Anthony Chance

Anthony Chance serves as a key procurement lead at the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize naval vessel readiness through industrial maintenance and repair services. He manages a portfolio of acquisitions focused exclusively on shipbuilding and repair operations, overseeing contracts for specialized vessel maintenance, industrial infrastructure upgrades, and critical engineering support systems. His role ensures the operational availability of fleet assets by aligning procurement strategy with naval engineering requirements, prioritizing timely delivery of mission-critical services that uphold fleet readiness standards. He maintains long-standing relationships with core contractors including W. V. Construction Company, Turn Key Scaffolding LLC, Premier Scaffolding, Inc., Fairbanks Morse, LLC, and The Sherwin-Williams Company, all of which provide specialized shipyard services such as structural repair, scaffolding systems, marine coatings, and propulsion equipment maintenance. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in naval industrial environments, and his contracting approach emphasizes performance reliability, compliance with naval specifications, and consistent adherence to safety and quality standards in high-risk maritime settings. Anthony demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of his acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to foster economic opportunity within the defense industrial base by directing contracts to qualified small businesses capable of delivering complex ship repair and maintenance services. His contracting patterns consistently prioritize small business eligibility, ensuring robust participation from firms with specialized capabilities in marine industrial support. His procurement focus is singularly centered on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—encompassing dry dock services, hull and machinery repairs, corrosion control, marine coating applications, and propulsion system overhauls. He specializes in acquiring technical services that require deep domain expertise in naval architecture, shipyard logistics, and regulatory compliance under Navy maintenance directives, ensuring all contracted work meets stringent military standards for durability and operational safety.