Tidewater Marine Electric LLC

Tidewater Marine Electric LLC, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, manufactures and distributes specialized electrical components and materials for military and naval defense applications as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) and subcontractor on Navy ship modernization programs. The company operates predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides when available, with the remainder competed full-and-open; WOSB designation appears across the prime footprint.

Tidewater's capability portfolio centers on electrical hardware manufacturing and distribution—flexible metal conduits, electrical adapters, terminal boxes, junction boxes, stuffing tubes, cable shield assemblies, pipe fittings, shore power receptacles, and related connectors—all procured for aircraft, ground vehicle, and naval vessel maintenance and modernization. Representative prime work includes a $331,421 indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation for flexible metal conduits (April 2024–April 2026, single-award, Total Small Business set-aside); a $250,000 IDC with DLA Aviation for electrical adapters and terminal boxes (July 2023–July 2024, single-award, Total Small Business); an $85,650 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for shore power receptacles and splice kits for USS COLE (DDG-67) in February 2026; and numerous task orders for smaller electrical components across DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime. The company self-performs manufacturing and distribution work from its Virginia Beach facility.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. DLA Aviation accounts for 447 awards (54% of the footprint) with $5.5 million in combined potential value; Naval Sea Systems Command follows with 182 awards and $2.5 million; DLA Land and Maritime holds 112 awards and $2.6 million. Together these three customers represent 95% of award count and 97% of potential value. All other federal customers—including Naval Supply Systems Command, Information Warfare Systems Command, and Fleet Cyber Command—are vestigial.

Parent vehicles are agency-specific: SPAWAR Afloat C4ISR Installations 2019 (28 task orders), three single-award IDCs under DLA numbered vehicles (N0018906A0095, SPE4A621D0080, SPE4A620D0088) with 13–17 task orders each, and a BPA with DLA (N0017814A4524) carrying eight task orders. Tidewater holds no positions on government-wide acquisition contracts or GSA schedules; all vehicles are DLA-administered or Navy-specific.

Activity has remained stable in the 56–67 awards-per-year band over the past five years (2022–2025), with only ten awards recorded year-to-date in 2026 as of April. Combined potential value across all 827 awards stands at $11.3 million, though obligated dollars total $17.8 million—suggesting either unit-price adjustments or prior-year obligations exceeding stated ceiling values. The recompete cliff is not explicitly provided in the source; however, most individual purchase orders and delivery orders carry completion dates within 30–120 days, indicating a portfolio of short-cycle transactional awards rather than multi-year vehicles requiring substantial recompete activity.

Subcontract footprint shows Tidewater supplying electrical materials and components to major shipbuilding and modernization primes, particularly Delphinus Engineering, M.C. Dean, Serco, Prism Maritime, BAE Systems Maritime Solutions divisions, Metro Machine Corp, and VT Milcom. Recent sub work includes electrical apparatus and conduit assemblies for USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) habitability restoration under Delphinus; C4ISR electrical support aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) under Serco; shore power and electro-optic systems electrical materials under Prism Maritime; and ship-repair materials for USS Ramage (DDG-61) and USS Green Bay (LPD-20) under BAE Systems subsidiaries. Sub-awards are concentrated in 2024–2026 and represent vessel-specific material provisioning rather than engineering or labor services.

The vendor's NAICS footprint reflects electrical component manufacturing and distribution: Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing (369 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing (123), and Electronic Connector Manufacturing (72) predominate. PSC codes confirm the commodity focus: Electrical Hardware and Supplies (503 awards), Connectors Electrical (105), and Lugs, Terminals, and Terminal Strips (48) represent 95% of procurements. This is a pure supply-chain vendor—no professional services, no engineering, no labor—operating as a catalog distributor and light manufacturer to the defense logistics and naval maintenance industrial base.

We provide electrical & industrial equipment & apparatus, wiring supplies and miscellaneous equipment for the Naval & Marine industries.