Washington Marine Cleaning LLC

Washington Marine Cleaning LLC, operating as California Marine Cleaning, delivers marine fluid management, tank cleaning, coating removal, and hazardous waste disposal services to the Department of the Navy and U.S. Coast Guard as a prime contractor (67% of recent awards) and subcontractor on naval vessel repair and modernization programs. The company is a small business based in Everett, Washington, and a child entity of California Marine Cleaning, Inc., a San Diego-headquartered parent company; Washington Marine Cleaning competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-aside designations on the prime side and full-and-open subcontracts with shipyard integrators.

Washington Marine Cleaning's federal footprint centers on specialized vessel support services grounded in environmental compliance and maritime maintenance. Prime work includes fuel and lube oil offload and disposal from naval vessels and submarines (USS Connecticut, USS Kentucky, USNS Guadalupe), tank and void cleaning for Virginia-class submarines at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, external coating removal (including ultra-high-pressure waterjet stripping of neoprene and duraX coatings from hydrodynamic test assets), oily wastewater management, and compensated water disposal. A $3.5 million definitive contract from Naval Sea Systems Command in March 2023 exemplifies peak contract scale—receipt and disposal of compensated water from USS Gridley (DDG 101) and USS Sampson (DDG 102) over a ninety-day window at Puget Sound. Representative smaller prime awards include a $210,415 lube oil supply purchase order (October 2023, US Pacific Fleet Forces) and a $96,657 external coatings removal task for the Dolly Varden scale model at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (February 2025, Naval Sea Systems Command, sole-source under Total Small Business set-aside).

Customer concentration is acute. Naval Sea Systems Command and US Pacific Fleet Forces account for 94% of recent awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. Naval Sea Systems Command leads with 59 awards totaling $3.9 million potential value, followed by US Pacific Fleet Forces with 48 awards totaling $1.1 million. The U.S. Coast Guard, Naval Air Warfare Center, and Military Sealift Command round out the active customer set. The two rankings align tightly—NAVSEA dominates both metrics—indicating a balanced portfolio across vessel classes and maintenance cycles rather than dollar concentration in a single large contract.

Washington Marine Cleaning places prime work under five named IDVs and BPAs: NWRMC Surface Ship Repair, Maintenance, and Modernization (8 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0002418D4415 (7 task orders), One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (5 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0002419D4310 (4 task orders), and Engineering and Support Services for Hull, Mechanical and Electrical Systems (3 task orders). The subcontract footprint is substantial and recent. Washington Marine Cleaning subcontracts to Vigor Marine LLC on tank and void cleaning, hull inspection and repair, and equipment transportation across multiple destroyer and littoral combat ship modernization programs (USS Gabrielle Giffords, USS Kidd, multiple TYCOM base items); to Delphinus Engineering, Inc. on water system cleaning, valve repair, and temporary services across DDG-class and DDG-51-class modernization contracts; to Metro Machine Corp on CVN-76 and aircraft carrier depot work; to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. on NAWCAD WOLF ship and air C5ISR systems support; and to Serco Inc. and QED Systems, Inc. on specific ship systems and piping flush tasks. These subcontracts span tank cleaning, hazardous waste control, system flushing, and temporary labor across active Navy vessel modernization and depot periods.

Activity has grown sharply—two awards in 2022, fifteen in 2023, fourteen in 2024, twenty-six in 2025, and seven in the first five months of 2026. The combined potential value across all 131 awards is $5.6 million, though obligated dollars across that portfolio total $28.7 million, indicating heavy draw-down on completion of prior-year contracts. The company's NAICS concentration is ship building and repairing (47 awards), hazardous waste treatment and disposal (23 awards), and hazardous waste collection (19 awards), with PSC concentration in transportation/motor freight (33 awards) and environmental remediation (17 awards), reflecting the fluid offload, tank cleaning, and waste disposal character of the work. No recompete cliff is stated in the source; however, the sharp climb in 2025–2026 award volume suggests either new vehicle placement or organic growth within existing task order pipelines. Washington Marine Cleaning's parent company, California Marine Cleaning, Inc., also holds a significant indefinite delivery contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for sanitary tank cleaning of Virginia-class submarines, positioning the corporate group as a dedicated provider for submarine and surface ship fluid and waste management across Pacific Fleet operations.