Vanport Marine, Inc.

Vanport Marine, Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based small business, provides specialized ship repair, dockside maintenance, and marine fabrication services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 98% of recent awards in prime roles across vessel repair and industrial equipment work. The company operates under a total small business set-aside designation under NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and is structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation.

NOAA dominates Vanport Marine's customer footprint with outsized concentration. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 94% of recent awards, but NOAA's share is overwhelming: 57 awards valued at $231.4 million combined potential value represents 89% of the vendor's total award portfolio and 100% of the potential-value ranking. The Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard ranks second with 13 awards ($6.9 million combined potential), followed by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (5 awards, $879 thousand), with the Department of the Navy and GSA Federal Acquisition Service contributing nominal counts and dollars. This concentration reflects Vanport Marine's specialization in oceanographic vessel maintenance for NOAA's research fleet.

Vanport Marine holds a $73.8 million Fleetwide Dockside and Ship Maintenance IDIQ with NOAA (ordering period through August 2028) as its anchor vehicle, from which the vendor issues delivery orders for routine maintenance on NOAA research vessels including the Bell M. Shimada, Oscar Dyson, and Rainier. Recent prime work includes a $2.75 million Competitive 8(a) delivery order for FY2026 dockside repairs to the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada (awarded November 2025), a $1.61 million delivery order for Oscar Dyson dockside repairs (July 2025), and a $3.58 million definitive contract with the Coast Guard for tank cleaning, engine overhauls, and repair services aboard the USCGC STRATTON (awarded November 2022). The vendor also holds positions on multiple IDCs including contracts with the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal supply schedules, with smaller task-order activity under GSA Federal Supply Schedule GS21F186AA (13 task orders, $643 thousand combined potential value).

Activity trajectory shows volatility in recent years—six awards in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and four in 2025—with combined obligated dollars at $35 million against a $259.4 million combined potential value portfolio (14% obligation rate). This gap reflects the IDIQ structure and the vendor's historical award pipeline; the $73.8 million NOAA IDIQ ceiling anchors the potential-value aggregate despite moderate annual task-order issuance rates. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (98% of awards), with minimal subcontractor activity—only two sub awards identified in the source, both under Crowley Government Services, Inc. for USCGC Curtiss flight-deck and preservation work (February 2025). SCI-reportable service-contract activity shows modest federal service-contract invoicing of $1.1 million in FY2022 and $4.6 million in FY2023 (representing 1.6 and 4.4 FTEs respectively), with no SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2024. On federal service contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $358/hr, with senior labor pricing through $533/hr, reflecting technical marine-repair labor. Vanport Marine's capability footprint centers on topside ship repair, tank cleaning and inspection, engine overhauls, deck preservation, and specialized marine fabrication—work performed predominantly in Newport, Oregon and at federal facilities such as Coast Guard bases and NOAA marine operations centers.

Marine and industrial welding,steel fabrication,damage repair, pipe fitting, rigging, surveys, mechanical & hydraulic system maintenance and repairs. Mobilizing crews of certified welders, machinists, mechanics to facilities and vessels on west coast.