Ruby Marine, Incorporated

Ruby Marine, Incorporated, doing business as Ruby Marine Inc., operates as a small business prime contractor providing barge freight transportation services to the federal government, with a concentrated customer base limited to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The vendor is based in Nenana, Alaska, and holds a 100% prime contracting posture across its federal award footprint with no subcontract work.

Ruby Marine's capability portfolio centers on inland water freight transportation by barge across Alaska's remote interior, with the vast majority of work classified under NAICS 481210 (Inland Water Freight Transportation) and PSC codes for vessel freight and barge services. Representative awards include a $20,000 firm fixed-price Blanket Purchase Agreement call order issued by the BLM Alaska Region on January 27, 2026, for barge freight transportation services performing through June 2028 under a Total Small Business set-aside; a $29,847.37 BPA call from the same customer awarded on April 8, 2025, also designated Total Small Business and completing by September 30, 2026; and a $6,043.17 call order from May 9, 2024, for fire-related supply barge transport between Nenana and Galena. The vendor holds two primary BPA vehicles with the BLM Alaska Region: a $250,000 single-award BPA established June 13, 2023, running through June 2028 for Nenana-to-Galena barge freight (against which Ruby Marine has issued four task orders totaling $60,000 in potential value), and a $75,000 single-award BPA from August 25, 2021, for Fort Yukon barge services running through August 2024 (two task orders, $5,000 combined potential value). Ruby Marine also holds two FEMA Region 10 BPA vehicles with a combined four task orders valued at $50,000 in potential value.

Customer concentration is extreme. The BLM Alaska Region accounts for 95% of awards (17 of 18 tracked) and $931,000 of the vendor's $986,000 combined potential value; FEMA Region 10 holds the remaining 4 awards and $50,000. The two rankings align — BLM dominates both volume and dollars. Recent activity is sparse and flat: one award in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026, compared to two awards per year in 2022 and 2023. Within the next twenty-four months, two awards with combined potential value of $50,000 face ultimate completion and recompete exposure, representing the FEMA tranche. The vendor has obligated $261,000 across its awards, representing 26% of combined potential value, indicating modest drawdown against standing BPA ceilings.

Since 2006, Ruby Marine, Incorporated has been navigating the waters of the Yukon, Koyukuk, and Innoko rivers and their tributaries, delivering essential supplies and fuel to remote communities and contractors with unwavering reliability. We pride ourselves on our flexibility and willingness to accommodate special requests. From making stops at villages, camps, and mines along the river systems to adjusting our runs to meet the demands of contractors and residents. We deliver bulk fuel of many types including ULSD 1 and 2, Heating Fuel #1, Unleaded gasoline, and 100LL Avgas. Dry cargo is handled primarily by forklifts and loaders that are carried on each tow.