Smith-Berger Marine, Inc.

Smith-Berger Marine, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Seattle, Washington, manufactures discrete maritime hardware components and specialized ship equipment for the federal government as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under full-and-open procurement with recurring small business set-asides, particularly from the U.S. Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Smith-Berger Marine's capability portfolio centers on precision-manufactured maritime hardware: pulleys, sheaves, fairleads, shaft collars, mounting plates, blocks and tackle assemblies, helical compression springs, seals, spacers, pins, bolts, and associated fastening components. The company manufactures to naval and commercial specifications (NSNs) for defense logistics and ship maintenance operations. Representative work includes a $93,640 total small business set-aside purchase order from Military Sealift Command (awarded September 2023) for original equipment manufacturer fairlead parts on the USNS Laramie; a $87,840 purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard (December 2022) for blocks and tackle for drum power equipment; a $76,312 purchase order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (February 2025) for a 14-inch sheave; a $42,011 Coast Guard award (May 2025) for service and repair of a CGC Healy snatch block; and a $34,516 total small business set-aside from NOAA (November 2024) for workspace maintenance and ship operations support for the Okeanos Explorer research vessel. Current activity reflects a sharp uptick: nine awards in 2022 and 2023, eight in 2024, then fifty-six in 2025 and forty-nine in 2026 year-to-date, with a combined potential value across all 248 awards of $5.4 million.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to federal maritime and logistics customers. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime leads by award count (eighty-one awards, $991 thousand combined potential value) but ranks second by dollars behind Military Sealift Command, which anchors the portfolio with twenty-three awards valued at $2.5 million combined potential value — roughly 46 percent of the vendor's total federal footprint. The U.S. Coast Guard contributes twenty-three awards ($906 thousand), DLA Aviation forty-three awards ($23 thousand), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment twenty-six awards ($378 thousand), and the Army Corps of Engineers one award ($194 thousand). The top five customers by potential value represent 92 percent of combined potential across all awards. The vendor holds a newly awarded single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime (December 8, 2025, through December 8, 2026, $350 thousand ceiling) for helical compression springs, National Stock Number 5360003771441, with an estimated four orders placed annually and a guaranteed minimum of one unit per order with 89-day delivery windows.

Set-aside posture splits between full-and-open and total small business set-asides. Recent high-dollar awards mix the two: the $93,640 and $40,414 Military Sealift Command roller fairlead orders both carry total small business set-aside designations; the $87,840 and $86,240 Coast Guard blocks and tackle awards both carry total small business set-asides; the $76,312 Army Corps sheave award and $42,011 Coast Guard snatch block repair carry no set-aside. A majority of DLA Land and Maritime orders, which represent the vendor's largest customer by count, compete under full-and-open. Smith-Berger Marine earned $5.1 million in obligated dollars against $5.4 million in combined potential value (95% realization rate), indicating consistent delivery on awarded contracts. Five awards (combined potential value $177 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face potential recompete risk.

The vendor competes entirely as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint appears in the source. Award frequency has accelerated significantly in 2025 and 2026, driven by routine replenishment and maintenance procurement cycles from established customers rather than new customer acquisition. Manufacturing focus clusters in hardware fabrication and assembly: the top NAICS categories include All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (44 awards), Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing (31 awards), Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing (29 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (26 awards), and Speed Changer, Industrial High-Speed Drive, and Gear Manufacturing (26 awards). Top product and service codes track the hardware mix: Gears, Pulleys, Sprockets, and Transmission Chain (32 awards); Packing and Gasket Materials (30 awards); Winches, Hoists, Cranes, and Derricks (29 awards); Commercial Hardware (22 awards); and Bushings, Rings, Shims, and Spacers (18 awards). Smith-Berger Marine operates exclusively in discrete component supply to maritime and defense logistics customers; the company has no presence on government-wide vehicles, GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs.

Mooring and Towing Equipment including fairleads, sheaves, chain stoppers, flag blocks, towing pins, and stern rollers