Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center

Peoria, IL Doing business as Imec

UEI
KLS2DPG83BR8
CAGE
4TDA7
Primary NAICS
541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
SAM.gov registration
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Company facts

Self-certified in SAM.gov
  • Non-Profit Organization
Entity structure
Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
SAM.gov registration date
Physical address
1501 W Bradley Ave, Peoria, IL 61606, USA
Website
imec.org
Founded
1996
Employees
51-250
Estimated annual revenue
$10M-$50M
Industry
  1. Industrials
  2. Commercial & Professional Services
  3. Professional Services
  4. Consulting
SIC code
87 Engineering & Management Services

Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .

Grant awards

Award Agency Obligated Awarded
Strengthen illinois' manufacturing and workforce competitiveness by improving productivity, accelerating technology… 70NANB26H014 National Institute of Standards and Technology $11,622,598
Provide services to expand existing MEP capabilities to provide national supply chain optimization and to establish a… 70NANB23H049 National Institute of Standards and Technology $400,000
Illinois manufacturing excellence center (imec) 70NANB21H010 National Institute of Standards and Technology $79,517,943
Manufacturing support during covid recovery 70NANB20H039 National Institute of Standards and Technology $2,200,000
High growth HG301321760A17 Employment and Training Administration $3,743,342

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Grant subawards

Prime recipient Prime award Amount Awarded
Illinois Department Commerce & Economic Opportunity The US Dept of Labor (USDOL) federal funding is being used to serve, expand and strategically improve the national apprenticeship system. 25A60AP000143 $350,000

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About the company

Written by GovTribe AI ·

Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center, doing business as Imec, is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, that serves as a federal grant recipient delivering technical assistance, supply chain optimization, and workforce development services to small and medium-sized manufacturers across Illinois under the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program (CFDA 11.611). Imec operates as a prime grantee in 93% of its recent federal footprint and functions as a subrecipient in approximately 7%.

Imec's primary capability portfolio centers on tailored technical assistance for manufacturing competitiveness and modernization. Core service lines include technology adoption acceleration, artificial intelligence and digital tools implementation, cybersecurity enhancements, workforce upskilling, and supply chain optimization spanning semiconductors, automotive, aerospace, and metal casting and forging. The vendor conducts supplier scouting, capability assessments, and supplier matchmaking activities to strengthen domestic supply chain resiliency, with outcomes tracked through Salesforce dashboards and aligned to NIST MEP performance metrics such as documented client impacts including new and retained sales, cost savings, jobs created and retained, and capital investment.

Imec's federal customer base is concentrated almost entirely within the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, which funds 11 of 15 total awards in the source data. The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and Occupational Safety and Health Administration round out the active set with two awards each. The largest recent award is an $11.62 million Cooperative Agreement from NIST effective March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2031, under which Imec will serve as Illinois' MEP Center with four Illinois universities as subrecipients contributing applied research, faculty expertise, and student engagement. A prior $400,000 NIST MEP Cooperative Agreement ran from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2025, focused on supply chain optimization. Imec also received a Department of Labor sub-award as of September 30, 2025 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity supporting apprenticeship system expansion. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $250 million across a fifteen-award history spanning from 2005 to the present, with sparse annual volume — one award in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025, and 2026 respectively.

Quick answers

Is Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center registered in SAM.gov?

Yes. Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center's SAM.gov registration is active through October 15, 2027.

What is Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center's most recent federal award?

Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center's most recent federal grant award is Strengthen illinois' manufacturing and workforce competitiveness by improving productivity, accelerating technology… (70NANB26H014), from National Institute of Standards and Technology, on March 1, 2026.

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