Tote Services, LLC

Tote Services, LLC, doing business as Tote, is a large maritime vessel operations and ship management contractor headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, operating as a subsidiary of Saltchuk Resources, Inc. Tote competes full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-asides, holding established large-business status across its federal portfolio. The company delivers comprehensive maritime support services to the Department of the Navy, Maritime Administration, Missile Defense Agency, and Military Sealift Command, operating approximately $1.5 billion in collective Navy Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded in August–September 2025 for ten-year terms through July 2035, alongside a $260.68 million Military Sealift Command definitive contract for USNS SBX-1 operation and maintenance through March 2031, and a $2.254 billion Naval Sea Systems Command vessel-construction-manager contract for Medium Landing Ship construction through September 2031.

Tote's capability portfolio centers on maritime vessel operations and ship management across government-owned multipurpose sealift, research, and radar-equipped vessels. The company delivers 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. Representative work includes $17.3 million for Cape Trinity fiscal year 2025 drydock maintenance and repairs (Navy, September 2025), $10.664 million for Cape San Juan fiscal year 2026 mission operation pathways (Navy, May 2026), and $260.68 million for operation and maintenance of USNS SBX-1 (Military Sealift Command, October 2025). Recent activity also spans custodial services for National Security Multi-Mission Vessels—a $497 million delivery order for NSMV VI delivery (Maritime Administration, June 2026) and $9–12 million orders for NSMV Patriot State and State of Maine custodial and cost-reimbursable services (Maritime Administration, December 2025).

Customer concentration is dominated by maritime agencies. The Department of the Navy's Secretary of the Navy office accounts for 1,666 awards worth $3.44 billion, while the Maritime Administration holds 1,344 awards worth $4.7 billion combined potential value—together representing approximately 83% of Tote's federal award count. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command and Military Sealift Command add an additional $6.25 billion and $974.1 million respectively across smaller award counts, reflecting higher-value definitive contracts. The Missile Defense Agency contributes 33 awards worth $41.5 million, primarily for operational support of the Pacific Collector and Pacific Tracker vessels.

Tote holds four single-award Navy ship management IDVs awarded in 2025—Ship Group 07 ($283.2 million), Ship Group 11 ($327.7 million), Ship Group 16 ($234.3 million), and Ship Group 22 ($289 million)—each covering ten years through July 2035. The company also sits on the Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 2025). Maritime Administration IDVs include standing vessel custodial services and management-fee contracts for NSMV Patriot State, State of Maine, and Empire State. Task-order velocity has accelerated: 78 awards in 2022 to 110 in 2026 year-to-date, with 147 awards (combined potential value $278.6 million) scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting significant recompete exposure across the Navy and Maritime Administration portfolios.

Tote operates as a pure prime contractor, winning 100% of its 3,567 awards as prime and carrying two sub-awards only as a named subcontractor to unrelated primes. The company does not subcontract meaningfully within its own delivery structure; across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, average sub-hours share is zero, indicating direct delivery of labor and services. Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal reportable activity—zero dollars invoiced across FY2022–FY2025 under the $150,000 SCI threshold—reflecting the fact that Tote's federal work is dominated by high-value IDIQs and definitive contracts for vessel operations and construction rather than smaller service procurements.

Tote Services brings established federal contracting presence since 2003 and operates as the Navy's primary single-source maritime support provider across four distinct vessel groups spanning Ready Reserve Force CAPE-class vessels (Cape Taylor, Cape Texas, Cape Trinity, Cape Henry, Cape Hudson, Cape Horn, Cape Sable, Cape Juan, Cape Starr, Cape San Juan) and sealift research platforms (Pacific Collector, Pacific Tracker). The company's scope encompasses activation and deactivation, drydock and sea trials, crew management, emergency repairs, regulatory compliance, and sustained operations—activities critical to preserving national sealift readiness and enabling global power projection.