Request for Proposal (RFP) 2026-1000-0026 As Needed Industrial Heavy Minerals Expert Consulting, Sampling, and Analytical Services

PURPOSE:
The Department of Natural Resources, Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office, is soliciting proposals for As Needed Industrial Heavy Minerals Expert Consulting, Sampling, And Analytical Services.

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office (TLO) is seeking the services of a uniquely experienced and industry leading industrial Heavy Minerals (HM) integrated “one-stop-shop” expert consultant contractor that can provide expert advice, exploration, laboratory-analytical services, and sample processing for industrial HM and gold placers. The contractor must provide the entire suite of consulting, exploration, sample processing, and analytical services for industrial HM placers needed and required by international mineral resources reporting standards and codes for HM placer projects

MINIMUM PRIOR EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

In order for offers to be considered responsive, offerors must meet these minimum prior experience and qualification requirements:

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in research, exploration, and analysis of industrial Heavy Minerals (HM) placers for main principal consultants;
• Minimum of 10 peer reviewed technical papers and peer reviewed reports on HM in the US;
• A minimum of 10 years’ professional experience in HM placer exploration and HM resource development of nearshore marine sediments, with a minimum of five years’ professional exploration experience in particular of garnet and epidote group minerals in the Gulf of Alaska and a minimum of five years’ professional exploration experience with zircon, rutile and ilmenite HM on the eastern seaboard of the US;
• Expert level knowledge of the abrasives HM industry, their requirements for end products, and expert knowledge of the zircon, rutile and ilmenite HM industry and their requirements for TiO2 and zircon end products as demonstrated for example, by invited speaking engagements, peer reviewed publications and tenure in industry; and

• Industry specific industrial HM placer laboratory facilities and equipment.

TLO’s Chief Geologist is a Qualified Person (QP), as defined by NI43-101, and reserves the right to inspect the Contractor’s laboratory facilities prior to contract signing. The QP will confirm the dry laboratory and wet laboratory are in separate rooms/areas and will evaluate risks of sample contamination. The QP also must ensure that all required laboratory and mineral processing equipment as outlined in Section 3.01 is present and the dry laboratory for HL separation and magnetic separation is dust free to avoid cross sample contamination of pixie dust gold.

Offerors must detail in their proposal how they meet the minimum prior experience and qualification requirements above. Offerors that fail to identify in their proposals how they meet the prior experience and qualification requirements will be deemed non-responsive.

ADA: The State of Alaska complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids, services, and/or special modifications to submit a proposal should contact the DNR Procurement Section via; email to tamra.czerny@alaska.gov ; telephone at 1 (907) 269–8665; or TTY/TDD at 711 (Alaska Relay) not later than 10 calendar days prior to the RFP closing date to make necessary arrangements.