Winner: FY 2007 Secretary of the Navy Outstanding Small Business Program Award

MSC awards more than $30 million per year in contracts to small businesses who provide marine engineering support to MSC ships.

Small Business Program

Small companies like yours can offer big maritime solutions for the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command and its global fleet of more than 110 civilian crewed, noncombatant ships and a workforce of more than 9,000 people.

Each year MSC awards approximately $400 million in contracts to companies who are registered as small businesses by the U.S. government's Small Business Administration.

Several small businesses under contract to MSC provide harbor-tug and port-operation services in support of U.S. Navy ships at nearly 20 ports.

MSC looks to the private sector to charter and operate ships; procure logistics support; recruit, process and retain more than 5,000 civil service mariners; and provide overhaul and repair services for more than 40 government-owned and operated ships.

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