Portland Valve LLC

Portland Valve LLC, a Warren, Massachusetts-based manufacturer, delivers industrial and fluid control valves, valve repair services, seals, gaskets, fasteners, and mechanical power transmission components to the Department of the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) in full-and-open competition—no set-aside designations. The company is a child entity of Colfax Corporation and competes consistently across purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts without leveraging SBA designations.

Portland Valve's federal customer base concentrates heavily with Navy logistics. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command accounts for 504 awards worth $31.1 million combined potential value—more than two-thirds of the active portfolio—while the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime places 262 awards valued at $3.3 million combined potential value. Together, these two customers represent 80% of awards by count and 77% of combined potential value. The Navy dominates both rankings; the DLA split between Land and Maritime and smaller buy activities (Aviation, Document Services, Troop Support Hardware) shows broader but lower-value engagement across DLA components.

Recent representative prime work spans regulating valves, butterfly valves, flow control valves, solenoid valves, pressure equalization valves, and repair services. Named examples include a $1.68 million Naval Supply Systems Command definitive contract (February 2025) for sixteen butterfly valve units (NSN 7H-4810-015189043) with sole-source justification; a $1.03 million NAVSUP definitive contract (January 2025) for eleven flow control valve units (NSN 4810 015213728); a $655.7 thousand NAVSUP pressure equalization valve repair purchase order (September 2024) with 180-day turnaround; a $556.95 thousand NAVSUP regulating flow control valve repair contract (August 2023) specifying 210-day turnaround and Government Source Inspection; and a $525 thousand NAVSUP regulating valve purchase order (March 2026) completing August 2028. Smaller purchase orders populate the portfolio—$8.6 thousand for electrical connectors, $18.5 thousand for regulating valves, $28.25 thousand for regulating flow valves—reflecting DLA's component replenishment work. The company holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Land and Maritime valued at up to $250 thousand over five years for flexible drive shaft supply.

Activity shows decline from peak volume. Awards per year: 36 (2022), 96 (2023), 58 (2024), 32 (2025), 13 (2026 year-to-date). Thirty awards (combined potential value $4.4 million) reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Combined dollars obligated ($117.8 million) significantly exceed combined potential value ($45.3 million), indicating many older contracts from the 1980s–2010s period remain in the source dataset with historical obligation records; recent award velocity has softened.

Portland Valve serves as a subcontractor to major defense shipbuilders and system integrators. Recent sub-award work flows through Electric Boat Corporation (submarine construction programs including SSN 804, SSN 814, SSBN 826, and Columbia-class missile tube production; changes and streamlined engineering work) and Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (DDG 51-class destroyer construction, CVN-class carrier advance planning, DDG 1000 By-Product Material Program execution). Fairwinds Technologies LLC placed a butterfly valve PO sub-award in November 2025. These relationships anchor Portland Valve within the naval industrial base, supplying valve components, actuators, and seals for new construction and modernization.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC concentration reinforces narrow but deep focus: Industrial Valve Manufacturing (328 awards), Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (161 awards), Fluid Power Valve and Hose Fitting Manufacturing (90 awards), and Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing (59 awards) dominate category splits. PSC codes align: Valves, Nonpowered (891 awards) and Valves, Powered (233 awards) account for the bulk of procurement lines, with Packing and Gasket Materials (59 awards), Miscellaneous Power Transmission Equipment (31 awards), and Screws (24 awards) rounding out the tail. The portfolio spans 1,516 total awards since 1980, reflecting a three-decade federal supplier relationship anchored in Navy and DLA component logistics.