The process everyone needs and nobody codes consistently
Coating, plating, heat treating, seals, castings, forgings, tooling, plastics. Your work shows up inside other people's parts as often as on its own. The product finds both.
NAICS 332813 in numbers
Obligated by fiscal year
Who buys
Who won
Where the work is done
Award size bands (count)
Set-aside mix (count)
Direct awards, and the shops that win the parts
Direct awards in your code (anodizing, plating, heat treating, gasket and seal manufacturing, foundry and forge work, tooling, plastics) tend to be depot and warfare center work with specifications attached. Far more of your business hides inside machined and fabricated awards won by other shops: the bracket that needs chem film, the housing that needs stress relief, the assembly that needs an O-ring.
Watch your own code for the first kind. Use the supplier directory and incumbent profiles for the second: the machine shops near you that keep winning aircraft-part awards are the customers you should already know.
- Work-type tags for coatings, heat treat, seals, castings, tooling, plastics across every code
- Keyword watches for your process names
- Local supplier directory for the shops that need you
Specifications you will see
Notices in these codes lean on specifications and qualified processes: military and industry specs for plating and coating, aerospace process approvals, first article requirements, certifications of conformance and traceability. The brief calls out the ones the notice names. The quality systems guide explains what buyers expect from a small process house.
Codes on this site
Guides for you
- SAM registrationStart to finish.
- Choosing NAICS codesPrimary and secondary.
- DLA DIBBSWhere most small shops win first.
- The first 90 daysA week-by-week plan.
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