Shaka Engineering Inc.

Shaka Engineering Inc., a small business based in Honolulu, Hawaii, provides maritime vessel repair, maintenance, and modernization services to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The company competes across both set-aside and unrestricted vehicles; 60% of recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations, while 40% are full-and-open competitive awards. Shaka Engineering is a for-profit organization under primary NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), with concrete capability depth in emergency repairs, habitability restoration, fuel-system service, and general dockside maintenance for research and military sealift vessels across the Pacific region.

Customer concentration is acute and stable. NOAA and the Navy dominate the footprint: the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 70 awards and $109.7 million in combined potential value (61% of the portfolio), while the Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command holds 59 awards and $69.2 million (38% of the portfolio). Together these two customers represent 94% of awards and represent all but $73 thousand of the combined potential value. The Army Pacific Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Naval Supply Systems Command account for the remaining 4 awards. NOAA's dominance reflects Shaka's deep integration into the agency's domestic research-fleet support model, while Military Sealift Command work skews toward larger vessel repair orders aboard active sealift vessels.

Shaka holds two major IDIQ vehicles anchoring most of its recurring work. The Fleetwide Dockside and Ship Maintenance IDIQ, awarded by NOAA in September 2023 and valued at $73.8 million with performance through August 2028, authorizes delivery orders for repair and maintenance across NOAA's research fleet; recent orders include a $2.87 million fiscal year 2026 delivery order for dockside repairs to NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette (November 2025) and a $176.9 million delivery order for habitability cleaning, repairs, and inspections on NOAA Ship Rainier (January 2024). The Navy's West Coast General Ship Repair MAC, a multiple-award vehicle, has generated five task orders totaling $761 thousand in recent activity. Shaka also holds positions on the General Ship Repair IDIQ in California, Washington, and Hawaii (2015–2020) and the MSC West Coast and Hawaii Ship Repair vehicle (2013–2015), both now expired or expiring but historically generating volume. Work is performed in Honolulu and at other Pacific-region ports, with a small number of task orders supporting maintenance operations at Fall River, Massachusetts and Pearl Harbor.

Activity has contracted significantly year over year. Recent annual award counts dropped from four awards in 2022 to one in 2026, though the portfolio's size reflects deep historical penetration: 144 total awards across the source window with $179.9 million in combined potential value, but only $18.2 million (10% of potential value) currently obligated. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, placing minimal near-term recompete pressure. The NOAA IDIQ running through August 2028 anchors the long-term vehicle position. Shaka operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract awards in the source data, concentrating capability and execution risk internally rather than through teaming or subcontractor partnerships. Representative work includes CTD cable replacement, emergency fuel-tank pressure testing, sewage and habitability system restoration, fire-main repairs, and engine exhaust piping repair—all executed at task-order scale in the $10 thousand to $2.9 million range for civilian research and military sealift missions.