Mooring Supply Chain

Pearl Harbor's two-buoy order now has a visible subcontract chain

Published 5 August 2026 Publisher IMWO Region North America Confidence Confirmed
NAVFAC Hawaii personnel conduct a fleet mooring riser chain inspection at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during a separate 2013 maintenance programme

Steel Worker 2nd Class Metro Sayre / U.S. Navy via DVIDS, public domain; separate Pearl Harbor context, not Wharf V5 progress evidence

Oceanetics Inc. holds U.S. Navy delivery order N3943025F0149 to install two mooring buoys at Wharf V5, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. USAspending reports USD 1,377,977 through 11 September 2026 and identifies two subawards: USD 746,755.50 to Healy Tibbitts Builders for a project charter agreement and USD 124,112 to Marine Fenders International for an Ocean Guard mooring buoy. These records expose part of the delivery chain, but not field installation or acceptance.

Two subawards turn a prime-only record into a package map

USAspending controls the prime and subaward identities, dates, values and descriptions. The Navy objective explicitly places the package at Wharf V5 in Pearl Harbor; a conflicting Annapolis place field is treated as metadata noise. Oceanetics, Marine Fenders and Healy Tibbitts pages establish capabilities only. No cited source confirms mobilisation, buoy delivery acceptance, anchor placement, installation, testing, handover or operational use. The image shows a separate 2013 Pearl Harbor fleet-mooring inspection and is contextual, not current Wharf V5 evidence.

Named firms are only the first layer

A prime award alone says who owns delivery. The two subawards begin to show how that obligation is being assembled: charter support and buoy supply. Their exact descriptions are commercially specific but narrow. A charter agreement is not proof that Healy Tibbitts owns installation, and an Ocean Guard line item does not reveal model, geometry, working load, fittings, testing or accepted quantity.

Evidence conclusion

Installation, testing and acceptance remain unconfirmed

The engineering and execution chain remains materially open. Anchor blocks, chain and ground tackle, mooring analysis, survey, lifting, diving, positioning, temporary navigation controls, inspection, load verification and Navy acceptance are not allocated in published task-order or subaward data. Company capability pages do not assign those project-specific roles. A status advance requires dated mobilisation, delivery, installation, test or acceptance evidence.

Outstanding evidence

  • Oceanetics mobilisation and installation spread
  • Healy Tibbitts chartered vessel and exact support scope
  • Marine Fenders buoy model, fittings and accepted delivery
  • Ground tackle, survey, lift, dive and positioning packages
  • Testing, Navy acceptance and first operational vessel use

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