Mills Marine & Ship Repair LLC

Mills Marine & Ship Repair LLC, an SBA 8(a) certified minority-owned, veteran-owned, and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Suffolk, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) delivering maritime repair, maintenance, modernization, and touch-labor support to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. The company is structured as a limited liability partnership and competes predominantly under 8(a) set-asides and total small business designations across its prime footprint.

Mills Marine's customer concentration is heavily anchored to the Navy. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command dominates by both award count and dollar value—49 awards representing 14.51 billion dollars combined potential value, an overwhelmingly large share of the company's 14.67 billion-dollar total portfolio. This concentration reflects Mills Marine's core role as a touch-labor and production-support provider at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and as a fire-watch and specialized-maintenance contractor on aircraft carrier refueling and complex overhauls. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard is the second customer by award count (25 awards, 6 million dollars combined potential value) but represents a fractional share of potential dollars. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, and U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) round out the active set. The gap between award-count ranking and potential-value ranking is decision-relevant: NAVSEA's 49 awards carry outsized dollar weight because they include large IDIQ vehicles and fixed-price definitive contracts for major carrier maintenance campaigns, whereas Coast Guard awards are numerous but modestly valued insulation-repair delivery orders.

Mills Marine holds multiple large IDIQ vehicles. The company sits on a 114 million-dollar multiple-award IDIQ with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded March 2026, completion March 2031) for production-workforce support at Norfolk Naval Shipyard covering marine electricians, insulators, pipefitters, machinists, painters, riggers, shipfitters, shipwrights, welders, and forklift operators on a firm fixed price level-of-effort basis. It also holds a 243 million-dollar partial small business multiple-award IDIQ with Naval Sea Systems Command for non-nuclear production support services at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard through March 2030, under which Mills Marine has been issued four touch-labor delivery orders collectively valued at approximately 12.7 million dollars and completed through June 2026. A 75 million-dollar competitive 8(a) IDIQ awarded December 2024 by Naval Sea Systems Command covers blue-collar installation and technical services for Navy hull, mechanical, and electrical system modernization through December 2029. The Coast Guard awarded Mills Marine a 2.78 million-dollar total small business set-aside IDIQ (effective January 2024, completion January 2029) for insulation repairs on 210-foot and 270-foot cutters at Portsmouth, Virginia and subordinate locations. Mills Marine also maintains a 475 million-dollar GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (January 2024 through January 2029) authorizing nationwide ordering for marine craft repair and engineering services under Special Item Numbers for shipbuilding/repair, engineering services, and materials.

Concrete recent capability examples include a 48.5 million-dollar competitive 8(a) definitive contract awarded October 2023 by Naval Sea Systems Command for third-party fire-watch support during refueling and complex overhaul of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and optionally CVN 75, with a cost-plus-fixed-fee structure and completion through October 2028. Mills Marine also delivered a 7 million-dollar 8(a) sole source definitive contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for painting and lagging on CVN 74 with completion September 2026. Under the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard master IDIQ, Mills Marine received delivery orders for shipfitter labor (3.62 million dollars, completion June 2026), shipwright labor (2.26 million dollars, completion March 2026), outside machinist labor (3.23 million dollars, completion March 2026), and weight-handler touch labor (3.60 million dollars, completion August 2026), all on cost-plus-fixed-fee terms. Coast Guard delivery orders include insulation repairs on CGC Escanaba (50 thousand dollars, May 2026), CGC Forward (73 thousand dollars, May 2026), CGC Seneca (35 thousand dollars, March 2026), and CGC Vigorous (40 thousand dollars, January 2026), all firm fixed price.

Mills Marine's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans seven active categories at hourly rates ranging from 43.93 to 90.51 dollars, all requiring high school education with two to ten years of experience and no security-cleared positions. The rate spectrum covers laborers, administrative assistants, shipfitter and welder technicians, and production controllers, grounding the company's capability profile in maritime trades and shipyard support labor.

Activity has been volatile year to year—seven awards in 2022, three in 2023, ten in 2024, fourteen in 2025, and eight through mid-2026—but the combined potential value across all awards is 14.67 billion dollars against only 87.2 million dollars obligated (1% realization rate), meaning Mills Marine carries substantial unexercised ceiling on its large IDIQ vehicles. Within the next twenty-four months, six awards carry combined potential value of 26.3 million dollars and face recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Mills Marine delivers elevator support and carrier engineering maintenance technical repair labor to HII Fleet Support Group LLC supporting CVN 74 refueling and complex overhaul, with multiple sub awards from 2024 through February 2026.

Mills Marine's award portfolio concentrates in ship building and repair (35 awards), commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance (34 awards), engineering services (20 awards), and specialty trade contracting (12 awards) by NAICS code. By PSC, the company's work skews toward material handling equipment maintenance and repair (33 awards), non-nuclear ship repair (29 awards), and engineering and technical support services (18 awards). The company's footprint reflects a specialized, labor-intensive maritime maintenance and production-support model anchored to Navy shipyard operations and Coast Guard cutter maintenance rather than diversified federal service delivery.

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.