Starbase Louisiana supplier registry

A public list of Louisiana businesses that can do work at Pecan Island, and what to have in place before a buyer looks you up. Free to be listed.

Checked 29 August 2026

If a spaceport gets built at Pecan Island, the firms that win work there will mostly be firms that were already trading in Louisiana. This page is how you make sure a buyer can find yours, and what to have in place before they look.

SpaceX and the State of Louisiana announced Starbase Louisiana on 25 August 2026: roughly 125,000 acres at Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, construction slated for 2027. What it actually means for a business here is a separate read. This page is the practical half.

Starbase Louisiana at a glance

• Announced. 25 August 2026.
• Where. Pecan Island, Vermilion Parish.
• Site. About 125,000 acres.
• Construction. Slated for 2027.
• First launch. Targeted 2029.
• Built so far. Nothing.

The full list of what was announced, and the sources for it, is on the Starbase Louisiana page.

What this registry is

A public list of Louisiana businesses that can do work at or near Pecan Island, with the things a buyer checks before they call: what you do, where you are, whether your registration is current, and how to reach you.

It runs on the Bizer business directory, which is built from Louisiana Secretary of State records. A listing is a real page at a real address, readable by a person and by the AI assistants buyers increasingly use to shortlist. Claiming yours is free.

Where this stands today

The registry is being built, and it is close to empty. Saying otherwise would waste your time and a buyer's. The directory is seeded from Louisiana Secretary of State records parish by parish, and the Vermilion and Acadiana pass is the one being worked on now.

What that means practically is that being early is the advantage. A claimed, complete listing outranks an empty one, and right now almost nothing is claimed. Find your business and claim it.

The work a build like this buys

Nothing has been tendered and no scope has been published, so this is not a list of awarded packages. It is the ordinary shape of industrial construction on the Gulf Coast, which is what a 125,000 acre site in a marsh will need before it needs anything exotic.

• Site work and earthmoving. Clearing, fill, access roads, levee and drainage work in marsh conditions.
• Marine and barge. Barge transport, dock and bulkhead work, dredging support, crew boats.
• Welding and fabrication. Structural steel, pipe, pressure work, on site repair.
• Cranes and rigging. Lifts, heavy haul, specialized transport permits.
• Electrical and instrumentation. Industrial power, controls, high voltage, cable.
• Trucking and logistics. Aggregate, equipment, fuel, oversize loads, yard space.
• Environmental and survey. Wetland delineation, permitting support, boundary and topographic survey.
• Industrial services. Scaffolding, insulation, coatings, hydroblasting, waste handling.
• Camp, catering and lodging. Feeding and housing a workforce in a parish with almost no rooms.
• Security and traffic. Site security, gate control, flagging, escort.
• Safety and medical. Safety staffing, training, on site medical, drug testing.
• Fuel, water and rentals. Bulk fuel, potable and non potable water, equipment and trailer rental.

When each of these gets bought is the other half of the question, and the estimated development timeline lays out the phases and which trades land in each one.

The point of the list is narrower than it looks. If your trade is on it, a buyer sourcing this project will eventually search for it, and what they find is whatever is published about you. That is the thing worth fixing this year.

Being contract ready

This is worth doing whether or not a single rocket is ever launched at Pecan Island. It is the same paperwork that wins state work, federal work, and any job where a general contractor has to justify the choice.

1. A company in good standing. Registered with the Secretary of State, annual report filed, registered agent current. A lapsed charter is the first thing a procurement check finds. The start a business guide covers how to register and what it costs.
2. Your contractor license, at the right classification. Louisiana requires a State Licensing Board for Contractors license above the statutory thresholds, and the classification has to match the work. The board's public search is where a buyer will verify you.
3. Insurance a general contractor will accept. General liability, auto, workers compensation, and for marine scopes the coverage that shore policies exclude. Ask for the certificate wording before you bid, not after you win.
4. SAM.gov registration. Free, and the prerequisite for any federal contracting. It takes longer than people expect, which is the argument for starting before you need it.
5. Hudson Initiative or Veteran Initiative certification. Louisiana's small and veteran owned business certifications. They matter on state work and on the state funded portions of large projects.
6. A capability statement. One page: what you do, what you have done, your licenses and coverage, your capacity, and who to call. Buyers ask for it by name and most small firms do not have one.

Where the parish line bites. Sales tax in Louisiana follows the job site, not your office, so work at Pecan Island is taxed at the Vermilion Parish jurisdiction rate whatever parish you are based in. Price it before you quote, not after. The sales tax rates by parish list every jurisdiction, and the grow a business guide covers what changes when you work across parish lines.

How to get listed

Search the directory for your business name. Most Louisiana companies already have an unclaimed page built from public records, and claiming it is free.

• If you find your business. Claim the listing and fill in what the public record does not carry: what you actually do, your classifications, your service area, and how to reach you.
• If you do not find it. Add it. Point it at your website, someone at Bizer reviews it and builds the page from what is already published about you, and then it is yours to claim.

If you are sourcing suppliers

Be told the true state of it: this registry cannot yet answer "who can weld near Pecan Island." Nobody's can, which is why it is being built.

What exists today that is genuinely useful: the State Licensing Board for Contractors runs a public search by name, parish, classification and license status, and it holds the state's commercial and residential contractors. The Secretary of State's commercial search verifies that a company is real and in good standing. Those two answer most of what a first pass needs.

What this registry adds as it fills is the part those two cannot: what a firm actually does in its own words, whether it is still trading, and a way to reach it that does not depend on a phone number filed years ago.

What is not true yet

Worth stating plainly, because a page like this attracts optimism.

• Nothing is built. A 2027 construction start and a 2029 launch target is a plan, and plans this size move. Getting qualified is cheap and useful either way. Signing a lease on the strength of a press release is neither.
• No scope has been published. No packages have been tendered, there is no bid list and no package breakdown, and no prime contractor has been named. There is no supplier portal.
• Nobody can sell you a way in. Anyone telling you they can register you with SpaceX for a fee is selling you something that does not exist.
• This registry is not affiliated with SpaceX. Bizer is an independent company. Being listed here is not a qualification, not an endorsement, and not a route to a contract. It is a way to be findable.

Not sure whether you would qualify?

Describe your business and what you do, and Miles will tell you what is missing before a buyer would shortlist you.