Shawmut Equipment Company, Incorporated

Shawmut Equipment Company, Incorporated, a for-profit equipment repair and maintenance specialist based in Manchester, Connecticut, provides crane overhauls, equipment repairs, and specialized machinery maintenance services to the federal government as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and as a materials and equipment supplier on naval shipyard construction projects. The vendor operates full-and-open (no set-aside designations appear in the award record) and competes predominantly on firm fixed-price purchase orders from Navy facilities, the Coast Guard, and the Maritime Administration.

Shawmut's customer footprint centers on Navy engineering commands. The top five federal agencies account for 67% of recent awards by count and 60% by combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command leads on both volume (10 awards, $195 thousand combined potential value) and dollars, followed by the Department of Homeland Security's US Coast Guard (7 awards, $141 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards, $66 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (3 awards, $20 thousand), and the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (1 award, $17 thousand). Recent prime work includes a $106 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Facilities Engineering Command for a crane main boom overhaul at Poquonock Bridge, Connecticut (awarded September 2023), a $14 thousand crane service purchase order from the Coast Guard at South Weymouth, Massachusetts (awarded March 2024), and a $17.3 thousand urgent crane and hoist brake system repair purchase order from the Maritime Administration at Great Neck, New York (awarded July 2026). Work spans commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance (25 awards), heavy civil engineering construction (5 awards), and construction equipment merchant wholesaling (3 awards).

Activity runs sparse and episodic: one award in 2020, three in 2023, four in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026. The combined potential value across all 39 awards totals $728 thousand, though obligated dollars run to $2 million (269% of potential value), indicating substantial contract modifications or price increases over time. Shawmut operates as a subcontractor to 381 Constructors on the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Multi-Mission Dry Dock #1 project in Kittery, Maine, where it supplies crane operators, valve assemblies, wire rope, gaskets, clamps, fasteners, and HVAC components (seven sub-awards from July 2023 through December 2024), and to Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC on Naval Nuclear Laboratory management and operation support (two sub-awards in 2024 and 2025). The SCI dataset captures minimal activity — 0.7 FTEs delivered on a single named-subcontractor record in FY2024 — indicating that the bulk of Shawmut's federal work flows through small purchase orders for equipment and materials rather than reportable service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold.