Vestdavit, Inc.

Vestdavit, Inc., a Norwegian-owned, for-profit limited liability company and subsidiary of Fairbanks Morse, LLC, manufactures and services maritime davit systems, winches, boat handling equipment, and related hydraulic and mechanical components for federal maritime agencies as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards). The company competes full-and-open, without SBA set-aside participation, though a small number of historical awards carried small business set-aside designations. Vestdavit is headquartered in Edmonds, Washington, with performance locations distributed across Norfolk, Virginia; Woodway, Washington; and various coastal sites supporting federal vessel fleets.

Vestdavit's federal work concentrates on original equipment manufacturer (OEM) davit system maintenance, repair, inspection, and component supply for research vessels and naval platforms. Representative prime work includes a $7,433,914 single-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on September 9, 2026, for Vestdavit system grooms, inspection, and repair services across NOAA's surface vessel fleet through April 30, 2031; a $5,082,767 single-award IDIQ from Naval Sea Systems Command (ultimate completion September 29, 2023) for OEM davit rescue boat repair on Littoral Combat Ship Freedom-class vessels; and a $199,312 delivery order from NOAA for OEM vestdavit procurement and installation of a port horizontal stowage and launch (HSL) davit on NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, awarded September 8, 2023. Smaller routine tasks include a $175,629 delivery order for FY26 Henriksen hook procurement and maritime equipment services to NOAA (September 11, 2026), a $74,706 Military Sealift Command order for technical services supporting vest davit systems on USNS Cody and USNS Apalachicola (December 19, 2024), and a $68,582 delivery order from NOAA for parts to repair small boat davit deficiencies on NOAA Ship Fairweather (December 1, 2024).

Customer concentration is extreme and narrowly distributed across two federal agencies. NOAA accounts for 58 awards ($13.4 million combined potential value, 63% of the portfolio by dollars) and Naval Sea Systems Command for 34 awards ($6.5 million, 30% of dollars). These two agencies together represent 89% of award count and 93% of combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command, US Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic), and the US Coast Guard round out the top five, accounting for $557 thousand, $437 thousand, and $194 thousand respectively. This concentration reflects Vestdavit's established role as a specialized OEM supplier tied to specific vessel platforms (NOAA's Thomas Jefferson, Rainier, Fairweather, and Ferdinand Hassler research ships; Navy Littoral Combat Ships; carrier and surface combatant platforms).

Vestdavit holds two principal indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring its prime footprint. NOAA Indefinite Delivery Contract 1305M220DNMAN0074, renewed multiple times, carries 39 task orders totaling $2.5 million combined potential value and supports routine maintenance, grooms, inspections, and component procurement for NOAA's research vessel davit systems. Naval Sea Systems Command single-award IDIQ N5005422D0001 funds davit rescue boat repairs on Littoral Combat Ships. Vestdavit also places work under Basic Ordering Agreement N0002419G2319 (four task orders) and single-award IDIQs N0002423D4100 (three task orders) and 1305M226D0017 (two task orders, $191 thousand combined potential value), all Navy vehicles. All vehicles are non-set-aside, full-and-open competitive procurements.

Work volume has declined year over year: 21 awards in 2022, declining through 12 in 2025 and 11 in 2026 (through September). The combined potential value of awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months stands at $239 thousand, indicating minimal recompete exposure but also limited near-term pipeline visibility in the source data. In its subcontractor role, Vestdavit delivers davit repairs, weld work, and system grooms to major shipbuilding and maintenance primes including Huntington Ingalls Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, Metro Machine Corp., and HII Fleet Support Group LLC, typically in support of carrier and Littoral Combat Ship maintenance and new construction. Recent sub work includes carrier engineering maintenance assistance team technical repair support for USS George H.W. Bush port and starboard vest davit self-tension systems (August 29, 2025, under HII Fleet Support Group) and advanced planning work on a CVN 75 refueling and complex overhaul starboard RHIB davit maintenance requirement (July 11, 2025, under Huntington Ingalls).

Vestdavit's NAICS footprint aligns with its hardware and repair orientation: Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (45 awards), Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing (41 awards), and Ship Building and Repairing (23 awards) dominate the portfolio. PSC codes reflect maritime equipment focus — Maintenance, Repair, Rebuild of Equipment Ships and Small Craft (33 awards), Winches, Hoists, Cranes, and Derricks (10 awards), and Deck Machinery (9 awards) are the leading categories. The company functions as a sole-source OEM vendor for Vestdavit and Henriksen maritime equipment, competing on proprietary design and established fleet relationships rather than on price or broad capability breadth.