The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) awarded a $10,951,502.70 Firm Fixed Price contract to MP Mine Operations LLC, a limited liability company focused on rare earth mining and processing, for the mining, processing, and delivery of up to 172 metric tons of permanent rare earth magnet grade neodymium oxide (Nd2O3) and praseodymium oxide (Pr6O11), referred to as "NdPr Oxide". The contract has an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2025 and was awarded on July 31, 2024 under an 'other...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy awarded a $2.15 million firm fixed price definitive contract to Upshots LLC for the production of mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources. The contract is in response to a solicitation from the National Energy Technology Laboratory seeking proposals to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products in an environmentally sound manner at bench and engineering scales. Work will be conducted at the...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy awarded MP Mine Operations LLC MP Materials Division a $3.13 million firm fixed price contract to support the development of processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products in an environmentally conscious manner. The contract will enable MP Materials to validate its capability to produce mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources containing a minimum of 300 parts per million total rare earth elements at bench...
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...
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...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) awarded a $368,919 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Allonnia LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to conduct research on the biotechnology-enabled recovery of rare earth elements (REEs). The contract, titled "BIOTECHNOLOGY ENABLED RECOVERY OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (BIOREE) BY HARNESSING PROTEIN SURFACE DISPLAY ON SOLID SUPPORT BEADS," is not set aside for any specific business...
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...
<p>This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado Region, a civilian federal agency, to Rare Earth, a woman-owned small business limited liability company. The contract, valued at $17,000.00, is for the RGFO Mineral Potential Report Additional Information. The contract was awarded on September 9, 2013 with a completion date of April 30, 2014. This contract was set aside for total small businesses.</p>
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $20,932,818 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Battelle Memorial Institute, a large nonprofit research and development organization, to develop novel bio-based technologies leveraging environmental microbiology for the separation, purification, and conversion of rare earth elements (REEs) into manufacturing-ready forms. This contract, awarded under the Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource (EMBER) program, aims to engineer microbes...
This is a $9,975,680.00 definitive, firm fixed price contract awarded by the Strategic Materials division of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to G.e. Chaplin, Inc. (GEC), a corporate entity doing business as GEC. The contract is for the delivery of cerium carbonate, a rare earth material, in support of the National Defense Stockpile. The contract has a period of performance ending on February 28, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. GEC is the prime contractor and no...
The Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials awarded a $251,420.26 firm fixed-price purchase order to Rare Earth Salts Separations And Refining LLC, a privately held U.S. company, for other special studies and analysis related to rare earth elements (REEs). This contract is not associated with a larger vehicle. There is no set-aside designation. Rare Earth Salts Separations And Refining LLC has also received an $8.5 million definitive contract from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support and has been awarded contracts as a subcontractor to conduct pilot-scale extraction and concentration of REEs from coal and lignite mining waste streams, funded through federal grants to the University of North Dakota.