Tecnico Corporation

Tecnico Corporation, a small business manufacturer and marine services provider headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, is a prime contractor delivering hull, mechanical, electrical, and blasting support services to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, with 66% of recent awards held as prime contracts and the remainder as subcontracts to major defense primes. Tecnico is a subsidiary of American Maritime Holdings LLC, a foreign-owned entity, and operates alongside sibling subsidiaries including Propulsion Controls Engineering and Lyon Shipyard & Fabrication.

Tecnico's customer concentration is extreme: Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 1,935 of the vendor's 3,748 awards (52% of total count) and $8.77 billion of the $10.11 billion combined potential value (87% of dollars). Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) places 400 awards worth $588.6 million, and Military Sealift Command adds 107 awards worth $357.9 million; together these three Navy entities represent 92% of award count and 98% of potential value. Tecnico's work footprint spans ship repair, maintenance, and modernization across surface combatants (guided-missile destroyers, cruisers), amphibious vessels (landing platform docks, landing helicopter docks), and aircraft carriers (CVN 68 through CVN 81 series). Representative prime work includes a $114 million multiple-award IDIQ for production resources and manufacturing services at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (awarded March 2026, total small business set-aside, 2031 completion), a $52.2 million multiple-award IDIQ for marine boatyard and maintenance support under the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center program (December 2025, total small business), a $4.535 million definitive contract with the Coast Guard for dockside renewal of CGC NORTHLAND's main diesel engine (March 2026, total small business set-aside), and a $5.9 million delivery order with Fleet Forces Command for ship repair and modernization on USS Indianapolis (January 2026, no set-aside). Most awards are firm fixed-price delivery orders or definitive contracts under multiple-award IDIQ vehicles. Place of performance clusters in Norfolk, Jacksonville, Bremerton, and Portsmouth across Atlantic Fleet and Naval Base Kitsap infrastructure.

Tecnico holds positions on multiple Navy ship-maintenance IDIQs managed by Naval Sea Systems Command. The top parent vehicles are Indefinite Delivery Contract N0018902D0012 (204 task orders, $16.5 million combined potential value), N0014099DG405 (183 task orders), N6267802D2004 (154 task orders, $10.8 million), N6554013D0008 (137 task orders, $384.4 million), and N4002508D8004 (98 task orders, $7.4 million). The composition is dominated by non-nuclear ship repair and maintenance vehicles positioned on the East Coast. Only three awards carry completion dates within the next twenty-four months, totaling $4.5 million in combined potential value, so recompete exposure is minimal in the near term.

The vendor operates as a strategic subcontractor to major defense primes on aircraft carrier overhaul programs. Tecnico subs to Huntington Ingalls Inc. (numerous CVN 80/81 detailed design and construction engineering efforts), HII Fleet Support Group LLC (carrier engineering maintenance assist team technical repair support across CVN 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76 during refueling and complex overhauls), Scientific Research Corporation (engineering support services on CVN 74 refueling and complex overhaul tasks), Metro Machine Corp (various docking selected restricted availability work), National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (USS America and USS Harpers Ferry restricted availability sub-contracts), Marine Hydraulics International LLC (USS Mesa Verde, USS New York, and USS Harpers Ferry selected restricted availability repairs), Serco Inc. (installation services on destroyers and amphibious vessels), and smaller teaming partners including BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, VT Milcom, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics Mission Systems, and General Dynamics Information Technology. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for a 5% share of total contractor hours, indicating Tecnico predominantly builds its own delivery teams for prime work.

SCI data shows Tecnico invoiced $7.1 million in federal service contracts from FY2022 through FY2024 — $3.2 million in FY2022, $2.2 million in FY2023, and $1.7 million in FY2024 — with a downward trajectory in reported service contract revenue. The SCI dataset captured roughly 48.6 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 3.1 in FY2023, then recovering to 39.5 in FY2024 across both prime and sub-reported roles. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $70.49 per hour to a median of $115.17 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $218.62 per hour at the 90th percentile. SCI is a partial view capturing only reportable service contracts above $150,000 and excludes the vast majority of Tecnico's federal revenue, which flows through firm fixed-price ship repair and maintenance delivery orders on Navy IDIQs.

SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION. FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS SUCH AS: HEAVY WELDMENTS, PIPING SYSTEMS, PLATE WORK, SHEET METAL, MACHINED PARTS, SHIPPING CONTAINERS & CUSTOM ASSEMBLIES. SURFACE PREPARATION, PAINTING & HYDROBLASTING UP TO 30000 PSI. MANUFACTURE & IN