Safe Boats International LLC

Safe Boats International LLC, doing business as Safe, manufactures specialized maritime patrol, response, and interceptor vessels ranging from 12 to 65 feet in length, operating as a prime contractor on nearly all federal work across the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of the Navy, Customs and Border Protection, Department of State, and other federal agencies. A for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Bremerton, Washington, Safe Boats competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements with minimal set-aside activity; recent awards carry total small business designations on roughly one-third of call orders, predominantly on Foreign Military Sales vehicles through the Coast Guard.

Safe Boats' federal footprint is heavily concentrated within the Department of Homeland Security's Coast Guard, which anchors 786 awards valued at $1.2 billion in combined potential value—60 percent of the vendor's award count and 56 percent of total potential value. The Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command places the second-largest dollar exposure, with 39 awards valued at $428.4 million, followed by Customs and Border Protection (13 awards, $135.8 million), the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (13 awards, $14.1 million), and the FBI Headquarters Division (7 awards, $9.5 million). These top five customers account for 84 percent of combined potential value across 878 awards. The Coast Guard dominates both volume and dollars; Navy Naval Sea Systems Command represents significant concentrated exposure on ship-mounted platform procurements and spare parts.

Safe Boats' vehicle position spans the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (254 task orders, $203 million combined potential value), three single-award Coast Guard Indefinite Delivery Contracts (143, 91, and 57 task orders with combined potential value of $276.8 million), and multiple single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements held with the Coast Guard for specialized boat classes including 38-foot full cabin response boats ($40 million ceiling through September 2026), 25-foot heavy combat riverine boats ($20 million ceiling through September 2026), and 12-meter Foreign Military Sales patrol boats ($36.5 million ceiling through September 2027). Safe Boats also holds single-award BPAs with the FBI for Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats ($2.1 million through September 2029) and a $22.3 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Customs and Border Protection for 38-foot all-weather interceptor vessels. The vendor competes across these vehicles as the sole provider on most vehicles rather than competing in multi-award pools.

Recent activity has remained flat to modest—24 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 24 in 2024, 27 in 2025, and 19 through September 2026—with 41 awards (combined potential value $373.7 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated in Coast Guard Foreign Military Sales cases and Navy spare parts contracts. Work is performed at Safe Boats' primary manufacturing facility in Bremerton, Washington, with secondary repair facilities in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in-country technical support and training footprints established across overseas locations including Tunisia, Lebanon, Ghana, Colombia, and additional allied nations in the Caribbean, Central America, West Africa, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific regions supporting Foreign Military Sales arrangements.

Safe Boats' capability portfolio centers on design, manufacture, delivery, spare parts provisioning, operator training, and in-country logistical support for specialized maritime patrol craft. Recent representative work includes a $19.8 million Naval Sea Systems Command definitive contract for three 65-foot full cabin boats with spares and training for Jordan (awarded January 2025), a $18.1 million Coast Guard definitive contract for 45-foot patrol boats for Lebanon under Foreign Military Sales (awarded September 2025), a $11.9 million Customs and Border Protection delivery order for 38-foot all-weather interceptor vessels and trailers (awarded September 2022), a $10.7 million Coast Guard BPA call for 25-foot heavy combat riverine boats for Colombia (awarded June 2026), and a $9.1 million Coast Guard definitive contract for four 45-foot Archangel class response boats for Lebanon (awarded July 2023). The vendor also received a $716,983 grant from the Maritime Administration's Assistance to Small Shipyards program (CFDA 20.814) awarded July 2022 to support acquisition of an 80-ton self-propelled vessel transporter, aluminum welding equipment, and mobile lifting equipment through July 2024, modernizing domestic shipyard infrastructure and capacity.

Safe Boats operates as a prime contractor on 1,488 of 1,490 recent federal awards (100 percent), with only two recorded sub-awards as a named subcontractor to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc., for center console support vessels in August 2024. The vendor builds its own delivery and manufacturing capacity rather than relying on subcontractors; Service Contract Inventory data reflects minimal service-contract reporting (three records across FY2022–FY2024 with zero invoiced revenue at the SCI-reportable level), consistent with Safe Boats' business model as a goods manufacturer rather than a services provider. The vendor's federal portfolio spans 62 distinct customer agencies but concentrates operationally within maritime security, law enforcement, and international military cooperation missions anchored by the Coast Guard's Foreign Military Sales program and Navy platform procurement.