Gulfstream Recognizes Small-Business Suppliers

Gulfstream Aerospace yesterday recognized four small businesses for their outstanding performance as suppliers to the company during the 2006 calendar year. The ceremony was held at Gulfstream’s Ninth Annual Corporation Supplier Conference, held recently in Savannah, and which helps the company manage the $252 million in goods and services it purchased from U.S. small businesses. In 2006, our small businesses improved delivery performance and maintained competitive pricing with their innovativeness and quick response to our challenging production demands, said Jim McQueeney, vice president, material, Gulfstream. Gulfstream purchases a variety of products from small businesses, including machined parts, maintenance repair overhaul items, adhesives/sealants, electronic components and raw materials. In addition, Gulfstream receives numerous services from small businesses, including cabinetry assembly, plastic fabrication, construction, engineering, nondestructive testing, employment, plating, coating, equipment leasing and printing.

Gulfstream Aerospace yesterday recognized four small businesses for their outstanding performance as suppliers to the company during the 2006 calendar year. The ceremony was held at Gulfstream's Ninth Annual Corporation Supplier Conference, held recently in Savannah, and which helps the company manage the $252 million in goods and services it purchased from U.S. small businesses. In 2006, our small businesses improved delivery performance and maintained competitive pricing with their innovativeness and quick response to our challenging production demands, said Jim McQueeney, vice president, material, Gulfstream. Gulfstream purchases a variety of products from small businesses, including machined parts, maintenance repair overhaul items, adhesives/sealants, electronic components and raw materials. In addition, Gulfstream receives numerous services from small businesses, including cabinetry assembly, plastic fabrication, construction, engineering, nondestructive testing, employment, plating, coating, equipment leasing and printing.

In selecting new suppliers, Gulfstream provides opportunities to small, women-owned, disadvantaged, veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran, and historically underutilized business zone businesses. For these and other suppliers, Gulfstream provides assistance through technical support, quality assurance, engineering, networking contacts/referrals, and by purchasing equipment and raw materials. Recognized at its recent supplier conference were:

  • 2006 Minority Small Business of the Year: Goodwill Industries of the Coastal Empire, of Savannah, is a non-profit agency that provides people with disabilities the opportunity to lead productive and independent lives. Goodwill creates and assembles more than 200 different insulation blankets for Gulfstream.
  • 2006 Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year: Sey Tec, of Hurst, Texas, is a fastener and hardware distributor for the aviation and military industries. Sey Tec provides Gulfstream with a variety of fixtures and hardware.
  • 2006 Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year: Click Bond Inc., of Carson City, Nev., provides innovative structural assembly solutions for aerospace, transportation, naval and industrial markets. Click Bond provides Gulfstream with a variety of adhesive-bonded fasteners used in the initial and final phases of aircraft production.
  • 2006 Small Business of the Year: Custom Metal Works, of Rincon, Ga., provides Gulfstream with non-structural interior sheet metal detail parts and sub-assemblies used in the final phase of production.