Mackay Communications, Inc.

Mackay Communications, Inc., doing business as Mackay Marine, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based for-profit maritime electronics and shipboard systems integrator, operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) supplying federal customers with voyage data recorders, electronic chart display systems, satellite communications equipment, radar systems, and navigational bridge components. The vendor competes primarily in the full-and-open market without SBA set-aside designations, though recent activity includes scattered total-small-business set-aside awards from the Coast Guard, NOAA, and Military Sealift Command. Mackay Marine maintains an active SAM.gov registration dating to 2002 and has accumulated 401 federal awards across nearly four decades.

Customer concentration centers on naval maritime operations. The Department of the Navy accounts for the majority of award volume: Naval Sea Systems Command holds 19 awards worth $1.4 million combined potential value and Military Sealift Command holds 80 awards worth $1.2 million. The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard places 53 awards valued at $756 thousand. These three customers alone represent 68% of all recent awards and 76% of combined potential value. Mackay Marine also maintains ongoing relationships with the Drug Enforcement Administration (22 awards, $45 thousand), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (15 awards, $257 thousand), and the Secretary of the Navy (6 awards, $211 thousand). Across 36 distinct federal agencies, the vendor's footprint remains concentrated on shipboard systems sustainment and maritime equipment procurement.

Recent representative work spans voyage data recorder kits ($258,000 to Naval Sea Systems Command in March 2026; $224,000 in February 2024), GMDSS satellite distress system replacement for NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker ($21,936.71 in September 2026), navigational bridge equipment service aboard Military Sealift Command vessels ($20,471 for USNS Mercy in January 2025), electronic chart display systems for carrier strike groups ($40,537 to U.S. Fleet Forces Command Atlantic in August 2025), and equipment repairs and upgrades for vessels in class from the Medical Support Operations ($14,032 ECDIS troubleshooting on USNS Miguel Keith in April 2023). The vendor also supplies smaller-value consumables and services including radar maintenance, gyro compass repairs, cable assemblies, and satellite phone airtime renewals.

Mackay Marine's primary vehicle footprint includes Indefinite Delivery Contract N6523696D5010 (22 task orders), DAEA3093D0003 (4 task orders), and N3198000D4004 (3 task orders), along with blanket purchase agreements 23028123X2116 and 50ABNA217913. Award activity has grown modestly year over year — 7 awards in 2022 and 2023, 9 in 2024, and 14 in 2025 — with only 2 awards (combined potential value $23 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete risk in the near term. The vendor serves as a subcontractor to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company on ship spare parts and construction support (four recent sub-awards, including T-AO 205 and Expeditionary Sea Base components awarded in 2024–2025) and to Crowley Government Services, Inc. on vessel operations and maintenance, supplying magnetic compass upgrades and bridge repairs through June 2025.

NAICS concentration reflects the maritime equipment specialization: Ship Building and Repairing (80 awards), Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (56 awards), and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (39 awards) account for the majority of categorized work. PSC coding further segments the footprint across Non-Nuclear Ship Repair West and East (108 combined awards), Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment-Ship and Marine Equipment (36 awards), and Communications Security Equipment and Components (29 awards).