Nor'eastern Trawl Systems, Inc.

Nor'eastern Trawl Systems, Inc., doing business as Noreastern Trawl Systems Inc., manufactures and repairs specialized commercial trawl fishing systems and marine research equipment as a prime contractor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with a foreign-owned corporate structure (subsidiary of Nichimo Co., Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer) and self-certified small disadvantaged business status. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurement, not set-asides, across a narrow but deep customer base anchored entirely to NOAA fisheries science and research operations.

Nor'eastern Trawl Systems operates from Bainbridge Island, Washington, with work performed primarily in the Seattle area and maintains a sustained contracting relationship with NOAA dating to 2002. The company's capability portfolio centers on trawl net manufacturing, repair, maintenance, and certification; trawl door and sensor bracket fabrication and installation; and specialized net rigging and bridle production. Representative recent work includes a $113,535 purchase order from NOAA (awarded May 2026) for Bering Sea survey trawl modernization supplies supporting the Auke Bay Laboratory; an $80,200 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order (September 2025) for trawl nets serving the Alaska Fisheries Science Center; and a $74,460 repair and certification contract (September 2025) with NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center for net mending, certification, and emergency transport of damaged trawl gear. Nor'eastern also provided $50,770 in delivery-order repairs and servicing under NOAA's existing indefinite-delivery vehicle (April 2024) and holds historical five-figure orders for Aberdeen bottom trawl gear repairs, V-door and sensor bracket installations, and ABL (Acoustic and Biological Logger) net repairs.

Customer concentration is extreme: NOAA accounts for 95 of 138 total awards (69% of awards) and $5.8 million of $7 million combined potential value (83% of dollars). The remaining 15% of awards and 13% of potential value scatter across the Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey), the Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Coast Guard), and the Department of the Army, all in sub-$100,000 individual awards. Nor'eastern sits on two primary NOAA indefinite-delivery vehicles: IDC 1305M319DNFFP0010 (22 task orders, $551,000 combined potential value) and IDC DOCAB133F13CQ0036 (7 task orders, $685,000 combined potential value). The vendor competes without set-aside designation on the vast majority of NOAA work, indicating technical specialization and pricing competitiveness in commercial fishing equipment rather than reliance on small business preferences — though the September 2025 $80,200 award represents the vendor's first documented Total Small Business set-aside designation.

Award activity has declined materially: five awards in 2022, seven in 2023, six in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 through early May. This downward trajectory reflects NOAA's underlying research budget and fleet modernization cycles rather than vendor performance loss. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $188,000), reducing near-term recompete exposure but signaling limited near-horizon pipeline visibility. NAICS codes reflect manufacturing and maintenance specialization: 72 awards under All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills (trawl netting), 10 under Rope and Cordage Mills, and 8 under All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing. PSC codes track similarly — Commercial Fishing Equipment dominates with 34 awards, followed by Ship and Marine Equipment Maintenance and Repair (29 awards) and Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment (17 awards).