SOLICITATION-U.S. Army United States Military Academy (USMA), Cadet Issued Breast and Waist Plates

What the government is buying

Department of the Army (W6QM Micc-West Point) has posted a solicitation notice on SAM.gov for SOLICITATION-U.S. Army United States Military Academy (USMA), Cadet Issued Breast and Waist Plates under solicitation number W911SD-27-Q-A009. Responses are due November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM EST. The notice lists a set-aside of Total Small Business.

From the notice: The Mission and Installation Contracting Command Installation Contracting Office, West Point, NY (MICC-West Point) is issuing this SOLICITATION Breast & Waist Plates (FINAL COPY IN QUEUE) at West Point, NY. The estimated delivery will be for March 2027 (est). This requirement will be a 100% set aside for total Small Business concerns. The NAICS code 332313 - Plate Work Manufacturing, size standard is 750 Employees. Please verify that both the UEI #, CAGE Code, and System for Award Management (SAM) profile are current and valid in SAM. Offerors are reminded to carefully review all attached solicitation documents issued as criteria is stated in the solicitation and shall govern. The solicitation ...

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 3- and 4-axis horizontal milling on Mazak HMCs with pallet changers, which lets several faces be machined in one clamping and holds feature-to-feature position. 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 W911SD-27-Q-A009, 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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