Snow & Company, Inc.

Snow & Company, Inc., doing business as Snow & Co Inc., a Seattle-based small business, operates as a prime contractor specializing in maritime vessel construction, repair, and modernization services for federal agencies, competing under total small business set-asides on roughly 60% of recent awards and full-and-open on the remainder. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with primary NAICS classification in boat building (336612) and ship building and repairing (336611), and secondary work in marine equipment manufacturing and specialized waterway maintenance.

Snow & Company's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy operations. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) dominates the portfolio with 15 awards worth $163.3 million in combined potential value across new construction, modernization, and vessel repair, anchored by a $54.17 million indefinite delivery contract for workboat medium products and services. Navy Installations Command places a secondary stream of 7 awards valued at $30.1 million for port operations preservation and vessel alteration, including a newly awarded $24.5 million IDC (effective July 2026 through July 2031) for repair and modernization of U.S. Navy waterborne barges (Yard Craft, Utility Float, and Utility Float Deep Draft vessels) in the Puget Sound region. Together, the two Navy customers account for 85% of recent awards and 100% of combined potential value. Secondary customers include the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service ($8.5 million for a mid-life retrofit on the research vessel Tiglax, completed April 2024), the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ($574 thousand across three awards for electrical systems and engine governor work), the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration ($817 thousand grant for capital equipment at the shipyard), and the Department of Agriculture ($467 thousand for an oyster research raft structure).

Recent representative work spans the scope. Snow & Company delivered a $16 million workboat medium under NAVSEA's core IDC (performance completed May 2025), a $4.2 million workboat large delivery order (completed February 2026), a $4.8 million workboat large delivery order (delivered March 2024), and smaller purchases including a $239 thousand engine mount replacement on five 90-foot tugs for Navy Installations Command (completed December 2024), a $177 thousand Schottel drive replacement (scheduled completion September 2026), and a $40 thousand rudder and propeller repair. The company also executed a $8.5 million mid-life retrofit of the Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Tiglax and received a $817 thousand grant from the Maritime Administration (CFDA 20.814, Assistance to Small Shipyards) in August 2025 for purchase and installation of a CNC laser cutting machine, CNC press brake, and deburring machine to enhance shipyard production capacity (ultimate completion August 2027).

Snow & Company operates as a 100% prime contractor — zero sub-awards appear in the source data. The SCI dataset captures minimal service-contract activity ($462 thousand invoiced in FY2022 with 1.7 FTEs, no reportable invoicing in FY2023 or FY2024), reflecting the vendor's primary business model as a goods and product provider (vessel construction and components) rather than labor-hours-intensive services. On the limited SCI records, government-paid rates ran from roughly $13.87/hr at the 10th percentile to $124.81/hr at the 90th percentile (median $69.34/hr), but this is not representative of the company's federal revenue model.

Activity has grown unevenly: two awards in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, and seven in 2025, with four additional awards in 2026. Two awards carrying minimal potential value ($1 thousand total) reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure near-term. The company holds two active indefinite delivery contracts with Navy Installations Command — the recently awarded $24.5 million IDC (through July 2031) for barge repair and modernization and a $5 million IDC (through August 2028) for port operations preservation and district craft maintenance — providing stable vehicle platforms for continued Navy task orders. Work is performed at the contractor's facility in the Puget Sound, Washington region (Olympia northward to Bellingham), with secondary performance locations in Silver Spring, Maryland (for NOAA work) and Newport, Oregon (for USDA agricultural research structures).