Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX
OCEAN SHIPS, INC.
OCEAN SHIPS, INC. received $181.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−8.6% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.6B. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($181.2M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $181.2M
- New awards
- 6
- Sole-source
- 88%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- J3KFWB7L63U6
- Parent company
- OCEAN SHIPHOLDINGS, INC.
Company family
Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.
2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $166.2M in FY2026 together.
- OCEAN SHIPS, INC.HOUSTON, TX · Family page$181.2M
- OCEAN SHIPHOLDINGS, INC.HOUSTON, TX-$15M
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 85.3MFY2017
- 118.7MFY2018
- 292.1MFY2019
- 183.9MFY2020
- 100.1MFY2021
- 186MFY2022
- 181.5MFY2023
- 117.5MFY2024
- 198.2MFY2025
- 181.2MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of the Navy$181.2M100%6 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Transportation & logistics$181.2M100%
Where the work was performed
- Harris County, TX$181.2M100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition88%US 39% · $158.8M
- Sole-source awards88%US 30% · $158.8M
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.7% · $0
- Urgency justifications21%US 5.1% · $38.6M
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts
- Department of the Navy$158.8MDepartment of Defense · 2 awards
Largest awards
- Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Sep 30, 2024 – Mar 24, 2026· N3220524C4222
- Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2025 – May 29, 2026· N3220526C0501
- Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Nov 1, 2024 – Mar 24, 2026· N3220525C4127
- Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Apr 30, 2026 – May 28, 2026· N3220526C1237
- Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Apr 24, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026· N3220526C1224
- Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Nov 27, 2024 – Mar 2, 2026· N3220525C4009
Subawards
Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.
As a prime: who it pays · FY2026
No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.
As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026
No subawards reported to it in FY2026.
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.
Teaming partners
Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.
Companies it pays
4 companies · $606.4K reported
- VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation
- ND DEFENSE LLC$159.8KMADISON HEIGHTS, MI · 1 subaward · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation
- MARINE EXPRESS, INC.$39.9KPITTSBURG, CA · 1 subaward · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation
Primes that pay it
No prime reported paying it.
Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.
Competitors
Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.
Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- HORNBECK OFFSHORE OPERATORS LLC$343.8M−19% in FY2026COVINGTON, LA · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation
- PATRIOT CONTRACT SERVICES, LLC$1.1B−8.4% in FY2026CONCORD, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportationMaritime Administration · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation
- U.S. MARINE MANAGEMENT, LLC$842.6M−51% in FY2026NORFOLK, VA · 2 entities · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation
Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.
Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Lobbying and PAC activity
Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.
Across the company family of OCEAN SHIPS, INC. (2 recipients).
Matched organizations
- OCEAN SHIPHOLDINGS INCAI match · 100%
- PAC giving · 2022
- $1,000
- 1 PAC
PAC giving to candidates by party, 2022 cycle
- Republican$1,000100%
PACs sponsored
- OCEAN SHIPHOLDINGS INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$0 raised this cycle
PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.
Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.
Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.