Defense equipment supply and federal program consulting.
Northmark Enterprises LLC is a service-disabled veteran-owned firm in Bozeman, Montana. It quotes small arms, ammunition, optics and individual equipment to federal buyers as a licensed dealer, and it delivers architecture, program and governance work on federal and state technology programs. Both run under one SAM registration, and Jeff Kimble, who founded the firm, is accountable for each.
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- SDVOSB and VOSB, SBA VetCert certified
- SAM registration
- Active through 2027-06-25
- Licences
- ATF FFL Type 07 · SOT Class 2
Capabilities
Two lines of business, and the case where a buyer needs both.
Each line is quoted, scoped and awarded on its own. A buyer who needs one of them is not asked to care about the other.
Defense products and equipment
Small arms, ammunition, optics, protective and individual equipment, through an authorized dealer network across multiple national distributors. Sources verified with a date and a quantity at quote, and again while the award pends.
What we quote → 02Technology and program consulting
Modernizing a system a program has outgrown, getting AI and analytics into a state a reviewer can audit, program and acquisition support, and the governance that keeps both accountable.
The four services → 03Both, on one requirement
Supply the equipment and stand up the program that receives it — the property, training and sustainment records that have to exist somewhere other than a spreadsheet. Separate line items, separate pricing, one accountable firm.
How that is scoped →Experience
Programs where the work has already been done.
Federal, state health, emergency response and regulated commercial delivery. These engagements were performed by our founder before Northmark was formed, at the firms named on each line.
U.S. Department of State
Solution architect with delivery oversight on the Grant Management Application, the system that disbursed grant money, at Secret scope. At Guidehouse.
California Dept. of Health Care Services
Technology and AI governance operating model for an agency serving more than 13 million Medi-Cal beneficiaries. At Guidehouse.
Grant platform productisation
A single-jurisdiction build turned into a multi-jurisdiction platform; implementation time fell from 18 months to 6. At Guidehouse.
Colorado Office of Emergency Services
PPE order management during the COVID-19 response, under a declared state emergency — from a standing backlog to twice-daily fulfilment in under two weeks.
Global medical device manufacturer
One HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant platform consolidating 37 country-specific systems, with audit logging built for regulatory audit. At NeuraFlash.
Texas Health and Human Services
Medicaid process work under state health compliance, early career.
How we work
Small enough that the person you evaluate is the person you get.
No handoff after award
At the size of award we bid, there is nothing between the architect named in a response and the architect who arrives. The name on the proposal is the name on the program.
Gaps named before the proposal
The parts of a requirement we cannot perform, or an item we cannot source, are written down and handed over before anything is proposed. It is a shorter conversation than finding out in month three.
Mechanisms, not adjectives
Every claim about how a system behaves is tied to a check that runs, a log that is written, or a gate that fails the run. Every claim about stock is tied to a source, a quantity and a date.
Insights
Methods, written up in full.
Each one is the method underneath a claim made elsewhere on this site, written from work that was done rather than work that was imagined.
The deterministic layer around a model call
Six gates that decide what a language model is allowed to do, and what happens when it is unsure.
Read the guide →A governance operating model at charter level
The six questions a committee charter has to answer before the committee meets once.
Read the guide →Finding the requirement when the notice does not contain it
49 of 291 federal notices state the requirement nowhere in the notice text. Where it actually lives, and how to get at it.
Read the guide →Contracting
Everything a contracting officer needs, on one page.
Northmark holds no contract vehicle. A program office can still put us on contract three ways: an open-market award under simplified acquisition procedures, an agency blanket purchase agreement, or as a subcontractor or named key personnel under a holder's contract.
The full entity record is there too — every NAICS and PSC the SAM registration carries, how an order is paid, and what the firm does not hold.
- Legal name
- Northmark Enterprises LLC
- Entity start date
- 2026-02-22
- Company past performance
- None. Every engagement above was performed by our founder at a prior employer.
- Contract vehicles
- None held, and none in progress
Describe the requirement.
An item and a quantity, or a program that has stopped moving. The line is answered and you get a call back the same business day.