ACI Alloys, Inc.

ACI Alloys, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business manufacturer based in San Jose, California, supplies high-purity precious metals, sputtering targets, evaporation sources, and reclamation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business and full-and-open set-asides. The company operates under primary NAICS 331492 (secondary smelting, refining, and alloying of nonferrous metals) and has maintained federal contracting relationships for over thirty years.

ACI Alloys' customer base is heavily concentrated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which accounts for 31 of 42 total awards (74% of awards) and $3.3 million of the $3.4 million combined potential value across the portfolio. The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research and Information Warfare Systems Command together represent five additional awards, with NASA Shared Services Center and Naval Air Systems Command rounding out a five-agency customer set. Recent prime work includes a $50,000 firm fixed price delivery order from NIST for gold pellets awarded April 15, 2026; a $38,101 order for precious metals and reclamation services awarded August 7, 2026; a $1,500 delivery order for reclaim of used precious metals awarded September 18, 2026; and a $30,053 purchase order from the Office of Naval Research for IR sputtering targets awarded December 5, 2023.

ACI Alloys holds four active indefinite-delivery contracts, with the majority of task-order volume under the NIST precious metals purchase and reclamation IDIQ awarded September 22, 2025, with a $725,000 ceiling running through September 21, 2030 under Total Small Business set-aside. This vehicle carries eleven task orders ($329 thousand combined potential value) across the portfolio. Delivery orders under the NIST IDIQ procure high-purity precious metals—gold, platinum, palladium, and silver in forms including evaporation sources, pellets, and sputter targets with purity specifications from 99.9% to 99.999%—and comprehensive reclamation services for contaminated and scrap precious metals. Work is performed at ACI Alloys' San Jose facility, with reclamation services extending to NIST cleanroom facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Boulder, Colorado. Three additional Navy IDIQs account for ten task orders across the portfolio. Activity has been intermittent over the past five years (one award in 2020, four in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2025, three in 2026), with only one award facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. Across the portfolio, ACI Alloys operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint, supplying materials and services directly to federal agencies without intermediate teaming relationships.

vacuum arc melting of high purity materials to make high purity metals and alloys