Millinocket Fabrication and Machine recently attended the Department of Defense Northeast Region Council’s matchmaking event in South Portland, organized by the offices of Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe and the Maine Procurement Technical Assistance Center.  More than 385 small-business people were part of the event.

The matchmaking event was part of a three-day conference. It featured roughly 100 officials from federal agencies and prime contractors that work on U.S. Government contracts — big companies such as General Dynamics, Burns & McDonnell Inc., Teradyne and Raytheon.  These companies are supposed to make good-faith effort to have percentages of work done by small business and Millinocket Fabrication and Machine would like to do more of this work.