Ohio manufacturers & defense suppliers · CMMC / NIST 800-171

    Ohio CMMC gap assessment: know your readiness in 45 minutes

    An Ohio CMMC gap assessment with a senior TRNSFRM engineer, not an SDR. In 45 minutes we score your environment live against the controls behind CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 (and the frameworks that overlap them, like DFARS 7012 reporting and CIS hardening). You leave with a written one-page snapshot: your biggest gaps, ranked, and whether your contracts point toward Level 1 or Level 2. No slide deck, no discovery-call theater.

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    What the Gap Audit covers, at a glance

    Who this is for

    • Central Ohio and Northeast Ohio manufacturers with DoD work or prime flow-downs in their POs
    • Shops that can't answer cleanly whether they touch CUI or only FCI
    • Suppliers under SPRS pressure: an old score, a stale SSP, or a prime asking for evidence
    • Plants where estimating, programming, and the shop floor all share one flat network

    What you get in 45 minutes

    • An SPRS-style score read: where you likely land today against the 110 NIST 800-171 requirements
    • Level 1 vs Level 2 clarity: self-assessment, or Level 2 (self or C3PAO), based on your contracts
    • CUI boundary guidance: where the enclave could be drawn to shrink scope before you spend money
    • Your top gaps identified and ranked by what an assessor looks at first
    • The SSP and POA&M path: what comes after the snapshot and in what order
    • A written one-page snapshot you keep, plus clear next-step options

    What it isn't

    • This is a planning conversation, not a certified C3PAO assessment.
    • It is not a priced remediation proposal. Scope drives that, and 45 minutes won't settle scope.
    • If we don't find anything worth fixing, we'll tell you that in writing.

    Why Ohio shops stall on CMMC

    Four patterns account for most of the delay we see in Ohio plants. None of them are about buying more tools.

    OT and plant-floor scope

    CNC controllers, HMIs, and legacy Windows boxes on the production VLAN get swept into the boundary because nobody separated them. Scope decisions move the budget more than tooling ever will.

    Multiple plants, one flat network

    A second building in Marysville or Twinsburg joined by a site-to-site tunnel doubles the assessment surface unless the CUI work is fenced into an enclave.

    CUI sprawl in email and Teams

    Marked drawings land in a shared inbox, get dropped into a Teams channel, and copy to a desktop. That's three systems in scope that didn't need to be.

    Waiting on “Phase 2”

    Rollout dates have shifted, but DFARS 252.204-7012 and your SPRS score are contractual right now. Primes are asking for evidence regardless of the clock.

    Want the numbers behind all of this? See our CMMC cost bands for Ohio manufacturers.

    What Ohio clients say

    5.0 from 177 Google Reviews

    “So stoked with Jeff and his team. These guys are professional, courteous, timely and super knowledgeable. I was able to describe our networking problem, show them our systems and from there they just went to town figuring out what was really wrong and providing an affordable solution!”

    James Strausz

    Zaremba Group · Google Review · Cleveland, OH

    “Even when tackling tough problems, they deliver on time, in budget, and with a smile. Jeff and his team have been fantastic to work with.”

    John Bellett

    Custom Rubber Corp · Google Review · Cleveland, OH

    “TRNSFRM is a fabulous company to work with! They are knowledgeable, professional, reliable, prompt, and friendly. My company works with them daily and they provide excellent IT service for the 47+ locations we have. They are quick but also thorough. Always going above and beyond to help us out.”

    Sophia

    Google Review

    CMMC Gap Audit

    Questions Ohio manufacturers ask us first

    Here they are the same thing. Our Free 45-Minute Gap Audit is a CMMC gap assessment in readiness form: we compare your current environment against the CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 requirements, estimate an SPRS-style score, and rank the gaps. It is a planning step, not a certified assessment. A formal Level 2 certification assessment is performed only by an accredited C3PAO, and TRNSFRM is not a C3PAO.

    It depends on the data in your contracts, not your headcount. If you only receive Federal Contract Information (contract data that isn't for public release), Level 1 and an annual self-assessment is the path. The moment CUI (marked drawings, specs, technical data covered by DFARS 252.204-7012) is stored, processed, or transmitted on your systems, you are in Level 2 territory, and your contract language determines whether that's a self-assessment or a C3PAO certified assessment. The Gap Audit is where we read your actual flow-downs and tell you which one you're looking at.

    Completely different. A C3PAO is an accredited third party that performs the certified assessment and issues the decision. It is a paid, formal, multi-day engagement, and we are not a C3PAO. The Gap Audit is a free 45-minute readiness conversation with a senior engineer that tells you where you stand before you spend money on remediation or book an assessor. Think of it as the map, not the exam.

    Nothing formal. It helps if you can pull up one DoD purchase order or prime agreement so we can read the flow-down clauses, and know roughly how your network is laid out: how many buildings, whether the plant floor is separated, and whether you're on Microsoft 365. If you already have an SSP, SPRS score, or a prime's questionnaire, bring them. If you have none of that, that's a normal starting point for an Ohio shop.

    Yes. TRNSFRM is headquartered at 10143 Royalton Rd Suite J, North Royalton, OH 44133, and we serve manufacturers across Northeast Ohio and Central Ohio: Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Columbus, Marysville, New Albany, Dublin, and the Rickenbacker corridor. Remote work happens over Teams; on-site plant visits are part of how we scope OT environments.

    Level 1 typically lands in a $10,000 to $35,000 first-cycle planning band for a small shop. Level 2 with a C3PAO assessment commonly runs $75,000 to $300,000+ across readiness, remediation, tooling, and the assessment fee. Those are planning bands, not quotes. Your CUI boundary drives the number. Our Columbus manufacturers cost guide breaks the drivers down in detail.

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    Book your 45-Minute Compliance Gap Audit

    45 minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with a written 1-page risk snapshot: ranked gaps and the quick wins you can close in week one.

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