ALTERNATIVE METALS STUDY Contract Number: TM-HQ-11-C-0049 FINAL REPORT August 31, 2012 Submitted to: United States Mint 801 Ninth Street, NW Washington, DC 20220 Contracting Officer Josephine Stanton, 202-354-7425,
[email protected] Contracting Officer Representatives Richard R. Robidoux, 202-354-7514,
[email protected] Theresa Agugliaro, 202-354-7419,
[email protected] Uvon Tolbert, 202-354-7454,
[email protected] John Roeder, 202-354-7422,
[email protected] Submitted by: Concurrent Technologies Corporation Robert J. Stossel, 814-269-2541,
[email protected] Michael L. Tims, 814-269-2515,
[email protected] Joseph R. Pickens, 410-489-9696,
[email protected] David K. McNamara, 814-262-2320,
[email protected] Lawrence S. Kramer, 410-531-0679,
[email protected] Michael G. McCann, 814-466-7116,
[email protected] Raymond F. Decker, consultant, 734-261-2800,
[email protected] 100 CTC Drive Johnstown, PA 15904 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pursuant to Public Law 111-302 (the Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010), the Secretary of the Treasury was given “authority to conduct research and development on all circulating coins.” Furthermore, this law authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to “solicit input from or otherwise work in conjunction with entities within or outside of the Federal Government.” To achieve an unbiased, independent assessment of potential and currently available metallic materials and processing methods for production of United States (US) circulating coins, the United States Mint, working on behalf of the Secretary of the Treasury, awarded a competitively bid contract (Number TM-HQ-11-C-0049 entitled “Alternative Materials Study”; referred to here as “the study”) to Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) headquartered in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.