Ocean Gold Seafoods, Inc.

Ocean Gold Seafoods, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Westport, Washington, supplies Pacific seafood products and specialized marine research services to two federal agencies — the Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — as a prime contractor exclusively (100% of recent awards). The company operates as a manufacturer of goods and specialized equipment provider, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designation across most awards, though one early NOAA purchase order (September 2023, $250,000) carried a total small business set-aside.

Ocean Gold's federal footprint splits sharply by dollar value and agency focus. USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service dominates by potential value — five awards worth $23.5 million combined for the supply of Pacific rockfish fillets, Pacific whiting fillets, and Pacific salad shrimp to domestic food assistance programs. These commodity contracts carry firm-fixed-price commercial-item awards ranging from $740,142 (September 2021) to $8.87 million (July 2023). NOAA, by contrast, has placed ten awards worth $7.3 million combined, split between specialized marine research services and fishing equipment. NOAA work includes vessel charter services for the Cooperative Nearshore California Current Ecosystem Survey (a multi-year engagement with a ceiling of $5.05 million, exercised through Option Period III with ultimate completion in May 2028), as well as sole-source and small-business-set-aside purchases for multi-function trawl system development, maintenance, and equipment integration — transducers, echosounders, and wide-band transceivers for fisheries monitoring. A current NOAA maintenance contract awarded April 1, 2026, valued at $513,084, extends through March 2031 and encompasses routine inspection, repair, modification, testing, and training for the multi-function trawl net system, which Ocean Gold originally developed.

Activity has declined over the observation window: three awards in 2022 and 2023 each, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, one award (the Cooperative Nearshore California Current Ecosystem Survey option, $5 million in potential value) approaches ultimate completion and therefore faces recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory records are sparse — only two prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold captured across FY2023–FY2024, with $496 thousand in invoiced revenue in FY2023 and zero invoiced in FY2024, reflecting less than one full-time equivalent FTE delivered. This suggests the majority of Ocean Gold's federal revenue flows through goods procurement (seafood commodities and equipment purchases) rather than service contracts, and that SCI captures only a fragment of the company's federal footprint. The hourly rate posture across SCI prime records runs uniformly at $938.64 per hour — a specialized labor rate consistent with technical marine research personnel. Ocean Gold operates entirely as a prime contractor with no named subcontractor engagement visible in recent awards.