Quality Refrigeration Company, Inc.

Quality Refrigeration Company, Inc. San Diego Division, doing business as Quality Refrigeration, supplies specialized commercial and marine refrigeration components, air conditioning equipment, and HVAC services to the Department of Defense and federal maritime agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The San Diego Division operates as a child entity of Quality Refrigeration Company, Inc., headquartered in Wilmington, California; both are for-profit small businesses competing across maritime and military logistics procurement. Quality Refrigeration's award portfolio spans 331 total federal actions (prime and sub) valued at $15.2 million with full obligation, awarded over the past five years with notable growth in 2025 (25 awards) relative to prior-year volume.

Customer concentration anchors heavily to naval and coast guard ship operations. Military Sealift Command dominates both volume and dollars (112 awards, $6.9 million combined potential value), followed by the U.S. Coast Guard (53 awards, $5.3 million) and the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (44 awards, $1 million). Naval Sea Systems Command, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, and a secondary tier of Air Force, Army, and civilian agencies round out the active customer set. The top five customers account for 83% of awards and 93% of combined potential value — indicating significant operational concentration tied to military vessel maintenance and shore-facility refrigeration needs.

Quality Refrigeration's capability portfolio centers on refrigeration compressor assemblies, condenser units, chiller components, scroll compressors, and air-cooled chiller boards — typically Carrier, York International, and Bitzer OEM brand equipment or authorized equivalent. Representative prime awards include a $815,235 firm fixed-price purchase order from Military Sealift Command (September 2024) for air conditioning condenser parts (waterboxes, waterbox covers, domed heads) for the USNS Comfort hospital ship; a $325,848 order (May 2025) for HVAC compressors and components for the USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4); an $80,695 emergency repair task (July 2025) for Variable Frequency Drive troubleshooting and programming of a 500-ton Carrier seawater-cooled chiller aboard the USNS Comfort, executed at international ports in Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago; and a $110,220 HVAC services order from Military Sealift Command (August 2023) for the T. Allen Spearhead. Work is performed in San Diego, California, with delivery to naval installations, vessels, and coast guard logistics centers nationwide and at overseas homeports. Most purchase orders carry completion dates extending through 2025 and into early 2026, with only one award ($62 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

The source names five parent contract vehicles. Quality Refrigeration holds task order positions under Coast Guard IDC HSCG4015D60362 (16 task orders, $1.3 million combined potential value) and HSCG4013D40013 (10 task orders, $792 thousand), as well as DLA Land and Maritime single-award IDC with a $250,000 ceiling (established July 2021, expiring March 2022, with five firm fixed-price delivery orders issued through May 2022). The remaining named parent vehicles carry negligible or unspecified dollar ceilings and represent specialized or legacy procurement arrangements. Most prime work flows through unrestricted commercial item procurements and simplified acquisition purchase orders rather than managed IDV vehicles.

Quality Refrigeration subcontracts to two primary naval shipyard integrators — National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) and Vigor Marine LLC / HII Fleet Support Group LLC — performing HVAC, refrigeration repair, and component installation work on new-construction and depot-modernization availabilities for Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, Lewis and Clark-class cargo ships, and ESB-class expeditionary sea base vessels. Sub-awards span new construction (detail design and construction for T-AO 205), docking and restricted availability repairs (USS America, USS Harpers Ferry, USS Chung-Hoon, USS James E. Williams), and modernization planning tasks, with the earliest named sub dating to December 2023 and the most recent to January 2026. These subs represent specialty HVAC/refrigeration support embedded in large shipyard prime contracts rather than standalone component sales.

Set-aside posture is predominantly total small business — 140 of 331 awards carry explicit total small business designation, with an additional volume competing full-and-open. The vendor competes across multiple NAICS codes: primary framing under 333415 (Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment Manufacturing; 140 awards), with secondary competition under 324320 (Ship Building and Repairing; 32 awards) and 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors; 25 awards). PSC codes align: 57 awards under Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Components, 45 under Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment, 28 under Air Conditioning Equipment. Award sizes cluster in the range of $9 thousand to $325 thousand per order, with the median and modal order in the $25,000 to $80,000 band typical of component procurements and emergency repair tasks.