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Statement of Work Mine and Mill Cost Estimation Data

Mine and Mill Reclamation Bond Cost Estimation Software Mining, Geology, Milling, Metallurgy and Cost Estimation Training

Prepared, July 2026

Regularly Updated Source for Information to Be Used in Mining Claim Patent and Validity Examinations, Training and Other Mineral Related Public Land Administration Actions.

1.0 Background

In the conduct of business operations, the U. S. Department of the Interior (DOI), is required to undertake examinations of mining claims to determine compliance with the Mining Laws of the United States (30 USC 22, et seq). The DOI also undertakes analyses of mines and proposed mines under the United States Mineral Leasing Act (30 USC 181) and Material Sales Laws (30 USC 601). In such cases, the costs of mining, milling, processing and reclamation must often be estimated. In related work, DOI is required to estimate the costs of performance and/or reclamation so as to confirm that bonds filed pursuant to 43 CFR 3470, 3504, 3602, 3809 are adequate. DOI must of necessity maintain a qualified, certified, professional and highly competent workforce that is capable of evaluating mining claims, mineral deposits, mineral properties and estimating capital, operating and reclamation costs as well as performing other land management functions requiring scarce mining-related skills.

2.0 Objectives: This requirement is for a subscription-based supply where the supply must meet the following criteria.

2.1 Preparation of adequate and reliable cost estimates requires an accurate, timely, and reliable source of cost information as a product that can be cited, that is regionally applicable, accepted by the mining industry and regularly updated. For simplicity, the content of this Objective may be referred to herein as “Mine Cost Data.”

2.2 Preparation of adequate and reliable bond value confirmations or estimates similarly requires an accurate, timely, and reliable means of calculating and confirming bond amounts, in the form of software product that can be cited, that is regionally applicable, accepted by the mining industry, and regularly updated. The reclamation bond cost software must use the same form and content of data as in Objective 2.1. For simplicity, the content of this Objective may be referred to herein as “Reclamation Bond Cost Program.”

2.3 Work that has created the need for Objectives 2.1 and 2.2 requires that DOI be able to recruit, train and maintain highly skilled professional staff. To do so, the products that support Objectives 2.1 and 2.2 and meet this Objective must be supported by a robust curriculum of online technical training that is available to DOI staff without the need for travel costs. The best such training curriculum will consist of online computer-based courses that may be supplemented or augmented from time to time by in-person courses at selected locations, satellite broadcasts, webinars or other means, and all must be supported by a vendor that is capable of working with DOI to create new training or modify existing training to meet DOI’s needs. For simplicity, the content of this Objective may be referred to herein as “Online Training.”

The three above objectives thus become the three Basic Content Requirements in Section 4.0 (i.e.

4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) of this Statement of Work. The successful bidder will be awarded a one-year firm fixed price base contract.

3.0 Specific Definitions

Terms not herein defined are to be construed within the normal, scientific, and industry-accepted usage of the mining, milling, and refining industry.

3.1 “North America” includes the United States and Canada, but not Mexico. For purposes of this contract, “United States” includes Alaska, but excludes Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other United States Possessions.

3.2 “Quarterly Update” means that cost information shall be current as of the calendar quarter preceding the one in which the update is made. For example, a quarterly update dated June 30, 2020 will present cost information current through March 31, 2020.

3.3 “Cost Information” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the specific requirements listed in section 4.1.

3.4 “Reclamation Bond Cost Estimation Software” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the specific requirements listed in section 4.2.

3.5 “Professional mining, milling, geology, mineral processing and reclamation training” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the specific requirements listed in section 4.3.

3.6 “Website” means a location on the worldwide web, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) system, hosted by the contractor, that DOI users may access to use the specified products, once they have created a user profile.

3.7 “Compliant with DOI’s computer system” means a program that has been tested and approved by the appropriate staff of the Bureau’s Information Technology offices, if the program is to be installed on a DOI computer.

3.8 “Ton” means one U.S. ton of 2,000 avoirdupois pounds.

3.9 “Tonne” means one metric ton of 1,000 kilograms, or approximately 2,200 avoirdupois pounds.

3.10 “Labor Burden” means costs of Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Insurances, Social Security (FICA) and other necessary employment costs beyond wages paid to employees.

3.11 Within this Statement of Work and any accompanying documents, the words “indexes” and “indices” may be used interchangeably and will carry the same meaning.

3.12 Within this statement of work, “non-credit access” means that the user of online training may log into and browse any online class for personal or professional enrichment, but in so doing, will not be able to take the final examination or obtain credit for completion. “Non-credit access” is roughly comparable to “auditing” a college course, and DOI may use the term “auditing” from time to time to assist employees in understanding the concept. Browsing or “auditing” an online class must not prevent a user from later undertaking the online class for credit.

3.13 As may be used in this Statement of Work and in any related documents, an Option Year means any future year(s) that any resulting Contract may be renewed at the Government’s discretion, assuming satisfactory performance by the Contractor.

3.14 As may be used in this Statement of Work and in any related documents, an Optional Item means goods or services1 that are not Basic Content Requirements but are goods or services that the Government may desire to obtain, at its sole discretion.

4.0 Specific Requirements

4.1 First Basic Content Requirement: Mine and Mill Cost Data.

4.1.1 Cost indexes and updated cost indices data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Consumer Price Index,

• Producer Price Index,

• Mining and Milling Cost Indices, applicable to the United States and Canada, and

• Such proprietary or composite indices as are appropriate to adequately index prices normally associated with typical mining and milling operations in North America.

• Cost Index should include previous years information back to at least the year 2000

4.1.2 Labor and benefit costs for the United States and Canada data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Metal and industrial mineral surface and underground labor and benefit summary rates for eastern and western United States,

• Metal and industrial mineral surface and underground mine labor and benefit

1 In this context, the term service refers to a product delivered through a service model rather than an actual service as defined under the FAR summary rates for all of the United States,

• Metal and industrial mineral mine wage scales and benefits organized by States,

• Federal employment taxes for mine labor in the United States and Canada,

• State and Provincial employment taxes for mine labor in the United States and

Canada.

• State and Provincial equivalent Workers’ Compensation Rates,

• State and Provincial equivalent Unemployment Insurance Rates, and

• Wage scales and benefit plans for Canadian mines, organized by Province.

4.1.3 Modeled costs for representative surface and underground mines and mills data shall include, but are not limited to:

• All labor, supplies, materials, and operation costs, including costs of on-site management, administration, and supervision,

• Salaries and wages organized by job or profession and mine or mill size, including burden with burden percent,

• Benefits and employment taxes,

• Development costs on the site,

• Applicable sales taxes for purchased supplies and equipment, but no other taxes,

• Purchase and installation or construction of mine and mill equipment and facilities,

• Necessary haul road construction, assuming a compact facility footprint,

• Construction and engineering management fees,

• Tailings disposal,

• Working capital as a clearly identified factor,

• General climate (annual weather), and

• Mine operations, including but not necessarily limited to:

--Drilling & blasting, --Excavation of waste, overburden and ore, --Haulage of ore and waste from pit or shaft collar to processing facility or waste dump, and --Installation, construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of all systems including water, electrical, fuel, drainage, sanitation, laboratories, offices, parts and supply warehousing, and storage of explosives.

• The costs and other factors considered in each model shall be clearly listed.

4.1.3.1 Surface mine facilities to be modeled in the data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Surface mines of approximate daily production in tonnes and stripping ratios:

Tonnes produced daily: 250; 500; 1,000; 2,000; 5,000; 10,000; 20,000;

40,000; 80,000, and

• At stripping ratios of: 1:1, 2:1, 4:1 and 8:1.

4.1.3.2 Underground mine facilities for data purposes shall be modeled, calculated separately as adit entry and shaft entry at three different production rates based on each method’s normal productivity. Categories for this underground mine facilities data are listed below in roughly increasing order of productive potential. Underground mine facilities data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Cut and Fill,

• Shrinkage,

• End Slice,

• Vertical Crater Retreat, also known as VCR,

• Sublevel Longhole,

• Room and Pillar,

• Sublevel Caving, and

• Block Caving.

4.1.3.3 For data purposes, mill facilities to be modeled shall include, but are not necessarily limited to: Flotation, cyanide leach through agitation, and carbon-in pulp leach. Each mill facility shall be calculated for at least three daily production rates, appropriate to their productive potential, and in tonnes per day. Mill operations and facilities data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Flotation, in one, two, or three concentrate product designs, to include conditioners, pumps, launders, pulp distribution, and self-aerating flotation devices,

• Cyanide leach operations, through agitation and Merrill-Crowe zinc precipitation, including countercurrent decantation, clarification, zinc precipitation and precious metal filtration, carbon scavenger recovery, bullion refining and casting, and acid pretreatment of precipitates,

• Carbon-in-pulp (CIP) operations, including stripping, acid treatment and carbon reactivation, electrowinning, scavenger recovery, bullion refining and casting, and countercurrent transfer,

• Each method, mill cost information shall include as appropriate: concentrate thickening, including slurry feed estimated at 35% solids at -200 mesh, thickened to 60% solids, applicable settling areas,

• Tailings thickening, including slurry feed of about 40% solids thickened to 60% solids, with applicable settling area,

• Tailings disposal via dry stacking which may include addition of Portland cement, or another additive intended to provide physical stabilization and/or control pH,

• Tailings disposal via paste backfill which may include addition of Portland cement, or another additive intended to provide physical stabilization and/or control pH,

• Crushing and grinding of medium to hard ore from mine-run size to approximately 80% passing -200 mesh, including primary crushers, ball and/or semi-autogenous grinding mills, pumps, cyclones, screens, conveyors, and feeders,

• Concentrate filtering and drying involving, as applicable, rotary disk filters, pumps, pipes, blowers, and a filtering rate appropriate to the throughput; and moisture reduction from about 15% to 1% using natural gas, propane, or fuel oil, or a combination, and

• Tailings transport and disposal, involving pumps, cyclones, pipes, of about 90 to 100 feet of head over about ½ mile.

4.1.4 Data for electric power costs for North America shall be broken out by State and Province, and shall include regional information and costs and any applicable discounts from electric power suppliers.

4.1.5 Data for natural gas costs for North America shall be broken out by State and Province, and include regional information and costs and any applicable discounts from suppliers.

4.1.6 Cost information for mine and mill supplies, and related routine services (such as assaying and analysis) data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Asphalt; bags (paper, fabric, and plastic lined); bearings and assemblies; brattice material; carbon [generally for Carbon-In-Pulp (CIP) systems]; portland cement; flotation and other appropriate chemicals; concrete, steel, timber and lumber materials for construction; electrical conduit; conveyor belts, belting, idlers, mine-duty pulleys or sheaves; liners for crushers; diamond drilling supplies; dragline mats and rigging;

drainage matting; drill bits and drill steel for large diameter blast holes and small diameter percussion holes; general drilling supplies including drill fluid additives; dust retardants; explosives and related accessories; erosion control materials for slopes; fuels and lubricants, balls, and mill liners; hand tools, disposal of hazardous wastes; heavy media and jig bed material (“ragging”); ladders; liner materials including synthetic membrane and steel plate; mine roof jacks and roof bolts, roof and rock bolt mats, and resin capsules; liquid nitrogen and oxygen; pallets; general personal items; piping and pressure regulators; railway materials; raise bore bits and cutters; polyurethane and steel mats; additives for shotcrete; sprinklers; tires and tire chains; tunnel support; ventilation tubing; wire mesh and wire rope; and zinc dust, and

• Assay and testing services, to include, but not be limited to, sample preparation; fire assay; ore grade and concentrate grade for metals normally anticipated to occur in metal mines in ores and wastes; whole rock analyses; coal testing, including proximate; ash, total sulfur; volatile matter, British thermal unit (BTU) content, and carbon; coal froth flotation, washability and grindability; metallurgical tests including cyanide bottle roll, shake testing, column, and bulk leach tests; agglomeration, screen analysis; grindability;

spiral and jig concentration; and diamond bulk testing.

4.1.7 Cost information for reclamation supplies and related services data shall include, but not be limited to:

• Bacteriacides; calcium compounds as appropriate; dolomite, lime, soda ash, sodium hypochlorite and gypsum; erosion control blankets and soil stabilizers; fertilizer and seed inoculants; mulch and mulching machines; rock stain; sample containers; native plant seed and seeders; silt fences; tree mats and shelters; wildlife control and exclusion devices; plants, including grasses (warm and cool climates), shrubs and trees (plants and seeds), legumes and wildflowers.

4.1.8 Surface mining equipment data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Backhoes; dragline and dredge blocks; excavators; railroad cars and covers; compactors;

continuous miners; hydraulic cranes; crawler transporters; dredges and cutterheads;

walking and crawling draglines; drills (rotary and percussion crawlers, truck-mounted rotary); graders, haulage dispatch systems; hydraulic mining systems; mobile impact hammers; loaders (crawler, skid steer and wheel); locomotives; scrapers (coal, elevating, standard, tandem and towed); cable and hydraulic shovels; tractors (off highway haulers and wheel); trailers (bottom and rear dump haulers; side tilt and utility tilt); wheeled transporters; dump trucks (mechanical bottom-dump and bottom-dump coal haulers;

flatbed; four wheel drive; rear dump articulated, highway and rigid frame); service trucks; shot loader trucks; and water trucks,

• Capital costs for the above items, and

• Operating costs for the above items, by type, breaking out costs for parts, maintenance labor, fuel and/or power, lubricants, tires, and other factors as applicable.

4.1.9 Underground mining equipment data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Bulk explosive chargers, electrical chargers for cap lamps and locomotives; cap lamps

(also known as mine lamps); railcars and dumpers; data and voice communication systems; low profile compressors; concrete pumps; continuous haulage systems (bridge and mobile bridge conveyors; belt storage; chain transfer conveyors; complete systems;

feeder-breakers); contiguous miners (dintheaders, roadheaders); light rock drills (airleg, sinker, stoper); drifters (pneumatic, hydraulic); drifter feeds including telescoping jumbos; blasthole drilling systems and components; load-haul-dump (LHD) and coal scoop tractors; loaders (continuous, overhead shovel and autoloader); coal and noncoal locomotives (diesel, battery and trolley); longwall mining systems (shearers, face shields and retrievers, armored conveyors, mobile roof supports); mine hoists; raise and tunnel borers and climbers; respirators (self-rescuer); rock dusters and roof bolters; scalers, scraper hoists; shaft cutters, shotcreters; shuttle cars; slushier blocks and buckets;

underground ore and coal hauler trucks; tuggers; underground utility vehicles (service, scissors and lube trucks, personnel carriers, cranes, and ANFO loaders); ventilation fans,

• Capital costs for the above items, and

• Operating costs for the above items, by type, breaking out costs for parts, maintenance labor, fuel and/or power, lubricants, tires, and other factors as applicable.

4.1.10 Milling equipment data shall include but not limited to:

• Bag fillers, packers, placers and palletizers; air separators; alluvial material treatment plants; blowers, briquetters; carbon stripping systems; centrifuges; centrifugal gold concentrators; compactors; crushers (for coal and noncoal: roll and double roll, gyratory, hammermill, toggle jaw, cone, impact, and portable screening plants); cyanide analyzers;

wet cyclones (coal and noncoal); density and electrostatic separators; dryers;

electrowinning cells; feeders and distributors (apron, vibrating, wobbler); filters (belt, plate, disk, drum, tube press); flotation machines (column, self-aerating, standard); melt furnaces; grinding mills (rod and ball, rod, semi-autogenous, tower, plus liner cranes and rod chargers); grizzlies; heavy media vessels; jigs (baum, bendelari, circular, duplex, fine coal, shot separator); direct and indirect fired rotary kilns; magnetic separators; mixers

(large and small); disk and drum pelletizers; placer gold washing (concentration) units, sluices and tables; pug mills; reagent feeders; retorts; scalpers; screens (dewatering, trommel, vibrating horizontal and inclined); screw classifiers, wet scrubbers; sieves;

solution heaters; spirals; steel cyanidation tanks; thickeners; and vacuum pumps,

• Capital costs for the above items, and

• Operating costs for the above items, by type, breaking out costs for parts, maintenance labor, fuel and/or power, lubricants, tires, and other factors as applicable.

4.1.11 Miscellaneous equipment data shall include, but not be limited to:

• Automatic samplers (belt and slurry); buildings; catalytic diesel filters; compressors

(booster, centrifugal, shop, rotary screw); conveyors (in-pit, over-land, process plant, stacking); cranes; diamond drill equipment (drills, pumps, barrels); diesel engines; dust collectors (bag, bin, wet); electrical equipment and transmission lines; alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) electric motors (standard, totally enclosed, explosion proof, crusher duty, Totally Enclosed Fan-Cooled (TEFC), variable speed); tailings evaporators;

explosives storage bins; generators (gasoline and diesel), grinders; personal protective and first aid equipment; laboratory equipment; portable lighting; lime slaking plants;

pumps (trash, fuel, metering, process and slurry, submersible, vertical, water well);

reducers (geared, shaft, worm); tanks (cone, cylindrical, fuel, steel, polyethylene) and truck scales,

• Capital costs for the above items, and

• Operating costs for the above items, by type, breaking out costs for parts, maintenance labor, fuel and/or power, lubricants, tires, and other factors as applicable.

4.1.12 Smelting cost information data shall include but without limitation:

• General map showing locations of smelters in North America,

• Survey of North American smelters including capabilities and restrictions,

• General explanation of how smelter costs and returns are calculated,

• Smelter schedules and explanations for copper, lead, and zinc concentrates, and

• Gold refining explanation and general procedures.

• Where information is available, locations of foreign smelters and other facilities outside of North America that may accept ores, including iron ores, and concentrates from U.S.

operations even if ocean shipping may be required.

• Where information is available, capabilities, payments, deductions and other data for smelters outside of North America.

4.1.13 Data for Federal, State and Provincial income, property, royalty, and other applicable tax information for North America shall include but are not limited to:

• Explanation of tax categories and their applications,

• Compendium of tax rate and application information, organized by State and Province,

• Glossary of tax terms, and

• Sample tax calculations.

4.1.14 Transportation cost information data shall include, but are not limited to:

• Truck shipments and costs,

• Rail shipments and costs,

• Ocean shipments and costs,

• Loading and unloading costs, and

• Commodity-specific costs.

4.1.15 Data shall include referrals to suppliers for budgetary cost information and equipment usage guidance by telephone or by e-mail. Suppliers shall be listed by equipment or service category. A contact person, with contact information shall be provided in each category.

Categories shall include products and services referenced in sections 4.1.1 through 4.1.14, above.

• Contact information is described, for budgetary quote usage advice from equipment and service suppliers sufficient to allow DOI employees to confirm and apply cost information.

• Telephone information and advice shall be limited to no fewer than one weekly topic per user and are to be available to DOI users at no additional cost.

4.2 Second Basic Content Requirement: Reclamation Bond Cost Estimation Program

4.2.1 The program must, at a minimum, be capable of performing all of the functions listed within Section 4.2 and be operable by DOI users logging onto a remote, or “cloud,” server.

o The software shall utilize the mine cost data specified in the Basic Content

Requirement 4.1. That mine cost data may be in any form or format that supports the software’s functionality.

4.2.2 Site work. Must support calculations including, but not limited to:

• Fencing.

• Slope Contouring.

• Soil Stabilization.

• Slope armor.

• Scarification.

4.2.3 Planting and Seeding. Must support calculations including, but not limited to:

• Seeding.

• Planting.

• Soil Amendment(s)

4.2.4 Closures. Must support calculations including, but not necessarily be limited to:

• Adits.

• Shafts.

• Drill holes.

• Leach pads.

• Ponds.

• Pumping.

• Roads.

4.2.5 In Situ Leach (ISL) Remediation, including but not limited to:

• Sweep calculations.

• Well field pumping.

• Well abandonment.

• Deep well excavation.

• Deep well injection.

• Water treatment.

• Acid wash.

• Sampling.

• Solids disposal.

4.2.6 Disposal. Must support calculations including, but not limited to:

• Machinery removal.

• Rubbish disposal.

• Vehicle removal.

4.2.7 Demolition. Must support calculations including, but not limited to:

• Building(s).

• Foundation(s).

• Fence removal.

• Pavement.

• Culvert pipe removal.

4.2.8 Monitoring. Must support calculations including, but not limited to:

• Wells.

• Water treatment

• Sampling.

4.2.9 Related supplies and services. Must support calculations including, but not limited to:

• Workforce requirements.

• Administrative costs.

• Job costs.

• Fleet requirements.

• Mobilization costs.

4.2.10 Flexibility in apportionment of costs. At a minimum, users must be able to utilize site-developed costs in the following areas (but not limited to them).

• Fuel costs.

• Electric costs.

• Personnel costs.

• Sizes of mine workings.

• Haul distances.

• Slopes and cuts.

4.2.11 For the purposes of the Reclamation Bond Cost Estimation Software, a nomenclature of versions must be followed. The nomenclature should consist of the word “Version” followed by a numerical code that indicates (a) updates or changes to the software or executable file, (b) updates or changes to the embedded tax calculation algorithms, and

(c) udates or changes to the embedded mine cost data. Using “Version 2.4.8” as an example, the first digit (2) would signify the second revision of the software since its initial development. The second digit (4) would signify the fourth revision of the algorithms used to calculate taxes since Version 2 of the software was released. The third digit (8) would signify the fourth update of the embedded Mine Cost Data since Version 2 of the software was released.

• The contractor may develop a different nomenclature of versions that will also meet the needs of DOI, after consultation with and approval of the COR.

4.3 Third Basic Content Requirement: Curriculum of Online Technical Training

4.3.1 Online Training or Distance Learning (also known as Technology-Enhanced Learning) permits DOI employees to obtain training to improve performance in their jobs without leaving their homes or offices. Such training is often delivered through computer-based methods, or others that affect the same end. The DOI requires a wide selection of online technical and professional training for its employees, in subjects that are inherently nongovernmental, in mining engineering, geology, mining geology, ore deposits, metallurgy, metallurgical engineering, mineral processing, social license to mine, and multiple topics related to the products provided under Statement of Work Sections 4.1 and 4.2. The DOI also requests options for DOI professionals to obtain Continuing Education credits. These CEUs would be in the same subjects as listed above.

The nature of distance learning lends itself to flexibility. Therefore, this Statement of Work proposes different means of acquiring professional training by that method.

Creativity by proposed contractors is encouraged. The following subsections suggest different methods of accomplishing this requirement. Proposed contractors are to price the methods specified in 4.3.2.

4.3.2 Plan of Online Training. This plan calls for 50 online training users per contract year.

The users would have professional-enrichment, non-credit access to any online class.

This plan would include an unlimited number of verifiable certifications of successful course completion that a user could retain, and that DOI could confirm in the event of an audit. Such access would be controlled via logon(s), user ID(s) and/or password(s) which would be assigned by the contractor. Users will be selected by DOI.

4.3.3 Notification of upcoming webinars, satellite broadcasts, face-to-face classes and other training opportunities that are not included in the online training contract should be placed on the contractor’s website and kept updated. The listing should also show costs and any applicable discounts.

5.0 Schedule and Deliverables.

5.1 Deliverable Product Delivery Schedule

5.1.1 Contractor will maintain one or more secure websites to host the deliverables.

5.1.2 Within 30 days of award, the Contractor shall notify Contracting Officer, COR and Technical Contact that access to the secure website(s) is available. At a minimum, the notification shall include the following items:

• For Mine Cost Data, o The means through which users will obtain access to the website that contains the Mine Cost Data, including how to set up a user profile, username, password, pass code, etc.

o The means through which users may print excerpts for reports, litigation, training and other important matters.

• For the Reclamation Bond Cost Program, o The means through which users will obtain access to the website that contains the Reclamation Bond Software, including how to set up a user profile, username, password, pass code, etc.

o The means through which users may print excerpts for reports, training and other important matters.

• For Online Training, o The means through which employees will obtain access to the online training for noncredit use.

o The means through which employees will obtain access to the online training for verifiable course completion credit purposes.

o How the employees will obtain certificates of credit.

o How the DOI officials designated by the COR will track completion of each online class.

5.1.3 The contractor will provide quarterly updates to the contents of the Mine Cost Data and quarterly or semiannual updates to the Reclamation Bond Cost Program, including the embedded cost information.

5.1.3.1 The contractor will notify users by email when quarterly or semiannual updates become available.

5.1.5 In the interest of economy, pricing is requested for both quarterly and semiannual updates to the Reclamation Bond Cost Program. The Government will select one or the other.

5.1.6 DOI will authorize and provide names and contact information to the successful bidder of users of the Mine Cost Data specified in Section 4.1 of this Statement of Work.

5.1.7 DOI will authorize and provide names and contact information to the successful bidder of users of the Reclamation Bonding Software specified in Section 4.2 of this Statement of Work.

5.1.8 DOI will authorize and provide names and contact information to the successful bidder of users of the Curriculum of Online Technical Training specified in Section 4.3 of this Statement of Work.

5.1.9 DOI will authorize and provide names and contact information to the successful bidder of users of the Coal Cost Data specified in Section 4.4.5 of this Statement of Work, if this option is selected.

6 Data and/or software shall be updated on or about the end of calendar quarters.