Norman Machine Tool LTD

Norman Machine Tool LTD, a Baltimore-based small business, supplies specialized precision manufacturing equipment—hydraulic shears, vertical band saws, press brakes with CNC controls, cold saws, and ironworkers—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of its recent awards, predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. The company operates as a for-profit corporate entity and has maintained an active federal contracting footprint since at least 2002, with 177 total awards (including 174 primes and 3 subs) across five decades of activity.

The vendor's customer base is fragmented across 54 distinct federal agencies, with no single customer dominating the pipeline. The top five customers by award count—the Defense Logistics Agency (17 awards), the U.S. Coast Guard (16 awards, $545 thousand combined potential value), and the Naval Sea Systems Command (15 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value)—account for 37% of recent awards. When ranked by potential value, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the top position with two awards worth $1.6 million combined, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command ($1.1 million across 15 awards) and the Coast Guard ($545 thousand). This divergence signals that Norman Machine Tool LTD places many smaller orders with logistics and operational commands but generates higher unit values through GSA and Navy channels. Recent representative work includes a $221.8 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order (April 2026, small business set-aside) for a Hydraulic Shear Machine with installation and training delivered to Portsmouth, Virginia; a $242.3 thousand Army Research Development and Engineering Command small business set-aside for a CNC press brake with specialized tooling and software (September 2023); and a $68 thousand Coast Guard small business set-aside for a metal cutting band saw (April 2024).

Norman Machine Tool LTD places task orders on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (12 orders, $486 thousand combined potential value) and holds seats on several single-award or limited-competition indefinite delivery contracts with the Navy and Army. The award portfolio is concentrated in machine tool sales: the top five NAICS categories spanning Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing (25 awards), Machine Tool Metal Cutting Types Manufacturing (15 awards), and related fabrication categories; the top five PSCs span Saws and Filing Machines (29 awards), Punching and Shearing Machines (15 awards), and Bending and Forming Machines (14 awards).

Activity has remained flat to modest—three awards per year in 2022–2023, rising to four in 2025—with only one award (combined potential value $222 thousand) facing completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor serves as a subcontractor to Pantexas Deterrence LLC on Pantex Plant capital equipment (January 2025), to Caci Technologies LLC on counter-proliferation and global operational support hardware (January 2025), and to J.F. Taylor Inc. on milling and shearing equipment (November 2023). Combined obligated dollars exceed combined potential value by 23%, indicating the portfolio includes several completed or overrun contracts. Norman Machine Tool LTD competes almost entirely under Total Small Business set-asides on firm fixed-price purchase orders for equipment delivery with no major subcontractors involved.