Women In Manufacturing Association

Women In Manufacturing Association, a non-profit organization, operates exclusively as a subcontractor to federal primes delivering employer outreach, recruitment, and apprenticeship-expansion services in the advanced manufacturing and agriculture sectors. The organization has received three federal sub-contract awards totaling $383 thousand, all issued to the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration through Jobs For The Future Inc. as prime contractor, and all centered on registered apprenticeship program (RAP) expansion and the recruitment and retention of women in apprenticeships.

The organization's footprint is concentrated and narrow. All three awards funnel through a single prime contractor (Jobs For The Future Inc.) and a single federal customer (DOL Employment and Training Administration), representing 100% of recent award count. The awards span option periods of a multi-year registered apprenticeship expansion vehicle: Women In Manufacturing provided employer outreach and recruitment services under Option Year 2 deliverables in November 2022, expanded that scope in December 2023, and exercised Option Period Four in October 2024. The sub-contract work calls for staff classified as Marketing Specialist and Analyst labor categories focused on increasing registered apprenticeship participation and representation of underrepresented populations in advanced manufacturing and agriculture apprenticeships.

From a Service Contract Inventory perspective, the organization reported minimal federal services activity: 0.4 FTEs invoiced in both FY2022 and FY2024 as a named subcontractor, with no record of prime service-contract activity above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold. SCI captures only a bounded slice of the organization's work — contracts above $150,000 and federal services only — and does not reflect the full scope of the sub-award structure or any non-federal revenue.

Women In Manufacturing operates as a feeder subcontractor to a single prime in a single DOL apprenticeship program vehicle, with no direct prime contracting relationship, no seat on government-wide vehicles, and no diversified customer base. The organization's federal footprint is dependent on Jobs For The Future's continued prime vehicle authority and DOL's continued funding of registered apprenticeship expansion in advanced manufacturing.