Phoenix Marine LLC

Phoenix Marine LLC, a small business based in Lake Wales, Florida, provides dockside ship repair, maintenance, and overhaul services to the U.S. Coast Guard as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with 100% of its federal award footprint concentrated in Coast Guard vessel maintenance work since 2017.

Phoenix Marine is a for-profit limited liability company competing exclusively under total small business set-asides across the Coast Guard's fleet maintenance and repair programs. The vendor operates across NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and PSC J999 (Non-Nuclear Ship Repair), with the vast majority of work falling under PSC codes for East Coast (52 awards) and West Coast (18 awards) non-nuclear ship repair. The company delivers capabilities in main diesel engine overhauls (including MTU 20V4000 series work at QL3 and QL3+ maintenance levels), hull preservation and coating applications, sewage and greywater system cleaning and inspection, electrical system evaluations, watertight closure assessments, marine transmission repair (including ZF Series reduction gears), thermographic inspections, precision laser alignment for marine engines, and specialized diver-certified underwater hull plating cleaning. Work spans Coast Guard cutters and patrol boats across multiple homeports including Miami Beach, Key West, San Pedro, San Diego, and subordinate locations nationwide.

Representative recent awards include a $2.84 million firm fixed-price dockside repair contract with the Coast Guard for USCGC Margaret Norvell (December 2025, ultimate completion April 2026) covering diesel engine overhauls and hull preservation, a $1.48 million contract for USCGC Benjamin Bottoms (August 2026) including renewal of two main diesel engines and sea trial support, and a $1.72 million contract for USCGC Benjamin Bottoms (March 2026) for material deficiency elimination work including fuel service tank cleaning and 8000-hour maintenance. A $2.07 million contract awarded May 2023 with an ultimate completion date of December 2025 covers dockside repair of USCGC Charles David Jr. and requires demonstrated experience with MTU 20V4000 engines, coatings application, and thermographic inspection capabilities.

The vendor serves a single federal customer — the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard — across 78 prime awards totaling $35.2 million in combined potential value, with $34.5 million obligated (98% capture rate). Activity has been consistent: eight awards in 2022, eight in 2023, nine in 2024, declining to six in 2025, with three awards in 2026 year-to-date. Only one award ($1.1 million) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a low recompete cliff. Phoenix Marine does not operate as a subcontractor; 100% of its awards are prime contracts.

SCI-reported invoicing across service contracts above the $150,000 threshold shows Phoenix Marine delivered $11.7 million across FY2022–FY2024: $506 thousand in FY2022 across 1.0 FTE, $3.2 million in FY2023 across 2.3 FTEs, and $8 million in FY2024 across 5.3 FTEs, with zero FY2025 SCI activity reported. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from $238/hr at the tenth percentile to a median of $405/hr, with senior labor and specialist roles pricing through $769/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Phoenix Marine engaged subcontractors for an average 19% of contractor hours, naming eight distinct subcontractors for specialized work such as MTU engine certification, welding, and diver services — a typical posture for maritime vessel repair where certain skills are outsourced while the company retains core dockside repair and maintenance delivery in-house.