Shaka Engineering Inc.

Shaka Engineering Inc., a small business based in Honolulu, Hawaii, operates as a prime contractor delivering maritime vessel repair, maintenance, and modernization services to federal agencies under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The company holds a $73.8 million Fleetwide Dockside and Ship Maintenance IDIQ with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), running through August 2028, and previously held comparable ship-repair IDIQs with the Navy's Military Sealift Command.

Shaka Engineering's customer base is heavily concentrated in maritime federal agencies. NOAA accounts for 74 awards and $112.1 million in combined potential value, while the Navy's Military Sealift Command represents 59 awards and $69.2 million combined potential value — together representing 94% of the vendor's recent award count. The Army Pacific Command and Naval Sea Systems Command round out the customer set. Within NOAA's IDIQ framework, Shaka has executed delivery orders for dockside repairs to the NOAA Ships Oscar Elton Sette, Rainier, and Okeanos Explorer, ranging from $1.2 million to $2.9 million per order for fiscal-year maintenance cycles. Under Military Sealift Command's West Coast General Ship Repair MAC, the vendor has completed general ship repair delivery orders for vessels including the USNS Henry J. Kaiser ($140.7 thousand) and T. Muhlethaler ($273.6 thousand). Spot repairs and specialized work also flow through purchase orders—recent examples include $50.1 thousand for bridge decking installation, $28.2 thousand for sewage tank cleaning, and $26 thousand for engine exhaust piping repair on NOAA research vessels.

Award volume has remained modest and flat in recent years — four awards in 2022, six in 2023, two in 2024, four in 2025, and five in 2026 — though the combined potential value of $182.4 million reflects concentration in high-value IDIQs. Only four awards (combined potential value $2.4 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's capability portfolio clusters around NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), which accounts for 137 of 148 awards, with ancillary work in machinery repair and HVAC contracting. Shaka competes exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards); the Service Contract Inventory dataset shows minimal SCI-reportable service-contract activity, capturing only 0.2 FTEs across one sub-recipient record in FY2025, indicating that the vendor's federal footprint is dominated by vessel repair purchase orders and IDIQ delivery orders that fall below or outside SCI reporting thresholds. Place of performance is concentrated in Honolulu, Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, supporting NOAA's and the Navy's Pacific-based research and sealift fleets.