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$128,453,349

Department of the Treasury·Bureau of Engraving and Printing

to KOENIG & BAUER BANKNOTE SOLUTIONS SA

financeactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2017 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2017-09-28·LATEST ACTION2026-04-13·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_2031ZA17C00174_2041_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

DESIGN, FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY, INTEGRATION, DELIVERY, INSTALLATION, SET-UP, TESTING AND TRAINING OF THREE (3) NON-SEQUENTIAL LARGE EXAMINING AND PRINTING EQUIPMENT (NS-LEPE) MACHINES WITH OPTION FOR THREE ADDITIONAL NS-LEPE.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest obligation on the 2017 contract to deliver advanced currency-examination and printing machines to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Sub-sectors
currency-productionbureau-of-engraving-and-printingequipment-procurement
Why this matters

Sustains U.S. currency production capacity and anti-counterfeiting technology; critical infrastructure for monetary system integrity.

Supply-chain signal

Koenig & Bauer (German banknote-equipment manufacturer) remains sole supplier of advanced examining/printing systems to U.S. currency production; no domestic alternative evident.

U.S.–China competition angle

Currency-production equipment is not a direct China competition vector, but reliance on German supplier underscores absence of domestic advanced banknote-machinery capability.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-25. Cost: $0.003092.

Period of performance
Start
2017-09-28
End
2027-11-29
Status
activein 517 days
Sources

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