General Machine Shop, Inc.

General Machine Shop, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Landover, Maryland, provides precision rigging services, equipment relocation, machinery removal, and laboratory facility reconfiguration to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly in open competition and small-business set-asides rather than restricted vehicles.

General Machine Shop's customer concentration is extreme and stable. The Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing accounts for 24 awards and $5.6 million in combined potential value across the vendor's portfolio — 78% of all dollars and 33% of all awards. This concentration reflects General Machine Shop's specialized capability in currency-production facility support: the BEP relies on the vendor for rigging, equipment relocation, dismantling, and repositioning of specialized currency-printing machinery across the BEP's Washington, DC and Landover, Maryland operations. The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology ranks second at 12 awards and $132 thousand in combined potential value. Beyond these two anchors, activity disperses across 16 customer agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Recent capability examples include a $163,900 total-small-business BPA call from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for rigging services (September 2026), a $39,875 purchase order from the National Institutes of Health's Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations for laboratory equipment relocation and rigging (September 2026), and a $22,680 purchase order from the Office of Naval Research for TMC optical table vibration isolation installation at the Naval Research Laboratory (October 2024).

General Machine Shop holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BPA 2031ZA26A00010), awarded May 4, 2026, with a $1,966,986 ceiling and an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2031. The BPA covers rigging services including equipment relocation, machinery removal, dismantling, and repositioning of specialized equipment across BEP facilities in the DC and Landover areas. The vendor also operates under multiple other BPAs with the BEP, which have generated the majority of task orders. Work spans NAICS categories centered on Other Building Equipment Contractors (30 awards) and Machine Shops (5 awards), with PSC codes anchored in Rigging and Rigging Gear (10 awards) and Salvage—Preparation and Disposal of Excess/Surplus Property (9 awards).

Award activity has been sporadic — seven awards in 2021, one in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, and three in 2026 — with a combined potential value across all 72 recent awards of $7.2 million and obligated spend of $4.2 million. Only two awards carrying $204 thousand in combined potential value face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. The vendor subcontracts minimally: one recent sub-award appears under the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on a Dragonfly Extended Phase B mission (September 2024) for aerospace research and development support services.