Santa Cruz Port District

Santa Cruz Port District, doing business as Santa Cruz Harbor, is a U.S. local government port authority based in Santa Cruz, California, that leases harbor slips and waterfront facilities to the federal government as a prime contractor and sub-recipient on emergency management grants. The vendor operates on full-and-open federal contracts with no set-aside designations and holds no government-wide vehicles or blanket purchase agreements.

Santa Cruz Harbor's federal footprint is narrow and specialized. The vendor rents ship slips and watercraft storage facilities — classified under NAICS 4493 (Marinas) and PSC Lease Or Rental Of Equipment: Ships, Small Craft, Pontoons, And Floating Docks. Prime federal contract work centers on two recurring purchase orders: a five-year Air National Guard slip rental at Santa Cruz Harbor (ceiling $68,640.72, awarded July 1, 2026, ultimate completion June 30, 2031) and a continuation purchase order for slip rental and government-owned watercraft storage at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California (ceiling $24,513.36, July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026). Both awards are firm-fixed-price with no set-asides and represent routine operational support rather than procurement of goods or services. Historical Air National Guard slip-rental contracts date back to 2020, with prior awards of $58,854.24 (July 2021) and $10,839.36 (June 2020).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard, which accounts for 7 awards (77% of the award count, $232 thousand combined potential value). The Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards program represents the remaining customer tier, with 3 grant sub-awards. Santa Cruz Harbor acts as a sub-recipient on FEMA grants managed through the California Office of Emergency Services, receiving sub-awards for critical infrastructure and key resources protection (June 16, 2025, two awards), port district management costs ($744,849, March 13, 2024), south harbor debris removal ($726,723, February 27, 2024), and north harbor piling damages repair ($709,960, February 10, 2024). These sub-awards reflect post-disaster infrastructure recovery and ongoing harbor maintenance funded through emergency management channels.

Activity is sparse and episodic. The vendor placed one award in 2020, one in 2021, four in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — a pattern of occasional Air National Guard renewals and discrete FEMA sub-awards following emergencies rather than sustained program volume. Combined potential value across all thirteen awards (prime and sub) totals $332 thousand, though combined dollars obligated reach $877 thousand (264% of potential value), indicating that invoiced amounts exceed original ceiling estimates on individual awards. The vendor holds no parent vehicles, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs and generates no subcontract footprint to other federal contractors. Federal engagement is limited to operational lease revenue from military facility slips and pass-through grant sub-recipient capacity for disaster response work.