Project blue-new

The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants intends to procure specialized market intelligence subscriptions from The Project Blue Group Limited through a non-competitive award under FAR Subpart 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The procurement covers 14 distinct market service subscriptions focused on critical materials including antimony, chromium, gallium, germanium, magnesium, molybdenum, rare earths, scandium, silicon, tin, titanium, tungsten, and vanadium, along with a Critical Materials Monthly report. The agency justifies the sole-source approach by stating that Project Blue is the only source reasonably available for these subscriptions, which provide unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date data sets covering global production, consumption, stocks, trade, technology, and industry structure. All subscriptions must be delivered to Reston, VA by August 31, 2026. Interested parties may submit bids, proposals, or quotations by August 27, 2025, though this notice is not a request for competitive quotations, and responses will primarily be used to determine whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The anticipated contract award date is September 1, 2025, with a firm-fixed price structure.

This procurement does not utilize any set-aside designation and identifies The Project Blue Group Limited as the intended sole-source contractor. The contract operates under NAICS code 513120 (Periodical Publishers) with a size standard of 1,000 employees, and vendors must be registered in SAM.gov to receive any award. The procurement includes no option periods and establishes a delivery timeline of approximately one year from the anticipated award date. Responses to the notice must be submitted via email to sdiamond@usgs.gov by the August 27, 2025 deadline. The contract falls under PSC category 7630 (Newspapers and Periodicals) and carries the federal meta opportunity ID 6862eb0cccad83fa980a9527.