Innovative Professional Solutions, Inc.

Innovative Professional Solutions, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Panama City, Florida, operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) delivering naval engineering, equipment repair, software development, and supply services to the Department of Defense. The vendor holds a Subchapter S corporation structure and competes predominantly on full-and-open and sole-source awards, with a secondary footprint in woman-owned small business set-asides.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme: Naval Sea Systems Command anchors 199 of 221 awards (98% by count) and $10.35 billion in combined potential value across the portfolio. The Marine Corps, Naval Supply Systems Command, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, and Naval Air Systems Command represent the remaining customer agencies. This concentration reflects IPS's deep specialization in naval mine warfare systems, minesweeping equipment, sonar components, and shipboard electrical and mechanical subsystems.

IPS's capability footprint centers on equipment repair and production for legacy U.S. Navy mine countermeasure and combat ship systems, leveraging twenty-five-plus years of original-manufacturer technical knowledge and OEM training. Representative work includes a $13.6 million definitive contract awarded January 2026 for minesweeping winches (AC Hoyle Model S-530) on Republic of Korea Navy ships through June 2030, performed in Panama City, Florida on a firm-fixed-price basis; an $8.49 million delivery order under Seaport-NXG issued May 2026 for Mine Warfare and Environmental Decision Aids Library (MEDAL) software development and support through May 2031, priced cost-plus-fixed-fee; and multiple sole-source purchase orders for repair, refurbishment, and labor on Advanced Acoustic Generators, Battle Space Profiler winches, Avenger-class Precise Integrated Navigation System acoustic Doppler current profiler sensors, minesweeping cutters, and electrical connector and circuit-card-assembly production for sonar systems. The vendor also delivers manufacturing services for naval floats, pods, and stern planes, and provides project management and logistics support under defense programs.

The vendor sits on two primary parent vehicles: SeaPort-e (29 task orders, $206.9 million combined potential value) and Seaport Next Generation (10 task orders, $144.9 million combined potential value). Both are Navy-managed IDIQs supporting engineering, technical, and logistics services. Task-order volume on these vehicles represents a major concentration point — of 50 task orders across the two vehicles, 39 are placed under sole-source or no-set-aside designations, with sole-source justifications consistently citing IPS's unique in-house expertise in maintaining systems for which the original equipment manufacturer no longer provides support or for which competitive technical data packages would be cost-prohibitive given fleet decommissioning timelines and strict mine countermeasure equipment requirements.

Activity has declined year over year — thirteen awards in 2022 to six in 2026 — though the decline reflects the large, multi-year definitional contract awards that dominate the portfolio. Five awards (combined potential value $116.4 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. The vendor delivered $4.3 million in SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2022 across 33.8 contract-level full-time equivalents; SCI records are sparse for FY2023 through FY2025, reflecting the predominance of equipment manufacturing and repair work (which falls outside SCI scope) and the vendor's shift to larger multi-year delivery orders that generate invoicing across extended performance periods. Government-paid hourly rates on the two SCI prime records averaged $62/hr (median), a pricing posture consistent with labor-heavy engineering and repair services. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for roughly 5% of total contractor hours, with seven named subs reported.

IPS operates predominantly as a prime contractor delivering its own work. As a named subcontractor, the vendor performs under Booz Allen Hamilton (maritime mission systems support and autonomous weapon system design engineering) and Science Applications International Corporation (fiberglass Conex roof panel engineering design and test and evaluation for Naval Air Systems Command). The subcontractor footprint is minimal relative to prime activity and does not materially shape the vendor's positioning — IPS is characteristically the prime holding specialized naval equipment expertise.

Provide engineering services specializing in Sea Mines, MCM, UUV Testing, Environmental Testing, Weapon Systems Eng, EOD. Provide ILS support to US Navy systems, including In-Service Mines, MCM, & SPECWAR Systems. Develop tech manuals for DoD systems.