Navantia, S.a., S.m.e.

Navantia, S.a., S.m.e., a Madrid-based Spanish shipbuilding and maritime defense company, holds a single-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the Department of the Navy and operates as the prime contractor for surface combatant ship repair, maintenance, and modernization services at U.S. Navy facilities in Rota, Spain. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurement with no set-aside participation; as a foreign contractor, it is ineligible for domestic small business designations.

Navantia's federal footprint is concentrated almost entirely within the Rota Surface Ship Repair Contract (N6817121D6003), valued at $916.1 million through January 24, 2028, which authorizes unlimited task orders for maintenance, repair, and modernization of U.S. Navy surface combatant ships homeported or deployed to Rota. The vendor's recent work encompasses continuous maintenance availabilities (CMAV), selected restricted availabilities (SRA), emergent maintenance availabilities (EMAV), voyage repairs, work-overhaul-operations (WOO) labor, hull and mechanical repairs, systems overhauls, engineering support, and long lead time material procurement. Representative delivery orders include a $28.4 million Selected Restricted Availability for an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, a $25.2 million SRA for USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79), a $16.9 million FY25 SRA for USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), and a $21.1 million FY26 maintenance and repair delivery order for fiscal year funding alignment. Pricing is either firm fixed price or cost-no-fee across the task order portfolio.

Customer concentration is extreme: 139 of 176 awards (79% by count) and $1.33 billion of $1.37 billion in combined potential value flow to U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic), the Navy's operational command for Atlantic Fleet surface forces. The Naval Supply Systems Command holds 30 awards valued at $43.7 million, Naval Sea Systems Command 5 awards at $673 thousand, and Military Sealift Command 2 awards at $124 thousand. This concentration reflects Navantia's exclusive role as the Rota shipyard prime contractor—there are no competing primes on this single-award IDIQ. The 134 task orders issued under the parent vehicle since its January 21, 2021 award demonstrate sustained demand across fiscal years 2021 through 2026.

Activity has moderated from peak levels: the vendor received 31 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, 26 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 10 in the first three months of 2026 (annualizing to roughly 40 for full-year 2026). Nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined recompete exposure of $29 million; however, the parent IDIQ vehicle's January 24, 2028 expiration date signals a significant recompete cliff for the entire $916 million contract. Navantia's category footprint centers on NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) across 150 awards, with small secondary exposure in bare printed circuit boards, power transformers, and electrical assemblies—products that support ship system upgrades.

Navantia functions almost entirely as a prime contractor (99% of awards), with one sub-award to Lockheed Martin Corporation for Littoral Combat Ship Freedom-variant combat system in-service engineering and sustainment support labor, material, and travel. The vendor's 300-year heritage in naval vessel construction and repair positions it as Spain's primary naval shipyard serving U.S. Navy operations in the Atlantic. Place of performance for all task orders is Rota, Spain, where the company operates comprehensive shipyard facilities for Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, and other surface combatants.