Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (22 awards, $2.6 million). When ranked by combined potential value, Naval Sea Systems Command dominates ($2.6 million across 22 awards), followed by the Army ($933 thousand across 29 awards) and the Coast Guard ($712 thousand across 46 awards); this divergence signals that NAVSEA issues fewer but larger contracts while Coast Guard and Army place higher volume of smaller repair and maintenance orders. The top five customers by potential value account for 57% of combined potential value, reflecting substantial concentration among maritime and Army logistics customers.

Work is performed at Hawaii-based federal installations, including Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and naval vessels homeported in Honolulu; the vendor also executes projects in Guam and other Pacific island territories. Representative prime work includes a $1.79 million Naval Sea Systems Command parts, material, and equipment ship repair purchase order (August 2023), a $147.3 thousand Air Force Pacific Air Forces excavator hammers supply order under Total Small Business set-aside (July 2023), a $109.1 thousand Fish and Wildlife Service heavy equipment rental contract (January 2023), a $104.9 thousand Coast Guard SSDG load bank testing contract for the USCGC Kimball (January 2024), a $72.1 thousand Department of Agriculture emergency backup generator maintenance contract at the Daniel K. Inouye Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii (September 2026), a $61.1 thousand National Park Service heavy equipment repair contract at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (September 2024), and a $59.1 thousand Coast Guard engine heat shield parts procurement for the CGC Kimball (October 2025). The vendor also executes smaller discrete maintenance and repair tasks (five-figure and sub-five-figure range) across Navy Facilities, Army Pacific, and Interior Department property maintenance portfolios.

Primary capability concentrations map to NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and associated equipment maintenance categories: the top three NAICS include Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (72 awards), Ship Building and Repairing (60 awards), and Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing (55 awards). Top PSC codes include Miscellaneous Construction Equipment (23 awards), Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment (20 awards), Generators and Generator Sets Electrical (20 awards), Non-Nuclear Ship Repair (West) (20 awards), and Lease or Rental of Equipment Miscellaneous (20 awards). This category mix underscores the vendor's market position as a regional heavy-equipment and power-systems service provider anchored to Caterpillar original equipment and parts.

Hawthorne Pacific Corp. operates under two principal parent contract vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract N6274200A2615 (32 task orders, $14 thousand combined potential value) and the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V (6 task orders, scope not valued in parent vehicle block). Additional vehicles include BPA FA524014A0007 (4 task orders, $17 thousand combined potential value) and facility construction-support IDCs. The vendor's task order placement across these vehicles signals access to standing solicitation frameworks, though the dollar volumes on the named parent vehicles are modest relative to the total portfolio, indicating that most awards flow through standalone purchase-order channels rather than parent-vehicle calldowns.

In its subcontractor role (5% of recent awards), Hawthorne Pacific Corp. delivers equipment, parts, and technical support under primes including Granite-Obayashi 2 Joint Venture (generator supply and CAT engine overhaul support for military construction), KBR Diego Garcia LLC (technical representative support for 16K engine overhaul), V2X Systems LLC (Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V work at Kwajalein), HII Mission Technologies Corp (load bank installation), Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics LLC (equipment and machinery maintenance at military installations), and Aptim Federal Services LLC (fuel tank and infrastructure repair work at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam). These sub relationships reflect the vendor's role as a regional equipment and logistics supplier to prime contractors executing military construction, facility operations, and sustainment contracts across the Pacific.

Award activity has remained steady: 9 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 11 in 2024, 17 in 2025, and 4 awards in the first three weeks of 2026 (most recent award dated September 18, 2026). The vendor maintains an active sales cycle and a diverse customer base spanning coastal defense, maritime operations, Army logistics, national parks, and civilian agencies. No material recompete cliff is evident in the source data; awards are structured as discrete purchase orders with service-specific completion dates rather than long-term IDCs or GSA schedules, reducing recompete concentration risk but also indicating reliance on repeat business development across many smaller customer relationships rather than anchored platform contracts.

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.