Every job in a shop travels with a traveler, the sheet that gets signed off at each step. Here's ours, and who signs each line.
We find the job, from a federal buyer or an American manufacturer, and send you the drawing, the material, the quantity and the due date.
Put a price on it, or pass. Passing costs you nothing, and no other shop ever sees your number.
We bid with your price plus our margin, and only when you've quoted. The number you gave us is the number you get.
When we win, you get a purchase order with every requirement from the customer's contract written in, before you accept it.
Run the job in your own shop, to the drawing and the one-page standard, on the date you agreed to.
We check the paperwork on every order and inspect the first lot of every new part before anything ships.
You pack to the marking and packaging rules we send with the order. We handle the shipping records and invoice the customer.
When the customer pays us, we pay you. That's the whole deal.
Days from delivery to payment, drawn to the same scale.
DFARS 232.906 sets the Defense Department's 15-day goal for small businesses. Boeing sought 90 to 120 day terms from its suppliers in 2016. We pay you when the customer pays us.
Same traveler, same standard. The paperwork around it is different.
