Pennsylvania Machine Works, LLC

Pennsylvania Machine Works, LLC, doing business as Penn Forged, manufactures high-pressure forged pipe fittings and specialized metal components for the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement calls, with substantial subcontract exposure to nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier construction programs.

Penn Forged is a for-profit limited liability company based in Aston, Pennsylvania, with no SBA set-aside certifications; the vendor competes in the open market and holds a $20 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with Naval Supply Systems Command (Federal Supply Class 4730, metal valves and pipe fittings) effective through August 2026. The company manufactures tees, reducers, couplings, elbows, flanges, and specialized assemblies from stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium, and copper-nickel alloys for naval maritime infrastructure, fleet maintenance, and submarine and surface ship operations. Work is performed at the vendor's Aston, Pennsylvania facility and in Portsmouth, Virginia, in proximity to major naval shipyard operations. NAICS exposure centers on Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (234 awards); top PSC framing is Hose, Pipe, Tube, Lubrication, and Railing Fittings (335 awards). Recent prime work includes a $20,563 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded June 2025) for a tee reducer and concentric reducer; a $12,135 purchase order for a reducing tee (July 2024); a $9,500 purchase order call against the NAVSUP BPA for reducing tees (December 2022); a $55,100 BPA call for flanges with necks set aside for Total Small Business (September 2021); and a $9,420 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for high-pressure forged pipe fittings (March 2026).

Customer concentration sits entirely with the Department of the Navy—Naval Supply Systems Command holds 258 of 435 total awards ($21.6 million combined potential value), and Naval Sea Systems Command holds 132 awards ($181 thousand). The remaining customer activity comes from United States Pacific Fleet Forces (4 awards, $11 thousand) and Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (1 award, $5 thousand). Award count and dollar value rank diverge slightly; NAVSUP dominates both metrics while NAVSEA places significantly more orders at lower per-order value, reflecting the vendor's seat on the NAVSUP blanket purchase agreement and transactional order patterns across both commands.

Penn Forged holds one named vehicle position: the $20 million Naval Supply Systems Command Blanket Purchase Agreement N0010421AYH01 (one task order tracked, $55 thousand potential value), effective August 2021 through August 2026. Recent activity shows growth through 2024 (61 awards) followed by significant contraction in 2025 (8 awards) and one award to date in 2026. Combined potential value across all awards is $21.8 million against which $6.9 million has been obligated (32% realization rate).

Subcontract exposure centers on two defense primes: Electric Boat Corporation (nuclear submarine construction, including SSN 804, SSN 814, SSN 815, and SSBN 826 programs with recurring changes and modifications through September 2025) and Huntington Ingalls Inc. (aircraft carrier programs CVN 80 and CVN 81, with detailed design and construction work including steel flanges, weldolets, and pipe assemblies through September 2025). Penn Forged supplies forged pipe fittings, flanges, tees, unions, and specialty assemblies to both primes in support of submarine and surface ship construction and modernization efforts. The sub awards represent recurring engineering changes and material calls rather than discrete fixed-price task orders, reflecting the vendor's embedded role in major shipbuilding programs.

Prime awards split 80% of total volume (347 awards) against 20% subcontract work (88 awards), demonstrating the vendor's primary footprint as a Navy supplier through direct purchase orders and BPA calls rather than as a subordinate sub. No set-aside category recurs across the prime or sub footprint; all named awards carry no set-aside or Total Small Business designation (the latter applied only to select NAVSUP BPA calls, not a corporate SBA certification).