Tote Maritime Alaska, LLC

Tote Maritime Alaska, LLC, a Tacoma, Washington-based subsidiary of Saltchuk Resources, Inc., is a prime contractor providing ocean and intermodal cargo transportation services to the Department of Defense and federal agencies under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations. The company operates as a specialized maritime carrier delivering consolidated transportation shipments globally, with a current federal award footprint of 298 prime contracts and IDVs representing a combined potential value of $4.8 billion and obligated dollars of $410.3 million across thirteen distinct customer agencies over the past five years.

Tote Maritime Alaska's capability portfolio centers exclusively on deep-sea freight transportation, coastal intermodal movements, and vessel charters for military equipment, supplies, and commercial cargo. The vendor's work is characterized by fixed-price delivery orders with economic price adjustment provisions, typically valued between $480 thousand and $3.7 million per order, reflecting monthly or quarterly execution cycles. Recent representative work includes a $635,752.55 delivery order from the Air Force for consolidated transportation shipments under USC-10 (February 2026), a $1.898 million order for similar services (September 2025), and a $1.543 million delivery order from Air Mobility Command for ocean and intermodal cargo transport (June 2023). The company also executed a $20,751.81 purchase order from the Federal Highway Administration to barge an under-bridge inspection vehicle between Washington and Alaska for Denali National Park bridge work (March 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Department of Defense components. The Department of the Air Force dominates by potential value at $4.01 billion across 15 awards (primarily the USC-10 IDIQ framework), while the Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command leads by award count with 84 orders valued at $501.8 million combined. The Office of the Secretary of Defense accounts for 100 awards ($53 million), and Air Mobility Command contributes 29 orders ($119.4 million). Together, these four customer buckets represent 83% of award count and the vast majority of dollar value. The concentration pattern reflects a maritime-transportation-specialized vendor whose federal business is almost entirely military logistics and sealift operations.

Tote Maritime Alaska operates under two primary indefinite-delivery vehicles. The Universal Services Contract 10 (USC-10), a $4 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by USTRANSCOM through Air Force Air Mobility Command on September 1, 2024, with a base period through August 31, 2025 and four one-year renewal options, has generated 19 task orders worth $15.6 million to date. The Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) Contingency Services contract, a zero-dollar-ceiling multiple-award IDV awarded on October 1, 2024, with a base period through September 30, 2029 and a five-year option plus six-month extension, establishes Tote Maritime Alaska as a pre-positioned contingency sealift provider. The vendor also holds active positions on the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 IDIQ (57 task orders, $52.7 million), USTRANSCOM Universal Service Contract-8 (36 task orders, $58.7 million), and the USTRANSCOM Sealift Cargo Transportation 2011-2014 vehicle (59 task orders, $34.9 million). Performance locations span Tacoma, Anchorage, Jacksonville, and international ports as required to support worldwide Department of Defense logistics.

Activity has remained steady year over year, with 9 awards in 2022 rising to 18 in 2024, then moderating to 15 in 2025 and 2 through early February 2026. The source spans award dates from June 1983 to February 1, 2026, reflecting a long-standing relationship with the Defense Transportation System. The vendor competes exclusively as a prime contractor — all 298 awards carry prime-contract designations with zero subcontract activity in the source. The narrowly specialized maritime-transportation mission, large parent-company backing from Saltchuk Resources, established relationships with Air Mobility Command and Army logistics commands, and secure positions on multi-billion-dollar sealift IDIQs position Tote Maritime Alaska as a critical provider rather than a broad-based federal contractor.