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- 140G0125Q0218
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This Performance Work Statement (PWS) details a one-year subscription contract for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Minerals Information Center (NMIC). The agency requires a comprehensive subscription for 5 users covering monthly reports and supply chain information for multiple metal commodities, including gold, silver, platinum-group metals, copper, niobium, and tantalum. The subscription will provide price reporting, market assessments, forecasts, and supply chain tracking for North American and global marketplaces.
The solicitation is an unrestricted acquisition under FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures, with quotes due by September 15, 2025, and an expected award date of September 22, 2025. Vendors must be registered in SAM.gov and will be expected to deliver timely, accurate reports with data in Excel format, including historical and forecast data for demand, supply, capacity, and prices. The subscription supports NMIC's mission of analyzing and disseminating minerals information, aligning with national materials policy and defense stockpile objectives. The contract will be administered by the Department of the Interior's US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants, with a NAICS code of 513120 and a size standard of 1,000 employees.
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PERFORMANCE-BASED WORK STATEMENT
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
A. Introduction
The U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodities Section of the National Minerals Information Center requests a 1-year subscription for 5 users to a monthly precious metals reports and reports for 5 users to the gold, silver, platinum-group metals, precious metals, copper, niobium, and tantalum supply chain for the North American marketplace.
The vendor shall provide comprehensive yearbooks on gold, silver, and platinum-group metals as well as outlook reports on copper, niobium, precious metals, and tantalum in the United States and globally and coverage of events and activities that are related to metal mining, extraction, development, production of refined metal, trade, technology, governmental issues and recycling. The information enhances mineral commodity specialists’ understanding of issues and activities in the respective industries and is regularly used in USGS publications.
It is important for mineral commodity specialists to have up-to-date information so that they can be conversant with customers they serve such as industry leaders, decision-makers, primary metal producers, metal service center managers, metal-consuming end users, original equipment manufacturers, and metal recyclers worldwide.
The subscription helps mineral commodity specialists gather valuable information, enhancing their expertise in their role as the principal USGS contact point for the mineral commodities to which they are assigned, and in reporting on important industry developments through monthly, quarterly, and annual USGS publications.
This data supports the mission of the National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) to analyze and disseminate minerals and mineral supply chain information as mandated in the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980 (30 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) and the National Defense Stockpile Act (50 U.S.C. § 98 et seq.) by enabling the Department of Defense to secure strategic materials for national defense. Additionally, it aligns with Executive Order 13817 signed by President Trump on December 20, 2017 and EO 14241 signed by President Trump on March 20, 2025.
B. Background – see above
C. Definitions/Applicable Documents
The service uses the following terminology:
Price Reporting – The vendor shall provide reports of historical prices and forecasts future prices for the covered commodities.
Market Assessments – Market assessments consist of data and analysis of current conditions in a specific market. Market conditions are defined as the current state of global and regional demand, production, capacity, imports, and exports.
Forecasts –Provide forecasts for expected future market conditions of the materials as described above. Forecasting involves the use of models and equations that explain how variables affecting the demand, supply, and price of a given market behave and interact. By its very nature, forecasting involves model error mainly arising from an incomplete understanding of how market variables interact and “noise” within the data that is input into the model.
Supply Chain – A supply chain reports to track the steps needed to bring, in this case, a material from the ground through its various processing steps and to final consumption, disposal or recover (recycling). The components of a supply chain include producers, vendors, distributors, transportation companies, intermediate consumers, and final consumers.
D. Scope
The Mineral Commodities Section of the National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) will subscribe to the provider’s services for gold, silver, platinum-group metals, precious metals, copper, niobium, and tantalum supply chains in the North American and global marketplace.
Requirement by the mineral commodity specialists in the Mineral Commodities Section of NMIC for a subscription for 7 users to vendor’s information including data in Excel format with historical and forecast data for gold, silver, platinum-group metals, precious metals, copper, niobium and tantalum.
The required data must include data fields outlooks for demand, supply, capacity, and prices for the covered materials. Analyst access is also required to clarify, expand, and explain the data that has been provided, as well as topics related to the data provided.
II. WORK REQUIREMENTS
A. Technical Requirements.
| 1. Vendor will provide NMIC economists, commodity specialists and, physical scientists access to the reports described above. | ||
| 2. | Vendor will provide reports on time as scheduled and completed with minimal errors. Any errors discovered by NMIC staff will be promptly addressed by the vendor. |
B. Deliverables.
1. Gold Service
2. Silver Service
3. Platinum-Group Metals Service
4. Precious Metals Service
5. Copper Service
6. Niobium Service
7. Tantalum Service
III. SUPPORTING INFORMATION
A. Place of Performance – Not applicable
B. Period of Performance: one year from date of award
C. Government Furnished Property (GFP) – Not applicable
D. Special Considerations.
1. Key personnel qualifications (researchers, instructors, writers, project managers, programmers, etc.)
2. Data Rights, Safety, Environment.
3. Security/Privacy issues (ingress to Federal buildings, personnel clearances, computer security).
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