P & R Water Taxi LLC

P & R Water Taxi LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, provides tugboat services and marine vessel operations to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside purchasing authority. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards), competing in Total Small Business set-asides on purchase orders and definitive contracts, with no involvement in subcontracting or parent IDIQs.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of the Navy. The Military Sealift Command (MSC) anchors the footprint, accounting for 7 awards with $78.5 million in combined potential value—95% of all dollars. The U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces has issued 3 small-value purchase orders ($358 thousand combined) for tugboat support during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises in 2022, 2024, and 2026. The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued 4 awards ($300 thousand combined) for buoy recovery services. A single Naval Sea Systems Command award carries $3.2 million. The two customer rankings converge entirely on MSC dominance; the remaining three customers represent operational taskings at lower dollar volumes.

P & R Water Taxi's concrete service footprint centers on tug operations and harbor support at Pearl Harbor. The largest award is a $32.45 million firm fixed-price definitive contract from MSC issued March 23, 2022, running through February 2027, for Pearl Harbor tugs time charter—four U.S.-flagged vessels providing towing, mooring, berthing, docking, and emergency on-call services at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam under NAICS 483211 (Deep Sea Freight Transportation). This contract alone represents 97% of potential value across the entire vendor portfolio and faces ultimate completion on February 28, 2027, placing $32.5 million in recompete exposure within the next twenty-four months. Supporting MSC work includes smaller tug and buoy recovery contracts awarded between 2022 and 2023. Pacific Fleet Forces awards (RIMPAC 2022, 2024, 2026) call for U.S.-flagged tugboats with minimum 4,000 shaft horsepower and 100,000 pounds bollard pull, performing towage and escort services with 24-hour readiness and 2-hour emergency response, with crew requiring U.S. citizenship and valid Coast Guard certifications. NOAA delivery orders for buoy recovery services operated under a basic ordering agreement through August 2023, one of which was canceled due to no buoy recovery required.

Award activity is episodic rather than growing—three awards in 2020, three in 2022, then one each in 2023, 2024, and 2026—reflecting the lumpy nature of MSC recompete cycles and RIMPAC exercise scheduling. The vendor places task orders under one named parent vehicle: Basic Ordering Agreement 1305M220GNWWG0052 (NOAA buoy recovery), which carried 2 delivery orders totaling $300 thousand. Obligated dollars track very tightly to potential value ($79.7 million against $82.3 million potential, 97% realization), indicating executed performance against committed scope.