811210: Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance

What this code covers

NAICS 811210 covers repairing and maintaining electronic and precision equipment without selling new units at retail: consumer electronics, computers and office machines, communications equipment, and other electronic and precision equipment such as scientific and medical instruments. The Census index for the code also lists radar and sonar equipment repair. It is a service code, not a manufacturing code.

Defense repair demand is broad: test sets and meters, radios and data link equipment, displays and consoles, power supplies, circuit card assemblies, night vision and electro-optical devices, and shipboard electronics. NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support, the Army communications and electronics buyers at Tobyhanna, the Air Force Sustainment Center and the Coast Guard place repair contracts here.

What federal buyers typically ask for

Repair is performed to a technical manual or a depot maintenance work requirement, and the buyer expects you to have or obtain that data. Test equipment repair adds calibration to an accredited laboratory standard with traceable standards. ISO 9001 is the usual floor, AS9100 when the item is airborne, and ESD control throughout. Replacement parts fall under the DFARS counterfeit electronic part clause.

Many repair items require repair source approval, which mirrors the manufacturing source approval process. Weapon system electronics are ITAR controlled, and contracts with controlled unclassified information carry CMMC. Contracts typically cover teardown and evaluation followed by a firm price repair, handling and return of government-furnished property, a repair turnaround time, and a warranty on the work.

Repair contracts are frequently small business set-asides, often as indefinite delivery contracts or basic ordering agreements with a schedule of items and prices. Repair of a manufacturer's proprietary unit tends to go sole source until a second source is approved.