76-Subscriptions for Critical Minerals Market Reports

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) intends to award a non-competitive purchase order to CRU International Ltd (CRU) in accordance with FAR 13.5 Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items and Commercial Services, for subscriptions for 10 market reports on critical minerals, to be delivered to Reston, Virginia. The period of performance is one year from the date the contractor receives the purchase order. There are three one-year option periods. CRU is the only known source for this requirement because its market reports contain proprietary unique data sets that forecast and cover global production, production capacity, trade, consumption, demand drivers, and prices, on "upstream" (e.g. mining, smelting, refining, etc.) markets for these minerals. The proposed contract action