The University of North Dakota Division of Research and Economic Development has been awarded a $2.45 million firm fixed price definitive contract by the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy to produce mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources. The contract aims to support DOE's mission of developing rare earth element extraction, concentration, separation, and metallization capabilities from domestic coal resources. Major subcontractors include Envergex, LLC to develop heat...
This is a $400,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation, a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kentucky. The contract is for the "Rare Earth Element Identification and Characterization of Coal and Coal By-Products Containing High Rare Earth Element Concentrations." This contract is not a set-aside. The contractor will provide services related to the identification and...
This is a $400,000.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to the West Virginia University Research Corporation, a non-profit subsidiary of West Virginia University. The contract is for the identification and characterization of rare earth elements in coal and coal by-products. The contract has a period of performance through April 30, 2018. No set-aside was used. The West Virginia University Research Corporation is the prime...
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory awarded a $2.1 million firm fixed price definitive contract to the West Virginia University Research Corporation to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products in an environmentally sound manner. The work will be conducted by the prime contractor and four major subcontractors - Eich Design LLC, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Marion Dupont Scott Equine Medical Center...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Xlight Corp, a Veteran Owned Business, for the identification and characterization of rare earth elements in coal and coal by-products. The contract has a ceiling value of $214,794.51 and was awarded on October 1, 2016, with a completion date of April 30, 2018. The contract is focused on the rare earth element identification and characterization of coal and coal by-products containing high...
Energy Fuels Holdings Corp., Energy Fuels Inc. Division, has been awarded a definitive contract valued at one million nine hundred thousand U.S. dollars by the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy to provide production of mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources. The firm fixed price contract runs from October 1, 2020 through November 29, 2021 with performance taking place in Lakewood, Colorado. No set aside designation or subcontractors are indicated. The Department of Energy...
This definitive contract awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Winner Water Services Inc. is valued at $3.8 million to support the development of processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products. The work will enable the production of mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources containing a minimum of 300 parts per million total rare earth elements. Winner Water Services will conduct bench and engineering-scale validation of extraction,...
Concurrent Technologies Corporation has been awarded a $2,023,129 firm fixed price definitive contract by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to support the development of processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products. The work will involve enabling, separation, and process technologies to validate the capability of producing mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources containing a minimum of 300 parts per million total rare earth elements....
This firm fixed-price federal contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Tetra Tech, Inc., a global provider of consulting, engineering, and technical services. The contract, valued at $376,200.00, is for the Rare Earth Element Identification and Characterization of Coal and Coal By-Products Containing High Rare Earth Element Concentrations. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2018 and was awarded on September 27, 2016. This...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) awarded a $99,448.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to USA Rare Earth LLC to conduct research and development across a variety of engineering and science disciplines at ERDC's facilities located throughout the United States. This contract is not a set-aside and was awarded under a Broad Agency Announcement solicitation that is continuously open for pre-proposals. The research areas include, but are not...
This is a $1,499,580.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy to the University of North Dakota, Division of Research & Economic Development (UND) to conduct sampling, characterization, and round robin analyses of domestic U.S. coal-based resources containing high rare earth element (REE) concentrations. The contract has no set-aside designation. UND is collaborating with subcontractors the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research and the Kentucky Geological Survey to assess REE concentrations in eastern U.S. coal, while UND will focus on western U.S. coal. The objective is to identify sampling locations with the potential to contain over 300 parts per million of REEs and a heavy-to-light REE ratio greater than 1.0, in order to assist the DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory in determining the economic feasibility of recovering REEs from coal and coal by-products.