S.C.A. - Shipping Consultants Associated LTD.

S.C.A. - Shipping Consultants Associated LTD., a United Kingdom-based maritime services provider headquartered in Chatham, operates as a prime contractor delivering port husbanding, maritime logistics, and expeditionary support services to U.S. federal agencies on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. The vendor competes exclusively for prime work across multiple indefinite delivery vehicles without leveraging small-business set-asides.

The core capability portfolio centers on comprehensive husbanding services—port logistics, material handling, provisioning, life support coordination, communications support, and vessel-transit facilitation—executed at international ports worldwide. Representative work spans husbanding services for USS Gerald R. Ford during Suez Canal transit (Naval Air Systems Command, $2.995 million delivered order, March 2026), lodging and vehicle support for PATFORSWA operations in the Philippines (Coast Guard, $763.2 million ceiling under WEXMAC TITUS, June 2026), and Suez Canal husbanding for multiple naval vessels in the $300 thousand to $700 thousand range (Military Sealift Command, US Fleet Forces Command, March–April 2026). The vendor also holds a single-award stevedoring and terminal services contract with Surface Deployment and Distribution Command for Port of Koper, Slovenia operations (30.6 million ceiling through April 2031). A secondary capability stream includes expeditionary life-support services—billeting, catering, transportation, and evacuation support—issued under WEXMAC TITUS and related multi-agency expeditionary vehicles.

Customer concentration is heavily Navy-centric. The top five customers by award count account for 90 percent of recent awards, led by the Navy's Atlantic Fleet (US Fleet Forces Command, 1,982 awards, $1.04 billion potential value) and Military Sealift Command (1,602 awards, $202.5 million). US Pacific Fleet Forces ranks third (754 awards, $2.53 billion). By potential-value dollars, Naval Supply Systems Command dominates with 37 awards carrying $2.55 billion combined ceiling, followed by Pacific Fleet Forces ($2.53 billion across 754 awards) and Atlantic Fleet Forces ($1.04 billion across 1,982 awards). The Coast Guard (411 awards, $15.5 million) and Defense Logistics Agency Energy (177 awards, $276.9 million) round out the active customer set. This portfolio is service-order-intensive rather than dollar-intensive: award count and dollar value diverge sharply, indicating a high volume of small discrete task orders under large master contracts.

The vendor's vehicle position reflects deep entrenchment in maritime IDIQs. The Global Husbanding Support Services IDIQ dominates the footprint with 3,727 task orders carrying $485.5 million combined potential value and serving Military Sealift Command, US Fleet Forces Command, US Pacific Fleet Forces, and the Coast Guard. Secondary vehicles include the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract TITUS (WEXMAC TITUS)—a $2.3 billion multi-agency expeditionary services IDIQ running through December 31, 2029—with 109 task orders totaling $30.5 million, and legacy NAVSUP EUCOM Husbanding Services 2016–2021 vehicle (295 task orders, $23.5 million). The stevedoring IDIQ with Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (30.6 million ceiling through April 2031) represents a structural contract for port-terminal work in support of DoD cargo operations.

Activity trajectory is contracting. Award volume peaked in 2022 at 1,048 awards and has declined year over year: 955 in 2023, 914 in 2024, 851 in 2025, and 249 through mid-2026. Combined potential value across the full portfolio stands at $7.65 billion against $794.1 million obligated (10 percent obligation rate typical for delivery-order vehicles). Nineteen awards with combined potential value of $9.4 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the overall portfolio.

SCI-reported data is sparse and non-representative: only three service contracts above the $150,000 threshold appear in federal Service Contract Inventory records across FY2022–FY2023. Reported invoicing totaled $1.9 million ($633 thousand in FY2022, $1.2 million in FY2023) with roughly 2.4 FTEs across those two years. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable work ranged from $283 per hour at the 10th percentile to a median of $625 per hour. SCI covers only service contracts above the reporting threshold and excludes goods, products, and port-call micro-transactions; the vast majority of S.C.A.'s federal revenue derives from delivery orders for port logistics and supplies not captured in SCI, making SCI figures an incomplete slice of the vendor's federal footprint.

S.C.A. operates exclusively as a prime contractor—100 percent of the 5,472 awards in the source are prime awards with zero sub-award activity—and does not subcontract. The vendor neither builds nor leverages subcontractor teams; it performs work directly. Category concentration reflects the core business: 4,746 awards fall under Port and Harbor Operations (primary NAICS), with the remainder spanning process-logistics consulting (304 awards), petroleum refining energy services (177 awards), food service (51 awards), and vehicle rental (24 awards). Top PSC codes reinforce husbanding focus: Ship Husbanding Services—Management/Integration Service (2,843 awards), Logistics Support (923 awards), Husbanding Services—Transportation (395 awards), and Husbanding Services—Removal/Other Port Services (567 awards combined).

Operationally, S.C.A. functions as a reactive logistics provider responding to naval vessel port-call schedules, exercise support requirements, and expeditionary billeting needs across international theater operations. Work is performed worldwide—Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Atlantic, and Western Hemisphere ports—with administrative oversight rooted in UK corporate structure but operational presence distributed across contract performance locations. Federal contracting registration dates to 2004. The vendor's business model depends on maintaining seats on large master IDIQs and sustaining task-order competitiveness in full-and-open competition without set-aside protection.