Appleton Cylinder

What the government is buying

U.S. Coast Guard (Sflc Procurement Branch 2(00085)) has posted a solicitation notice on SAM.gov for Appleton Cylinder under solicitation number 70Z08526Q40200B00. Responses are due July 26, 2027, 1:00 PM EDT. The notice lists a set-aside of Total Small Business.

From the notice: This is a Brand Name Only solicitation. No substitutions will be authorized. Interested vendors must be an authorized distributor for the requested material and are required to provide an authorized distributor letter from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) with their quotation. For all inquiries FOR EQUIPMENT AND PACKAGING, please contact: POC: BRADY MYERS E-MAIL: BRADY.A.MYERS@USCG.MIL 571-613-3388 Line Item Details LINE ITEM 1 NSN: 3040 01-F12-2745 [5340 01-126-4569] DESCRIPTION: APPLETON JIB CYLINDER [STRAP, RETAINING] MFG NAME: APPLETON MARINE INC [EVOQUA WATER TECHNOLOGIES CORP.] PART NBR: YMD-9526 [37073B] ALT PART # W3T105142 QUANTITY: 03 [14] EA UNIT PRICE: $____________________ LINE ITEM 2 NSN: [3040 01-F12-2743 ] DESCRIPTION: [LUFF CYLINDER] MFG NAME: APPLETON ...

This page summarizes the public notice only. The complete solicitation, amendments, and attachments are posted on SAM.gov, and offerors should price from the full package.

How Wexmar would machine this

Based on the notice title and classification, Wexmar would plan this work around CNC turning on Mazak and Doosan lathes with live tooling, so diameters, bores, threads, cross holes, and flats are finished in one or two setups. Every lot is inspected against the drawing on Brown & Sharpe CMMs.

Equipment on the floor

• Turning: 10 Mazak and Doosan CNC lathes with live tooling
• Horizontal milling: 6 Mazak horizontal machining centers, 3- and 4-axis, with pallet changers
• Swiss: 4 Maier Swiss-type lathes, bar capacity to 32 mm
• Grinding: centerless and surface grinding
• Inspection: 2 Brown & Sharpe coordinate measuring machines

Materials

Material is set by the drawing. Wexmar machines carbon and alloy steels, stainless steels including precipitation-hardening grades, Inconel, Monel, Hastelloy, aluminum, brass, bronze, titanium, and engineering plastics, and buys bar and plate with mill certifications. Where DFARS 252.225-7009 applies, specialty metals are sourced from qualifying melt sources and the certifications travel with the parts.

Finishing and heat treatment

If the drawing calls for plating, anodizing, passivation, or heat treatment, Wexmar manages those steps through qualified outside processors and includes their certifications in the lot paperwork.

Documentation and registration

• First article inspection reports and CMM dimensional reports
• Material certifications traceable to heat lot, and certificates of conformance
• DFARS 252.225-7009 specialty metals sourcing
• ISO 9001-aligned quality system
• SAM.gov active, CAGE 16AD7, small business, woman-owned small business (WOSB)

Working with a prime or distributor

If your company is responding to 70Z08526Q40200B00, Wexmar can price the machined content against the drawing revision and quantities in the notice, quote first article and production lots as separate lines when the notice separates them, and ship to you or directly to the government destination.

Send us the files

We can build this. Send us the files. Primes, integrators, and buyers: send the drawing package and quantity and Wexmar will quote it as your subcontractor or direct supplier. Upload a PDF or STEP for an instant estimate, email ron@backwell.com, or call (315) 400-2654.

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