Heger Dry Dock Inc.

Heger Dry Dock Inc., a small for-profit business based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, provides naval architecture, dry dock inspection, caisson design, and docking operations engineering services to the Department of the Navy as both a prime contractor (39% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (61%). The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its prime work; its subcontract activity runs full-and-open under prime partners on major naval facility modernization programs.

Heger's customer base is entirely naval. The Department of the Navy accounts for 94% of recent awards across five sub-commands: Naval Facilities Engineering Command (9 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards, $304 thousand combined potential value), Naval Supply Systems Command (1 award, $118 thousand), Military Sealift Command (1 award, $50 thousand), and the Army Corps of Engineers (2 awards). The two rankings converge tightly — Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Supply Systems Command anchor nearly all the identified dollar value, while Naval Facilities Engineering Command dominates by award count, signaling a heavy volume of small engineering task orders across domestic and overseas naval shipyards. Heger places work under five naval IDIQ vehicles, with the largest concentration (5 task orders) on Indefinite Delivery Contract N6247820D5035.

Recent prime work includes a $117,500 total small business purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command in February 2026 for control inspection services of Graving Dock #1 at Naval Base San Diego (structural surveys, equipment assessments, flooding and dewatering apparatus, and caisson gate operations observation); a $225,800 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order in April 2022 for graving dock survey services and certification; and a $78,500 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order in August 2021 for course development. Heger's subcontract portfolio centers on naval architecture and dry dock engineering under the primes Moffatt & Nichol - Burns & McDonnell Hawaii (multiple task orders for caisson replacement design, seismic vulnerability assessment, and floating dry dock facility consultation at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam), Stantec Consulting Services Inc. (post-construction award services on the P381 Multi-Mission Dry Dock project at Kittery, Maine), BAE Systems Maritime Solutions San Diego Inc. (USS Halsey CNO availability support), and Mn-Bmcd JV (floating dry dock site evaluation).

Activity has accelerated modestly — one award in 2022 to five in 2024 — though the pipeline has contracted in 2025–2026 (two and three awards, respectively). The combined dollars obligated ($2.6 million) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($474 thousand), reflecting completed and obligated work on historical awards. Heger's capability portfolio is narrow and specialized: engineering and inspection services for naval dry docks, caisson gates, graving dock structural assessment, and vessel-handling equipment — a pure-play naval infrastructure engineering shop with no apparent commercial or civilian agency exposure.

Engineering firm that specializes in the design and inspection of dry docks and providing consultation on all types of dry docking related problems.