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Contracts for Ores, minerals, and their primary products
(FY 2007)

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Summary


Fiscal Year: 2007
Total dollars: $1,431,903,969
The amount for this search is 0.3% of all awarded dollars for the fiscal year.
Total number of contractors: 282
Total number of transactions: 1,167
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Extent of Competition Competition categories help link

Pie chart: in table form below
Available for everyone for competition$987,120,245
Everyone could compete, but only one bid or offer was received$93,969,457
Competition within a limited pool$9,428,317
Actions necessary to continue existing competitive contracts for continuity (until the next one could be competed)$0
Available only for groups such as disabled persons, prisoners, and regulated utilities$154,256
Not competed for an allowable reason$126,063,841
Not identified, soon to be addressed$215,167,855

Top 5 Known Congressional Districts where Work is Performed Known congressional district help link

California 30 (Henry A. Waxman)$328,065,921
District of Columbia nonvoting (Eleanor Holmes Norton)$204,664,998
Idaho 1 (C. L. "Butch" Otter / Bill Sali)$189,498,278
New York 14 (Carolyn B. Maloney)$171,717,094
Iowa 2 (James A. Leach / David Loebsack)$144,369,372

Top 5 Products or Services Sold

 Precious Metals Primary Forms$734,970,786
 Nonferrous Base Metal Refinery and Intermediate Forms$676,234,272
 Ores$8,297,105
 Iron and Steel Primary and Semifinished Products$7,875,202
 Minerals, Natural and Synthetic$3,596,806

Top 5 Contracting Agencies Purchasing from Contractor(s)

United States Mint$1,405,632,417
NAVY, Department of the$6,613,920
ARMY, Department of the (except Corps of Engineers Civil Program Financing)$6,492,905
Defense Logistics Agency$2,958,416
National Park Service$2,938,942

Top 10 Contractors

 Afinsa Bienes Tangibles SA$328,065,921
 Poongsan Holdings Corporation$308,813,436
 Olin Corporation$256,278,511
 Sunshine Minting, Inc.$189,386,677
 Mitsui & Co. Precious Metals, Inc.$171,717,094
 Jarden Zinc Products, Inc.$110,799,427
 GOLD CORPORATION$27,365,233
 Auramet Trading LLC$8,777,675
 Cookson Group PLC$4,334,399
 Delta Coals Inc$4,187,435

Trend

Bar chart: in table form below

2000$503,706,188
2001$192,286,371
2002$144,081,314
2003$219,911,479
2004$467,314,572
2005$603,118,693
2006$1,173,425,499
2007$1,431,903,969
2008$1,463,053,341
2009Agencies started sending Recovery data$935,087,240


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This search was done on May 13, 2009.

The contracts database is compiled from the FPDS-NG system. For timeliness details, please see the Data Quality tab.

Note: The numbers in this table can change after each data load. Transactions included in a data load can impact numbers for the current and previous fiscal years.

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