Marine Travelift Inc.

Marine Travelift Inc., a HUBZone-certified small business manufacturer based in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, designs, fabricates, and delivers specialized marine lifting equipment — principally mobile boat hoists, gantry cranes, and self-propelled transporters — to federal maritime and defense agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open (no set-aside designation on the majority of awards) but holds HUBZone sole-source set-asides on higher-value platform contracts, particularly with the Navy and Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Marine Travelift is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and manufacturer of goods, classified under NAICS 333923 (Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing) with primary PSC coding in Winches, Hoists, Cranes, and Derricks.

The U.S. Coast Guard dominates Marine Travelift's customer footprint by volume and dollars. Across 146 prime awards, the Coast Guard holds 46 awards worth $14.3 million in combined potential value — 62 percent of award count and 28 percent of total dollar value. The Navy's buying footprint fragments across three distinct command lines: Naval Facilities Engineering Command (8 awards, $9.1 million), Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) (11 awards, $265 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards, $3.8 million), together representing about 20 percent of dollars. Department of Defense (Office of the Secretary of Defense) and GSA Federal Acquisition Service round out the top five customers. Representative recent work includes a $5.2 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Coast Guard for mobile marine travel lift delivery, assembly, and testing (Oct 2024); a $4.8 million HUBZone sole-source contract from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for a 300-ton rubber-tire gantry crane at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (May 2024); a $2.97 million HUBZone sole-source contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Command for two 150-metric-ton mobile boat hoists at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (Jul 2023); and a $1.37 million Total Small Business set-aside from Naval Facilities Engineering Command for a 100-metric-ton mobile boat hoist for Naval Special Warfare Group 8 (Feb 2026). Marine Travelift also executes smaller component and parts orders ($15 thousand to $375 thousand) and field repair work across Coast Guard stations and naval facilities.

Activity has contracted in recent years — nine awards in 2024 and six in 2025, down from eight in 2023 — with only one award recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Three awards totaling $7.7 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Marine Travelift places work under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (7 task orders, $3.3 million combined value) and several Navy and Army indefinite delivery contracts, though the source does not specify vehicle ceilings or order frequency on IDCs. The vendor operates as 100 percent prime, with no recorded subcontract activity in the source data. All work is performed at Marine Travelift's primary manufacturing facility in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, with delivery to customer sites nationwide and overseas (including Foreign Military Sales cases such as a $1.5 million Tunisia equipment sale through the Coast Guard in Sep 2025).