AUBURN — A 7-year-old local company has won an almost $1 million federal contract to upgrade a conveyor system at a New Jersey distribution center.
Owner Doug Bentley said Automation Integrators competed with 20 other vendors for the project. It’s the company’s largest federal contact to date.
“It was a long shot for us — sometimes the long shots come in,” he said Tuesday.
Automation Integrators is an engineering consulting firm with the ability to rebuild old equipment or set up complex warehouse systems. Work on the $933,733 contract will be done at the General Services Administration’s Eastern Distribution Center in Burlington, N.J.
Bentley said the company also learned Tuesday of a successful $350,000 federal contract for work at a Pennsylvania Army depot.
Automation Integrators employs three people, works regularly with subcontractors and uses space in Lewiston’s Hill Mill.
Bentley, the former automation manager at Diamond Phoenix, said he’s looking to expand staff to between five and seven employees by the end of 2013, adding more engineers and technicians.
“It’s a mix of a lot of work (coming in,)” he said. “The year started out slow but the end of the year is basically coming in like gangbusters. It’s a good market indicator for us.”
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