Mills Marine & Ship Repair LLC

Mills Marine & Ship Repair LLC, a minority-owned, veteran-owned SBA 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business based in Suffolk, Virginia, provides ship repair, maintenance, insulation services, and touch labor support to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on aircraft carrier refueling and complex overhaul programs. The company operates as a limited liability partnership and competes predominantly under full-and-open and 8(a) set-aside designations, with 8(a) Sole Source and Competitive 8(a) set-asides anchoring the highest-value work.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with Naval Sea Systems Command. The top five funding agencies account for 89% of recent awards by count, but the dollars are dominated almost entirely by Naval Sea Systems Command, which accounts for 50 awards carrying $14.46 billion in combined potential value — 99% of Mills Marine's total federal pipeline. The remaining customer base — the U.S. Coast Guard (26 awards, $6.1 million), Naval Supply Systems Command (16 awards, $15.9 million), U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) (11 awards, $2.7 million), and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (3 awards, $128.7 million) — represents tactical volume rather than strategic revenue concentration. This extreme NAVSEA dependency creates substantial recompete risk: five awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $58.3 million.

Mills Marine holds multiple large IDIQ vehicles anchoring its competitive position. On the Naval Sea Systems Command side, the company secured a $242.99 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded March 27, 2025, for non-nuclear production support services at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, covering shipfitter, machinist, weight handler, material handling equipment, fire watch, production controller, and administrative labor through March 26, 2030. Four delivery orders totaling approximately $12.7 million have been issued under this vehicle since March 2025, all cost-plus-fixed-fee structures with completion dates through June 2026. A second NAVSEA vehicle — a $114.02 million multiple-award IDIQ for production workforce division support at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, awarded March 9, 2026, through March 8, 2031 — procures qualified maritime trades including marine electrician, insulator, pipefitter, outside machinist, painter, rigger, shipfitter, shipwright, welder, forklift operator, and sheet metal worker on a firm fixed-price level-of-effort basis. A $48.5 million Competitive 8(a) definitive contract awarded October 13, 2023, for third-party fire watch support during refueling and complex overhaul of CVN 74 (USS John C. Stennis), with options for CVN 75, runs through October 12, 2028, and represents the company's single largest active prime contract. A $7 million 8(a) Sole Source definitive contract for painting and lagging services on CVN 74 was awarded September 30, 2025, completing September 30, 2026. Mills Marine also holds a $25.18 million Competitive 8(a) IDIQ awarded December 4, 2024, for blue-collar installation and industrial trade technical services supporting Navy modernization of hull, mechanical, and electrical systems, and a $2.78 million Coast Guard total small business set-aside IDIQ through January 2029 for insulation repairs on 210-foot and 270-foot cutters. Recent Coast Guard delivery orders include a $125.6 thousand order for CGC FORWARD insulation repairs (October 26, 2026, completing November 20, 2026), a $50.5 thousand order for CGC Escanaba (May 18, 2026, completing June 10, 2026), and a $73.2 thousand order for CGC FORWARD (April 8, 2026, completing May 7, 2026).

Mills Marine also maintains a $475 thousand GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract through January 14, 2029, authorizing delivery orders nationwide for marine craft repairing and engineering services under Special Item Numbers 336611 and 541330ENG. The GSA Schedule carries seven labor categories spanning $43.93 to $90.51 per hour — laborer, administrative assistant, shipfitter engineering tech, welder engineering tech, engineer tech III and V, and production controller — all high-school education, no security clearance required, with experience requirements ranging from two to ten years.

The company's primary NAICS footprint is Ship Building and Repairing (37 awards), with secondary concentration in Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (34 awards) and Engineering Services (20 awards). Top PSC categories are Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment — Materials Handling Equipment (33 awards) and Non-Nuclear Ship Repair (East) (31 awards).

In its subcontractor role, Mills Marine performs elevator support unit technical repair, deck edge door drum removal, lagging and painting, and labor support on USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) refueling and complex overhaul work under HII Fleet Support Group LLC as prime, with multiple sub-awards issued between January 2024 and February 2026.

Activity grew from seven awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2025, with modest recent decline (ten awards in 2026 year-to-date). The company has received 120 total awards across its federal footprint since 2014, with $14.62 billion in combined potential value but only $87.7 million (1%) currently obligated. This discrepancy reflects the inherent structure of large IDIQ vehicles, where ceiling values are front-loaded but actual ordering occurs incrementally over the performance period. The recompete cliff — five awards completing in the next twenty-four months with $58.3 million combined value — presents material turnover risk concentrated in NAVSEA's Portsmouth shipyard and Coast Guard insulation repair vehicles.

Ship Repair company providing quality skilled and professional personnel for government agencies/activities. Also providing engineering and technical services for planning, budgeting and estimating maintenance, as well as, manufacturing, warehousing and storage support and temporary labor services.

Note: We currently have an active line of credit to fund our contracts.