This contract award represents a Blanket Purchase Agreement call issued by the Defense Logistics Agency's Strategic Materials division to Soldier Systems D-Mil, LLC for germanium recycling and zone-refining services. The contract, valued at $983,941.29 with a firm fixed price structure, was awarded on August 28, 2023, and is scheduled for completion by April 1, 2025. The work will be performed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and involves collecting germanium scrap materials and processing them through advanced zone-refining techniques to produce high-purity polycrystalline germanium ingots meeting a minimum purity standard of 99.999% by mass. This call falls under a larger single-award BPA valued at $10,200,000 that was established on October 1, 2021, with a performance period extending through September 2026, enabling the DLA to issue multiple task orders for ongoing strategic materials needs. No set-aside designation was used for this award.
Soldier Systems D-Mil, LLC, a small disadvantaged, veteran-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned business registered in Gilsum, New Hampshire, specializes in advanced materials processing and has exclusively received federal contract awards through the DLA Strategic Materials division for germanium recycling services. The contractor's expertise in transforming complex germanium-containing materials, including those with specialized coatings such as diamond-like carbon or thorium tetrafluoride, supports the Department of Defense's critical mission of managing strategic and critical material supplies. Previous contract awards to this vendor have ranged from approximately $155,000 to $2.2 million, demonstrating consistent capability and reliability in delivering specialized strategic materials refinement services essential to defense and technological applications.
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