# Manufacturing quotes: machining, molding, sheet metal and PCB assembly

> Record a request for quotation for a made-to-print part: process, material, tolerances, finish, quantity and lead time.

Status: request only.

## What it is for

An engineer with a drawing needs a shop that runs the right process at the right volume: five prototypes machined in a week, or 20,000 molded housings a quarter. Finding a shop with open capacity, the right equipment and the quality certifications for one part is slow, and many requests for quotation go unanswered. This records the part, process and terms so that which processes, volumes and lead times go unserved can be studied.

Mechanical and electrical engineers at product companies, hardware startups moving from prototype to production, and sourcing staff replacing a shop.

## What happens to a request

Your request for quotation is recorded as described. No drawings are taken, nothing is quoted or ordered, and no shop is sent your part. If you leave a contact and a shop that runs this process at this volume can be identified, a reply may come; it is not promised. Do not send drawings here: confidential or export-controlled designs belong with a shop under your own agreement. Contact details are stored apart from the requirement and deleted after 180 days.

## What you get

A receipt with the request's identifier, the fields we could not match (a unit price, a shop or a lead time is never supplied here), and a plain statement of what happens next.

## Scope and limits

Anywhere; shop location preferences are recorded as stated.

- No manufacturing is done or ordered; this records the requirement.
- Drawings and CAD files are not accepted; describe the part in words.
- Export-controlled parts (ITAR or EAR) are recorded only as a stated need.

## Make a request

POST the request for quotation to /contract-manufacturing/requests (or /requests), use the form on this page, or call the submit_request MCP tool with proposition "contract-manufacturing".

POST https://services.forevenza.com/contract-manufacturing/requests with JSON like:

```json
{
  "action": "quote",
  "need": "250 machined brackets in 6061-T6 aluminum, about 4 by 2 by 1 inch, plus or minus 0.001 inch on two bores, black anodized, delivered to Minneapolis within four weeks.",
  "specifications": {
    "process": "CNC_MILLING",
    "material": "6061-T6 aluminum",
    "tolerance": "+/- 0.001 in on two bores, +/- 0.005 in elsewhere",
    "finish": "Type II black anodize",
    "part_quantity": 250,
    "lead_time_days": 28,
    "certifications": [
      "ISO 9001"
    ]
  },
  "quantity": {
    "amount": 250,
    "unit": "parts"
  },
  "timing": {
    "latest": "2026-12-04"
  },
  "geography": {
    "text": "Minneapolis, MN",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "budget": {
    "amount": 45,
    "currency": "USD",
    "per": "unit"
  }
}
```

Schema: https://services.forevenza.com/contract-manufacturing/schema.json