Tote Services, LLC

Tote Services, LLC, doing business as Tote, a Jacksonville, Florida–based subsidiary of Saltchuk Resources, Inc., delivers comprehensive maritime vessel operations, ship management, and federal sealift logistics to the Department of the Navy, Maritime Administration, Military Sealift Command, and Missile Defense Agency as a prime contractor with no minority business designations, competing full-and-open and holding no set-asides across its federal footprint.

Tote operates as the Navy's primary single-source maritime support provider across four vessel groups under approximately $1.5 billion in collective Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded August–September 2025 (Ship Groups 07, 09, 11, 16, and 20–22), each covering ten years through July 2035. The vendor's scope encompasses vessel operations and maintenance, crew management and daily crewing costs, regulatory compliance and Phase M inspections, port and canal transit operations, fuel and lubricant provision, ship manager fixed fees, dock trials and sea trials, drydock authorization and management, security services, and technical consulting across the Navy's Ready Reserve Force and CAPE-class multipurpose sealift vessels. Tote also holds a $4 billion SeaPort Next Generation contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for vessel activation and deactivation, port operations, fuel provision, and technical support, and a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency awarded December 2025. Recent definitive contracts include $260.6 million (Military Sealift Command, October 2025) for operation and maintenance of USNS SBX-1 through March 2031 and $22.6 million (Military Sealift Command, August 2025) for operation and maintenance of USNS Wheeler through September 2026. Representative delivery-order work includes $1.5 billion in four Navy single-award ship management IDVs collectively (awarded August–September 2025, ten-year terms); $2.3 million and $1.9 million Missile Defense Agency delivery orders for Pacific Collector and Pacific Tracker operational mission support (May–November 2025); and $5 million, $4.5 million, and $3 million Maritime Administration delivery orders for NSMV Patriot State, State of Maine, and Empire State custodial services and pre-homeport arrival activities (December 2025–March 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme and aligned: the Department of the Navy (1,631 awards, $3.39 billion combined potential value) and Maritime Administration (1,337 awards, $3.63 billion) account for 86% of awards and anchor the vendor's portfolio. Naval Sea Systems Command's $4 billion SeaPort-NXG vehicle represents 27% of total combined potential value despite only four awards in the dataset, underscoring vehicle-based concentration. Tote receives task orders from Navy entities (Secretary of the Navy, Military Sealift Command, Naval Sea Systems Command) and Maritime Administration, with per-delivery-order values ranging from $25 thousand to $260.6 million across maintenance, repair, crewing, fuel, regulatory, and operational mission support. The vendor maintains no identified subcontractors in the SCI dataset and operates with effectively zero SCI-reportable invoiced revenue in FY2022–FY2024 (38 SCI records, $0 invoiced; 10.5 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 0.0 by FY2024), indicating that the majority of Tote's federal revenue flows through non-SCI-reportable contract types (definitive and delivery-order primes) or classified programs.

Performance locations span distributed geographic sites—Beaumont and Orange, Texas; Baltimore, Maryland; San Francisco and Portland, California; Marrero, Louisiana; and other Navy and Maritime Administration facilities—consistent with the Navy's nationwide sealift fleet footprint. Tote competes full-and-open across all awards with no set-asides and holds established large-business status. Within the next twenty-four months, 140 awards carrying $286.9 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion, presenting significant recompete exposure across maintenance, repair, regulatory, and operational vessel-support contracts. The vendor's parent, Saltchuk Resources, Inc., is a for-profit corporate entity holding federal prime contract and federal grant authority, indicating a diversified enterprise structure. Tote's continuous federal contractor registration since March 2003 and primary-contractor relationship with the Navy across multiple vessel classes position it as a critical enabler of U.S. maritime readiness and national sealift capability.