Four Small Businesses Awarded $243M for Submarine Repair Support at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Orbis Sibro Inc.,* Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina (N3904025D0001); Delphinus Engineering Inc.,* Eddystone, Pennsylvania (N3904025D0002); QED Systems Inc.,* Virginia Beach, Virginia (N3904025D0003); and Mills Marine & Ship Repair LLC,* Suffolk, Virginia (N3904025D0004), are being awarded a combined cumulative $242,986,812 in cost-plus-fixed-fee, multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide non-nuclear trade labor production support services for upcoming U.S. naval submarine repair and overhaul project availabilities at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. The contract will have a five-year ordering period and a maximum value of $242,986,812 for the total of all awarded. The trade services to be provided under these task orders will cover the following 15 trade skills: marine electrician worker; industrial fire watch/laborer; marine pipefitter; outside marine machinist; marine painter; weight handler (rigger); marine shipfitter; shipwright (staging builder); welder; sheet metal worker; marine insulator (lagger); abrasive blaster; deck tile setter; sound tile setter; and fabric worker. Work will be performed in Kittery, Maine, and is expected to be completed by March 2029. Each vendor will be awarded $1,000 (minimum contract guarantee per awardee) at contract award. Fiscal 2025 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $4,000 ($1,000 minimum guarantee per awarded contract) will be obligated at time of award. All future task orders placed against the contract will utilize funding of the applicable fiscal year in which the task orders are awarded. The contract is being awarded using the policies and procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 15 and 16, contracting by negotiation, as supplemented by the Defense FAR Supplement, and the Navy-Marine Corps FAR Supplement. These contracts were procured competitively via the Government Point of Entry at SAM.gov, with seven offers received. The contract is being awarded as a partial small business set-aside. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, is the contracting activity.