Northeast Dockside Services, LLC

Northeast Dockside Services, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, designs and installs temporary scaffolding and fireproof shrink wrap containment enclosures for maritime vessel maintenance as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The company operates as a limited liability partnership and has logged eight federal prime awards totaling $1.2 million since July 2024, all fully obligated.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrowly focused on maritime maintenance. The U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 7 of 8 awards ($1.1 million, 92% of combined potential value), with a single Army Communications-Electronics Command scaffolding award for the USS Tripoli and USS Essex at Naval Base San Diego rounding out the customer base. All work is performed at either Curtis Bay in Baltimore, Maryland (Coast Guard yard) or Naval Base San Diego, with performance driven by vessel dry-dock and maintenance cycles rather than standing contracts or indefinite delivery vehicles. The company holds no seats on GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs; all eight awards are discrete purchase orders for scaffolding and containment services.

Recent work exemplifies the vendor's narrow, specialized capability set. A $232,714 Coast Guard purchase order (June 2025, subsequently modified) covered scaffolding construction, shrink wrap installation, and disassembly for an unnamed vessel at Curtis Bay. A $238,250 order from October 2024 supported maintenance on a 154-foot Fast Response Cutter. A $219,500 order (March 2025) provided containment services for the USCGC Harold Miller. The July 2026 award (most recent, $122,500) calls for erection and removal of a fireproof shrink wrap containment structure around a 270-foot Campbell Mast, including Professional Engineer-stamped design, OSHA Shipyard compliance (29 CFR 1915), and structural loads to withstand 60 mph wind gusts and six inches of wet snow. All personnel require security clearance with criminal background authorization for yard access. The Army award ($113,550, July 2024) covered scaffolding support for Rolling Airframe Missile and NATO Seasparrow Missile System launcher maintenance on naval amphibious assault ships.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2024 to five in 2025 and one in 2026 year-to-date, though the recent-award pace does not establish a trajectory — the vendor's footprint is driven by unscheduled vessel maintenance windows, not standing orders. Only one award ($122,500 for the Campbell Mast, Coast Guard) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in the near term but also signaling that Northeast Dockside operates on a project-by-project basis with no recurring contract vehicles. The vendor does not subcontract and operates exclusively as a prime, positioning it as a specialized maritime maintenance service provider rather than a systems integrator or prime-led team lead.