Serious Manufacturing Solutions LLC

Serious Manufacturing Solutions LLC, doing business as Cardinal Machinery, supplies specialized machine tools and precision manufacturing equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards), operating from Memphis, Tennessee as a for-profit limited liability company. The vendor competes predominantly under small business set-asides, with recent work split between Total Small Business and full-and-open competitive awards.

Cardinal Machinery's footprint centers on machine tool procurement and delivery, grounded in NAICS codes spanning machine tool manufacturing (333517, 333515) and industrial machinery wholesaling. Recent capability work includes a $213,303 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command on August 18, 2025, for an Electrical Discharge Machine under Total Small Business set-aside, with completion by November 30, 2025; a $249,900 sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center on July 29, 2025, for a Mitsubishi MV4800-S machine tool destined for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Precision Machining Laboratory, completed by August 27, 2025; and earlier awards of milling machines, saws, filing machines, and bending and forming equipment to Army and Air Force customers. The vendor also subcontracts to Amentum Services, Inc. on aircraft backshop maintenance CNC feedback work (award date September 24, 2025).

Customer concentration splits between the Department of the Army (5 awards, $158 thousand combined potential value) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (four separate sub-offices carrying a combined $250 thousand potential value), accounting for 92% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Activity is sparse but accelerating—seventeen awards span from 1986 to 2025, with three awards placed in 2025 alone. The vendor sits on two Army Indefinite Delivery Contracts (DAAC7986C0037 and DAAC7986C0042), each carrying one task order. Combined potential value across all awards is $722 thousand, though obligated dollars total $1.2 million, indicating prior-year completion and repeat purchasing from established customers.