Tidewater Testing Services, Inc.

Tidewater Testing Services, Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in Surry, Virginia, provides equipment inspection, testing, certification, and load-testing services for cranes, hoists, rappel towers, and weight handling equipment to the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security as a prime contractor on purchase-order contracts. The company operates predominantly in full-and-open competition (99% of recent awards are prime contracts with no set-aside designation), though it has held Total Small Business set-asides on selected awards. Tidewater specializes in concrete capability areas including crane and hoist inspection and certification, weight testing of facility equipment, hydraulic repair services, and spreader-bar testing and certification for military installations and Coast Guard bases.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense and maritime agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 67% of recent awards and include the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (21 awards, $141 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Army (19 awards, $223 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy (11 awards, $184 thousand combined potential value). When ranked by dollar potential, the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command anchors the portfolio at $1.4 million across 10 awards, driven by a recent $444,789 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded May 5, 2026, for inspections and load tests on cranes and hoists at Fort Eustis with a completion date of May 10, 2031. Other representative recent work includes a $79,062 Department of the Army purchase order for rappel tower safety inspections at Fort Walker, Virginia (awarded July 18, 2025, completing March 17, 2030), and a $44,550 Air Combat Command total small business set-aside for hoist, crane, and lift inspection and certification at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (awarded March 27, 2024, completing March 26, 2028). Activity has been episodic—three awards in 2024, two in 2025, one in 2026—with modest recompete exposure (one award worth $45 thousand reaching completion in the next twenty-four months).

Tidewater carries minimal subcontractor presence; the source identifies one sub-award under Amentum Technology, Inc., for overhead crane repair facility maintenance and engineering services at NASA Langley Research Center (awarded September 17, 2025). The company's award footprint spans 102 federal contracts since 1991, with combined potential value of $2.8 million and $2.5 million obligated to date. Primary NAICS coding reflects the equipment repair and maintenance posture: Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (32 awards) and Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing (22 awards). Work is performed at military installations and Coast Guard facilities across Virginia and subordinate DoD and DHS regional commands.

Osha crane certifications, inspections, steel fabrication, crane systems installation and repairs, and automotive lifts