Vanport Marine, Inc.

Vanport Marine, Inc., doing business as Vanport Marine Inc., is a Portland, Oregon-based small business that performs ship repair, dockside maintenance, and marine fabrication services for federal agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of its recent awards. The company operates under a total small business set-aside posture, competing exclusively in that category across its prime footprint, and specializes in topside repair, tank cleaning and inspection, engine overhauls, deck preservation, and equipment installation on federal research vessels and cutters.

Vanport Marine's customer concentration is extreme. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 59 of 84 total awards (70% of award count) and $233.5 million of the $261.4 million combined potential value across the prime footprint — a 89% concentration that drives the vendor's entire business model. The U.S. Coast Guard represents the second-largest customer with 13 awards totaling $6.9 million, followed by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers with 5 awards across two separate organizations totaling roughly $879 thousand combined. Beyond those three agencies, the vendor has executed work for the Department of the Navy and the General Services Administration, but NOAA's oceanographic research mission dominates all other activity by a wide margin.

Vanport Marine holds a seat on the Fleetwide Dockside and Ship Maintenance IDIQ, a $73.8 million multiple-award contract with NOAA established in September 2023 with an ordering period through August 2028. Five task orders under that IDIQ carry $6.6 million in combined potential value. The vendor also places work under three additional indefinite delivery contracts and appears on the GSA Federal Acquisition Service Schedule with 13 task orders totaling $643 thousand. Recent representative work includes a $2.75 million firm fixed-price delivery order from NOAA for fiscal year 2026 dockside repairs to NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada (awarded November 2025, ultimate completion December 2025), a $1.77 million firm fixed-price delivery order for FY27 dockside repairs to the same vessel (awarded October 2026, ultimate completion November 2026), a $1.61 million delivery order for dockside repairs to NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson (awarded July 2025, ultimate completion December 2025), and a $3.58 million firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Coast Guard for ship repair services aboard USCGC Stratton including tank cleaning, engine overhauls, and related maintenance (awarded November 2022, ultimate completion November 2023).

Activity has declined sharply since 2022, when the vendor received six awards; recent years show two awards in 2023, one in 2024, four in 2025, and three in 2026. Only one award (combined potential value $1.8 million) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete exposure in that window. The vendor's recent Service Contract Inventory activity shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $1.1 million in FY2022, $4.6 million in FY2023, and zero in FY2024, with government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts running a median of $358.48 per hour (10th percentile $96.81/hr, 90th percentile $532.83/hr). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractor hours represent only 2% of total contractor hours, indicating that Vanport Marine builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on sub-labor. The vendor maintains two small subcontract engagements with Crowley Government Services for deck preservation and flight deck repairs on Coast Guard vessels (both February 2025 sub-awards), but operates predominantly as a prime contractor. All of Vanport Marine's prime work falls under NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), with secondary activity under machinery repair and fabricated metal manufacturing.

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