ST. Johns Boat Company

ST. Johns Boat Company, doing business as ST Johns Boat Co, a small disadvantaged business based in Jacksonville, Florida, operates a full-service shipyard providing drydock repairs, hull preservation, propulsion system maintenance, and vessel modernization services to federal maritime agencies as a prime contractor (86% of recent awards). The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across the Coast Guard, Navy, and Army Corps of Engineers, with a minority of awards issued full-and-open.

Customer concentration sits heavily with naval and coastal defense agencies. The top five funding entities account for 77% of awards by count: the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (35 awards, $7 million potential value), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Jacksonville (24 awards, $11.6 million), the Department of the Navy Installations Command (21 awards, $1.7 million), the Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region (16 awards, $860 thousand), and the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (14 awards, $1.4 million). By potential value, however, the rankings diverge sharply — the Department of the Navy United States Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) anchors the portfolio at $149.5 million across just ten awards, primarily through a single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) valued at $114.9 million for surface ship maintenance and repair services at Naval Station Mayport. This vessel represents the company's largest customer relationship by far, whereas the Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers drive volume through discrete purchase orders and smaller BPA calls averaging $100 thousand to $300 thousand per task.

ST. Johns Boat Company holds three active parent vehicles: a $114.9 million single-award IDC with US Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic Fleet) for ship maintenance and repair at Naval Station Mayport with 19 task orders; a $2.5 million multiple-award BPA with the Army Corps of Engineers (ENDIST Jacksonville) for ship repair, modifications, survey services, and navigation system replacements with 10 task orders worth $493 thousand combined; and a $9.8 million multiple-award IDIQ with Navy Expeditionary Combat Command for small boat support services through February 2027. Representative prime work includes a $1.401 million definitive contract from the Coast Guard for drydock repair and maintenance of USCGC HAWK (awarded May 2026), a $1.063 million definitive contract for USCGC SEA HORSE drydock repairs (awarded April 2026), a $753 thousand definitive contract for USCGC SEA FOX drydock repairs (awarded July 2025), and a $395.7 thousand BPA call from the Army Corps of Engineers for the Salzer Overhaul and Repower project running through April 2026. The company also holds a $327.7 thousand purchase order from Navy Installations Command for continuous priority parking services for up to six SV64 Security Vessels during contingency situations, supporting the Trident II (D-5) Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile program through September 2030.

Award activity has grown — 11 awards in 2022 to 24 in 2024 — then contracted to 9 in 2025 and 4 in 2026 (year-to-date as of June). Four awards worth $1.8 million combined reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure primarily on smaller Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers task orders rather than the large Navy vehicle. In its subcontractor capacity, ST. Johns Boat Company delivers boat repair, shaft seal installation, shipyard repair services, and facilities lease work under KBR Services, LLC primes on Marine Corps Prepositioning Program and Navy sustainment contracts; and haul-out services to The Dutra Group on dredging and navigation projects at Naval Station Mayport. The company subcontracts work rarely — 14% of the portfolio by award count — and operates primarily as a prime builder of its own delivery teams.

The company's service contract inventory footprint is minimal and does not reflect its actual federal business volume. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $821 thousand in FY2024 under a single prime contract at $143.17 per hour, delivered by 2.8 FTEs. This figure captures only service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes the vast majority of ST. Johns Boat Company's federal revenue, which flows through firm fixed-price vessel repair and maintenance contracts (goods and services combined) and purchase orders below or outside the SCI scope. The company's core federal revenue derives from shipyard repair work, not hourly labor services, and SCI's absence of FY2022 and FY2023 activity does not indicate a lack of federal contracting during those years — it reflects the SCI reporting threshold and contract type mix. By NAICS code, 113 of 143 awards fall under 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), with 19 awards in machinery and equipment repair and maintenance. The company received a $221.175 thousand grant from the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration in support of capital improvements to its shipyard, positioning it as a federally recognized vessel-repair resource.