Northcliffe Ocean Shipping & Trading Company Inc.

Northcliffe Ocean Shipping & Trading Company Inc., a Subchapter S corporation based in St Simons Island, Georgia, provides ocean and intermodal cargo transportation services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor under two major federal IDIQ vehicles, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its federal portfolio.

Northcliffe's capability footprint centers on consolidated international and domestic cargo transportation for military logistics operations. The company holds two primary contract vehicles: the Universal Services Contract 10 (USC-10), a $4 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Air Force on September 1, 2024, running through August 31, 2027 with four potential one-year option periods; and the Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) Contingency Services contract, awarded October 1, 2024, extending through September 30, 2029 with a five-year option period, under which Northcliffe commits a percentage of its U.S. flag vessel capacity to support Department of Defense contingency and peacetime operations worldwide. Work under both vehicles involves fixed-price delivery orders with economic price adjustment provisions executed by decentralized ordering officers. Recent delivery orders under USC-10 range from approximately $22,000 to $945,600 and cover consolidated shipments to St Simons Island, Wayne, Pennsylvania, The Bahamas, Honduras, and Guyana. The company also operates under the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 IDIQ, a predecessor vehicle, where it has executed eighteen task orders valued at $10.8 million combined.

Customer concentration sits entirely within the Department of Defense and subordinate commands. The top four funding agencies account for 100% of recent awards: the Department of the Air Force holds ten awards valued at $4 billion (nearly all attributable to the USC-10 IDIQ ceiling); the Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command holds ten awards valued at $31.5 million; the Air Force Air Mobility Command holds fourteen awards valued at $11.2 million; and the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command holds seven awards valued at $4.9 million. Activity has accelerated year over year — one award in 2022 to nine in 2024 — with eight awards in 2025 and one award in 2026. Combined potential value across all forty-one prime awards totals $4.05 billion, though obligated dollars stand at $38.4 million (1% of potential value), reflecting the capped-IDIQ structure of USC-10 and VISA Contingency Services contracts. The primary ordering office is Air Mobility Command, which coordinates consolidated shipments across the Defense Transportation System.

Northcliffe has no sub-award footprint in the source data; all forty-one awards are prime contracts. The company's NAICS concentration sits in Deep Sea Freight Transportation (40 awards) and Navigational Services to Shipping (1 award), with PSC concentration split between Transportation/Travel/Relocation — Vessel Freight (30 awards) and Marine Charter (11 awards). Place of performance encompasses St Simons Island, Georgia (headquarters and administrative center), Wayne, Pennsylvania, The Bahamas, Honduras, and Guyana, reflecting Northcliffe's operational reach across the Caribbean and domestic U.S. port infrastructure supporting military sealift missions.