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Contracts for Ores, minerals, and their primary products
(FY 2009)

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Summary


Fiscal Year: 2009
Total dollars: $935,087,240
The amount for this search is 0.6% of all awarded dollars for the fiscal year.
Total number of contractors: 152
Total number of transactions: 536
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Extent of Competition Competition categories help link

Pie chart: in table form below
Available for everyone for competition$178,740,725
Everyone could compete, but only one bid or offer was received$37,476,605
Competition within a limited pool$136,455,630
Actions necessary to continue existing competitive contracts for continuity (until the next one could be competed)$2,794,974
Available only for groups such as disabled persons, prisoners, and regulated utilities$151,344
Not competed for an allowable reason$18,025,532
Not identified, soon to be addressed$561,442,431

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

California 30 (Henry Waxman)$507,182,450
New York 14 (Carolyn Maloney)$158,970,279
Idaho 1 (Walt Minnick)$142,259,669
Illinois 12 (Jerry Costello)$45,441,212
Massachusetts 3 (James McGovern)$34,976,939

Top 5 Products or Services Sold

 Precious Metals Primary Forms$866,827,856
 Nonferrous Base Metal Refinery and Intermediate Forms$60,885,921
 Iron and Steel Primary and Semifinished Products$4,927,280
 Ores$1,364,834
 Minerals, Natural and Synthetic$879,281

Top 5 Contracting Agencies Purchasing from Contractor(s)

United States Mint$927,502,392
U.S. Coast Guard$3,251,181
ARMY, Department of the (except Corps of Engineers Civil Program Financing)$1,330,260
NAVY, Department of the$1,288,180
Bureau of Prisoners/Federal Prison System$1,103,677

Top 10 Contractors

 Afinsa Bienes Tangibles SA$507,182,450
 Mitsui & Co. Precious Metals, Inc.$158,970,279
 Sunshine Minting, Inc.$142,238,976
 Olin Corporation$44,777,814
 Cookson Group PLC$34,998,616
 Jarden Zinc Products, Inc.$15,484,909
 Ohio Precious Metals LLC$9,712,218
 GOLD CORPORATION$8,019,819
 Auramet Trading LLC$5,626,600
 Brandford Castle Inc$2,791,360

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


*END OF REPORT*

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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