Resolve Marine Group Inc.

Resolve Marine Group Inc., doing business as Resolve Marine, is a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that provides maritime emergency response, oil spill mitigation, port services, and vessel support to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating full-and-open (no set-aside designations across the prime footprint). The company operates as a Subchapter S Corporation and maintains a subsidiary, Resolve Government Services LLC, also veteran-owned. Resolve Marine competes exclusively as a prime contractor — 298 awards in the portfolio carry 100% prime designation with no subcontractor roles.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 231 of 298 awards (78% of portfolio) and $120.9 million of the $148.6 million combined potential value (81% of total dollars), leaving the remaining 15 federal agencies (including the Department of the Navy, NOAA, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Interior) to split 67 awards and $27.7 million. The Coast Guard relationship is anchored to a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement valued at $3.999 million, effective September 24, 2024, through September 23, 2027, which authorizes delivery orders and purchase orders for labor, materials, and equipment to mitigate oil spills and hazardous chemical incidents under the Federal On-Scene Coordinator Representative program. As of December 2025, the Coast Guard had issued task orders totaling approximately $8.378 million under this BOA, with major awards including $4.431 million for operations in Bremerton, Washington (awarded September 25, 2025), $1.45 million for Florida-based operations, and $390,000 for Nome, Alaska response (awarded October 13, 2025). The BOA sits on the parent vehicle HSCG8416AM00029, which carries 54 task orders and $76.8 million in combined potential value. Two older Coast Guard IDCs (HSCG8404A700087 and DTCG8499A700064) also remain active, with 38 and 9 task orders respectively. Award work is heavily concentrated in environmental remediation (130 awards by NAICS category) and oil spill response (118 awards by PSC code), followed by port and harbor operations (63 awards) and marine vessel repair (13 awards).

Recent activity shows volatility. Awards per year climbed from 6 in 2022 to a peak of 21 in 2024, then declined to 16 in 2025 and 4 year-to-date in 2026 (as of June 29, 2026). The recompete cliff carries minimal exposure — only one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Service Contract Inventory reporting (which captures federal service contracts above $150,000) shows modest scale: SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $4.5 million across FY2022–FY2024, with $4.3 million in FY2022 and $209 thousand in FY2023, falling to zero in FY2024. FTE trajectory under SCI dropped from 1.8 in FY2022 to 0.2 in FY2023 to zero in FY2024, indicating that the vendor's recent federal work is largely goods or products (vessel charters, emergency equipment, port services, repair materials) rather than labor-based services above the SCI reporting threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $678.21/hr through a median of $1,018.67/hr to a 90th percentile of $1,227.61/hr, reflecting skilled marine and emergency response labor. The vendor reports zero subcontractor hours across its prime contracts, confirming that Resolve Marine builds and executes its own delivery teams without subcontractor leverage.

Federal grant activity is minimal. The Maritime Administration awarded Resolve Marine a $447,341 Project Grant on August 19, 2025, under the Assistance to Small Shipyards program (CFDA 20.814) for the purchase of a Caterpillar 980 wheel loader to be deployed at the vendor's Unalaska, Alaska facility, with completion targeted for August 18, 2027. NOAA has issued several smaller purchase orders for vessel support services (sewage pump-off, mooring recovery) at Dutch Harbor and aboard research vessels, but these are contracts rather than grants.

Resolve Marine's portfolio is essentially a Coast Guard oil spill and maritime emergency response monopoly, with secondary breadth in port logistics and vessel repair work across Alaska, Washington, Florida, and Puerto Rico. The vendor's federal footprint reflects deep operational expertise in rapid-response maritime environmental protection and salvage, with over 30 years of experience noted across award narratives, but limited diversification beyond DHS-USCG and minimal federal service-contract scale under SCI reporting thresholds.

Resolve Marine Group began in 1980 as a one-tug operation after Joe Farrell, Jr. purchased his first tug, THE RESOLVE. Throughout the next 10 years, the company oversaw salvage jobs in the Caribbean, working on various small freighters and island vessels. Following the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill in Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard established regulations for OPA-90 and, at the time, Farrell, realized he needed to offer services that met those regulations if he wanted to remain in business.