Cfmw, LLC

Cfmw, LLC, doing business as Columbia Forge & Machine Works, manufactures precision-engineered marine hardware — buoy shackles, buoy swivels, and split-key shackle assemblies — for the federal government as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The company is a women-owned, small-disadvantaged-business Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Washougal, Washington, with operations in Portland, Oregon, competing under both set-aside and non-set-aside vehicles.

Cfmw's customer footprint is nearly monolithic: the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard accounts for 42 of 100 awards (73% of awards by count) carrying $31.6 million in combined potential value across 84% of the vendor's total portfolio value. The remaining customer base is fragmented across Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (19 awards, $207 thousand), the Department of Transportation Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (2 awards, $51 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (1 award, $26 thousand), and smaller Defense Logistics Agency sub-offices. This concentration reflects Cfmw's specialization in Coast Guard Aids to Navigation program support, where the company supplies mission-critical hardware components for buoy mooring and maritime infrastructure.

Cfmw holds two Coast Guard single-award IDCs as its primary vehicle base. A $4.3 million buoy-swivel IDC awarded February 2, 2024, with total small business set-aside designation runs through February 1, 2029, with three delivery orders issued between July 2024 and February 2026 totaling $532 thousand. A $5.7 million shackles-and-marine-hardware IDC awarded August 22, 2023, with no set-aside designation expires August 21, 2026, having generated approximately $1.78 million in delivery orders. Beyond the Coast Guard IDCs, Cfmw holds five additional parent vehicles under Defense Logistics Agency with combined task order volume of 47 orders worth $13.1 million, though the source does not detail the dollar magnitude or commodity scope of individual DLA vehicle usage patterns.

Representative recent work includes a $927,900 delivery order from Coast Guard for buoy shackles (February 27, 2024), a $1.4 million delivery order for buoy shackles (September 8, 2023), a $873,500 delivery order for buoy shackles (July 18, 2024), and a $99,374 delivery order for steel shackles to the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation program issued September 25, 2026. Cfmw also supplies the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation with buoy bridles, swivels, and split-key shackle assemblies for Coast Guard floating aids to navigation; a $29,287 purchase order was awarded September 16, 2024, under total small business set-aside.

Award activity has grown modestly from one award in 2022 to six in 2025 and 2026. Four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $856 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure. Cfmw operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The vendor's NAICS profile concentrates on Iron and Steel Forging (55 awards) and Hardware Manufacturing (20 awards), with PSC codes anchored to Fittings For Rope, Cable, And Chain (48 awards) and Marine Hardware And Hull Items (36 awards).