Every credential on this page is checkable by a stranger, in a registry we do not control.

A property manager, a general contractor and a public buyer all open the same four-part file before a crew is allowed through the gate. Each of the four parts is issued by a different party, and not one of them can be satisfied by a contractor writing a sentence about itself:

• a completed Form W-9 carrying the legal name and taxpayer identification number the payer will report against
• a certificate of insurance naming the correct certificate holder, produced by an insurance producer rather than by the contractor
• evidence of any certification the contract actually relies on, traceable to the body that issued it
• proof that the legal entity itself is current with the state that chartered it

Rare Earth Ltd publishes this page so a buyer can test each identifier against the registry that issued it instead of trusting a capability statement. The sections below give, for every credential, what the credential is, which registry holds it, and what the credential does not prove. The second half of each answer matters more than the first, because an onboarding file goes wrong when a buyer treats an identifier as a qualification.

One rule governs the whole page: Rare Earth Ltd states a credential as held only where a third party can confirm it, and gives the current status of anything still in application, so a buyer plans against the record as it stands today.

HUBZone and 8(a) are in pursuit: both are applications filed with the U.S. Small Business Administration and awaiting a decision. Neither is represented anywhere on this site as held, and each becomes a claim on the day the SBA issues the certificate. Bonding runs through the prime: a solicitation requiring a bid bond, a payment bond or a performance bond is one Rare Earth Ltd answers as a subcontractor to a bonded prime, and naming that early is cheaper for both sides than finding it at the bid deadline.

Legal entity: Rare Earth Ltd, doing business as Thrare Contracting. Business address: 8735 Dunwoody Pl, Ste R, Atlanta, GA 30350.

According to Federal Acquisition Regulation clause 52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting, effective August 2020, a Commercial and Government Entity code means "An identifier assigned to entities located in the United States or its outlying areas by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Branch to identify a commercial or government entity by unique location". The same definition covers a second case: an identifier assigned by a NATO member or by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency to entities outside the United States, recorded and maintained by the DLA CAGE Branch in the CAGE master file, "known as a NATO CAGE (NCAGE) code".

The operative words in that definition are "identify" and "unique location". A CAGE code answers one question only: which legal entity, at which physical location, is this. A CAGE code is not a certification, not a qualification, not an approval to perform work, and not evidence that the holder has ever been awarded a contract. Rare Earth Ltd holds CAGE 9JAV8, and the honest reading of that fact is that the entity is identified in the federal system, nothing more.

The General Services Administration records that the CAGE code "is managed by and obtained from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and is not changing at this time", which is why a CAGE code stays stable across SAM renewals while the registration expiration date moves.

According to Federal Acquisition Regulation provision 52.204-6, Unique Entity Identifier, current as of 03/13/2026, a unique entity identifier means "a number or other identifier used to identify a specific commercial, nonprofit, or Government entity". The provision directs an offeror that does not have one to contact the entity designated at www.sam.gov to obtain it, which locates the authority for issuing the identifier outside the contractor entirely.

The General Services Administration states that "The Unique Entity ID (SAM) is a 12-character alphanumeric value managed, granted, and owned by the government. It is used to identify unique entities." GSA guidance instructed federal agencies to use the Unique Entity ID as the entity identifier no later than April 4, 2022, and from that date the older DUNS Number stopped being the authoritative identifier. A buyer holding a legacy vendor file with a DUNS Number and no UEI is holding a record that federal award systems no longer key on.

Rare Earth Ltd carries UEI Z4WKS4UE8NJ6. A CAGE code runs to five characters and a UEI runs to 12 characters, so the two are told apart by length before anything else, and a vendor form that asks for one and receives the other will fail validation rather than fail quietly.

Under 49 CFR 26.5, "Disadvantaged Business Enterprise or DBE means a for-profit small business concern (1) That is at least 51 percent owned by one or more individuals who are both socially and economically disadvantaged; and (2) Whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of the socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who own it." The airport concession program runs on a parallel definition: under 49 CFR 23.3, an Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise is a firm seeking to operate as a concession meeting the same 51 percent ownership and control tests. DBE and ACDBE are two certifications under two parts, not one certification described two ways.

Certification is made once and honored statewide. Under 49 CFR 26.81(a), every DOT recipient in a state must participate in a Unified Certification Program, and under 49 CFR 26.81(b) that program "shall make all certification decisions on behalf of all DOT recipients in the state", with decisions that "shall be binding on all DOT recipients within the state". 49 CFR 26.81(b)(2) requires that an applicant "is required to apply only once for a DBE certification that will be honored by all recipients in the state", and 49 CFR 26.81(c) requires that all such certifications be pre-certifications, "made final before the due date for bids or offers on a contract".

The verification path is public by regulation. 49 CFR 26.81(g) requires each program to maintain a unified DBE directory and to "make the directory available to the public electronically, on the internet", updated "as soon as" changes are made. Under 49 CFR 26.31(a), each listing must carry the firm's business address, business phone number, website and the types of work the firm is certified to perform, and under 49 CFR 26.31(d) the directory must be searchable by physical location, NAICS code and work description.

Then comes the sentence that cuts against every seller, including this one. 49 CFR 26.31(d) requires the directory to carry "a prominently displayed disclaimer ( e.g., large type, bold font) that states the information within the directory is not a guarantee of the DBE's capacity and ability to perform work". A certification is evidence of who owns and controls a firm. Capacity is a separate question, answered by references, by a walk of the property and by past work, and Rare Earth Ltd would rather a buyer test capacity directly than infer it from a directory entry.

The certification is held and the certification is current. Whether participation by a certified firm counts toward a goal on a particular contract is decided by that contract's own terms and by the rules of the agency funding it, and the federal picture changed in 2025 when the United States Department of Transportation issued an interim final rule that suspended DBE goal-counting. A contractor telling a prime that a subcontract will satisfy a federal DBE goal is making a representation about federal program rules, which is a different and far more consequential kind of statement than naming a certification.

So the line Rare Earth Ltd holds is narrow and deliberate. Rare Earth Ltd will state that the certification is held, name the issuing program, and point at the directory entry. Rare Earth Ltd will not tell a prime that using the firm satisfies a goal until the solicitation and the funding source have been read. A prime that discovers at award that assumed participation credit does not apply has a participation problem, and the cost of that discovery falls on the prime rather than on the sub that oversold.

E-Verify describes itself precisely: "E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares information entered by an employer from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to records available to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to confirm employment eligibility." Note where the process starts. E-Verify does not replace Form I-9, because the process begins with a completed Form I-9 and draws its inputs from it. An employer creates a case, receives an initial result, and closes the case, with the case created no later than the third business day after the employee starts work for pay.

Georgia turns that enrollment into a procurement document. Under Georgia Administrative Code Section 300-10-1-.02, the state's verification requirements applied "On or after July 1, 2007, to public employers, contractors, or subcontractors of 500 or more employees", then "On or after July 1, 2008" to those of 100 or more employees, and "On or after July 1, 2009, to all other public employers, their contractors, or subcontractors". The headcount phase-in has therefore run out: for a Georgia public contract, size no longer decides whether the rule reaches a contractor.

Georgia Administrative Code Section 300-10-1-.03 requires a contractor to give the public employer an executed affidavit documenting participation in the federal work authorization program and its employee-count category, and to obtain the same attestation from its subcontractors. Section 300-10-1-.07 sets out the affidavit itself, which verifies compliance with O.C.G.A. 13-10-91 and states the program user identification number together with the date of authorization. That is the whole reason two data points matter rather than a general claim of enrollment: Rare Earth Ltd carries E-Verify company identification number 2748681, authorized July 28, 2025, and both go on the affidavit.

What an E-Verify number does not do is worth stating as plainly. An E-Verify number is not a certification, not a clearance, and says nothing about any individual worker on a particular crew. An E-Verify number records that the employer is enrolled in the program and when.

Under Georgia Administrative Code Section 590-7-4-.03(1), "Each corporation that is on file with the Secretary of State and registered to do business in this state shall, between January 1 and April 1 of each year, file an annual registration with the Commissioner." Section 590-7-4-.03(2) fixes when the obligation attaches: the registration "is due as of January 1 of any calendar year in which a corporation exists or is qualified to transact business in the State of Georgia". A corporation that applies for voluntary dissolution or withdrawal inside that window still owes the registration and the fee for the year.

Failure to file has a stated consequence. Georgia Administrative Code Section 590-7-4-.10 provides that a corporation that fails to file its annual registration with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation in accordance with the provisions of Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated". The rule says "may be subjected", so a missed filing does not dissolve an entity automatically, and a buyer reading a status field should treat the status as the fact rather than infer one from a late filing.

Two limits on that subject are worth carrying into a vendor file. Subject 590-7-4 governs corporations, and limited liability companies sit under a parallel subject, so a page or a checklist that presents one subject as reaching every entity type is wrong. Separately, an annual registration is not a business license and not an occupational tax certificate; a local jurisdiction issues those, and the two are routinely conflated in onboarding forms that ask for one and mean the other.

Georgia regulates the certificate form directly. Georgia Administrative Code Subject 120-2-103, the Rules of the Commissioner of Insurance on Certificates of Insurance, exists to "establish guidelines, procedures and best business practices for the issuance and delivery of property and casualty certificates of insurance in the State of Georgia", promulgated under O.C.G.A. sections 33-2-9 and 33-24-19.1(p). Section 120-2-103-.04 defines a certificate of insurance as a document issued by an insurer or producer as evidence of property or casualty coverage, and defines a certificate holder as a person other than the policyholder who requests or possesses one.

Section 120-2-103-.05 requires the certificate to carry this statement: "This certificate of insurance is issued as a matter of information only and confers no rights upon the certificate holder. This certificate does not amend, extend or alter the coverage, terms exclusions and conditions afforded by the policies referenced herein." Section 120-2-103-.07 goes further and prohibits a certificate that "purports to affirmatively or negatively amend, extend, modify or alter in any way the coverage", adding that "A certificate of insurance shall not confer to a certificate holder new or additional rights" beyond what the referenced policy expressly provides.

The enforcement runs against the issuer, not the contractor. Under Section 120-2-103-.08, a violation of the subject carries "a fine not to exceed $5,000 per violation", and Section 120-2-103-.03 applies the regulation to "all certificate holders, policyholders, insurers, insurance producers, and certificate of insurance forms". A property manager who believes a certificate has given the property additional-insured rights, or extended a policy term, is relying on something the regulation forbids the certificate from doing. The document that grants rights is the policy and its endorsements, and a buyer who needs a right should ask for the endorsement.

According to the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, State Purchasing Division, in document SPD-SP048, Insurance and Bonding Guidelines, dated November 2015, the standard limits for goods and ancillary services list Commercial General Liability at an each-occurrence limit of $1,000,000, a personal and advertising injury limit of $1,000,000, a general aggregate of $2,000,000 and a products and completed operations aggregate of $2,000,000, with automobile liability at a combined single limit of $1,000,000 and umbrella liability at $2,000,000. Workers compensation appears as "Statutory Limits - required in all contracts".

Carry the document's own qualifiers, because they are the difference between a citation and a bluff. The Georgia Department of Administrative Services calls these recommended minimum insurance limits and says the categories and limits "are to be used as guidelines and are indicative of best practices but are not exhaustive. Your insurance needs may be higher (or lower)." The document is dated November 2015 rather than the current year. And the document has no pressure washing or exterior cleaning category at all: Custodial Services and Landscaping / Lawn Care are the nearest published analogues, and the Custodial Services entry marks workers compensation "Required for all Contracts" with "NO EXEMPTIONS", which is a rule for custodial procurement rather than a rule for exterior work.

The same document is more useful for its mechanics than for its numbers, and the mechanics are what a private buyer usually forgets to ask for:

• additional insured language, stated as "The vendor shall add the 'State of Georgia, its officers, employees and agents' as an additional insured under the commercial general, automobile and umbrella liability policies"
• cancellation notice, stated as coverage that "shall not be canceled, changed, allowed to lapse, or allowed to expire until thirty (30) calendar days after written notice has been given to the state certificate holder on the certificate of insurance"
• a carrier standard: every policy "must be issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in the State of Georgia, with a minimum AM Best rating of A-, and signed by an authorized agent"
• a delivery deadline: the certificate "shall be furnished no later than ten (10) business days after notification of the State's intent to award a contract"
• eleven items the certificate must provide, including the agent's name, address and telephone number, the insured's name and address, the insurer's name, a description of coverage in standard terminology, the policy period, the limits of liability, the certificate holder's name and address, acknowledgment of notice of cancellation, the agent's signature, and policy exclusions detailed in the comments section
• an environmental impairment liability addition where "herbicide, fungicide, pesticide or other chemical application is involved", under the landscaping and lawn care category

A buyer who asks for those six mechanics gets a more useful answer than a buyer who asks only for a limit, because the limit is a number on a form and the endorsement is the thing that performs.

Every limit quoted in this section belongs to the State of Georgia's guidance for the vendors the state buys from. No figure in this section describes a policy held by Rare Earth Ltd, and no figure on this website does.

The limits published in the section above are the State of Georgia's recommendations for its own vendors and describe no policy of ours. General liability is the coverage carried. Rare Earth Ltd does not carry workers compensation, does not carry commercial auto, does not carry umbrella or excess liability, and does not carry professional liability. A buyer whose contract template requires any of those four should read that as a fit question to resolve before scoping rather than a detail to reconcile at award, and Rare Earth Ltd would rather lose the pursuit at the paperwork stage than at the certificate stage.

The workers compensation question deserves buyer education rather than a first-party claim, so here is the rule as the state writes it. According to the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation, every employer "regularly employing three or more persons, part-time or full time, shall provide workers' compensation insurance coverage". The Board adds a sentence that catches people out: "Exempted officers of corporations or exempted members of limited liability companies shall not reduce the number of employees for this purpose." An exemption election filed under O.C.G.A. 34-9-2.1 removes that member's own coverage, not that member from the headcount, so a firm counting to three should count the exempt member too.

A second Georgia rule explains why a buyer verifies coverage upstream of the crew. The Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation writes that "A contractor who is subject to the Workers' Compensation Law, who sublets any part of his or her contract work to a subcontractor, may be liable for coverage for the employees of the subcontractor if the subcontractor has not obtained workers' compensation insurance coverage." The statute behind that, O.C.G.A. 34-9-8, reaches a principal, intermediate or subcontractor, and subsection (d) limits it to premises on which the principal contractor has undertaken work or which are otherwise under that contractor's control. A buyer should take the application of that section to their own counsel rather than to a contractor's website.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the purpose of the form is to "Use Form W-9 to provide your correct Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) to the person who is required to file an information return with the IRS", covering income payments and several other reportable categories. Direction matters here: a Form W-9 is furnished to the requester, and the contractor completing one does not file it with the Internal Revenue Service.

The consequence sits with the payer. The Internal Revenue Service states that "There are situations when the payer is required to withhold at the current rate of 24 percent", and one of them arises under the BWH-B program "because you failed to provide a correct taxpayer identification number (TIN) to the payer for reporting on the required information return". Backup withholding is therefore an obligation of the payer rather than a fine on the contractor, which is why an accounts payable team chases a W-9 harder than a contractor expects. The 24 percent figure is the rate the Internal Revenue Service publishes as current, and the rate has moved before, standing at 28 percent prior to the 2017 Act.

Rare Earth Ltd supplies a completed Form W-9 in the vendor packet rather than on request after the first invoice, because a missing W-9 stalls a payment run and a stalled payment run is the most avoidable friction in a new vendor relationship.

What the packet contains:

• a completed Form W-9 in the legal entity name, Rare Earth Ltd
• a certificate of insurance for general liability, issued to the certificate holder the buyer names
• the DBE and ACDBE certification documents from the Georgia Unified Certification Program
• the MBE certificate, naming the certifying body
• the SAM entity record details, including CAGE 9JAV8 and UEI Z4WKS4UE8NJ6
• the E-Verify company identification number and authorization date, in the form the Georgia contractor affidavit asks for
• a capability statement naming the scopes Rare Earth Ltd performs and the NAICS codes those scopes sit under

What the packet does not contain, stated so nobody has to ask twice:

• no surety bond and no bonding capacity letter, because Rare Earth Ltd holds no surety bond
• no HUBZone or 8(a) award letter, because both are applications awaiting an SBA decision, and no SOC 2 report
• no certificate for workers compensation, commercial auto, umbrella or professional liability, because those coverages are not carried
• no coverage limits published on this website; a limit appears on the certificate issued to the named holder, which is where a limit belongs
• no first-party price, because a number follows a walk of the property and a written scope, not a web page

Insurance evidence travels as a certificate rather than as a directory link for a structural reason: a certification sits in a public registry maintained by the certifying body, and a policy does not. That is why every certification row in the table above points at a registry and the insurance row points at a document.

• the exact certificate holder name and address your file requires, spelled as your system stores it, because a certificate naming the management company when the file wants the ownership entity is a certificate that gets rejected
• the endorsements your contract template actually requires, named as endorsements rather than as a limit, since Section 120-2-103-.07 forbids the certificate from creating a right the policy does not grant
• your onboarding portal, if you use one, plus whether a supplier record already exists under Rare Earth Ltd or under Thrare Contracting
• whether the work is a public contract, because a public contract pulls in the Georgia contractor affidavit and its user identification number and authorization date

Rare Earth Ltd will name a coverage or a certification it does not hold as soon as a requirement surfaces, rather than after a scope is written, and will say when a solicitation is a poor fit, because a no at the paperwork stage costs a buyer an email and a no at the award stage costs a buyer a schedule.

Does Rare Earth Ltd hold HUBZone, 8(a) or SOC 2?

Rare Earth Ltd does not hold any of the three today. HUBZone and 8(a) are in pursuit: applications filed with the U.S. Small Business Administration and awaiting a decision, and every place they appear on this site says exactly that. SOC 2 is outside the current record. Where a solicitation requires one of the three as a condition of award, eligibility follows the certificate rather than the application.

Is Rare Earth Ltd bonded?

No. Rare Earth Ltd holds no surety bond, so a solicitation requiring a bid bond, a payment bond or a performance bond is one Rare Earth Ltd answers as a subcontractor to a bonded prime rather than as prime. Naming that early is cheaper for both sides than discovering it at the bid deadline.

What insurance does Rare Earth Ltd carry?

Rare Earth Ltd carries general liability insurance and issues a certificate of insurance to a named holder on request. Rare Earth Ltd does not carry workers compensation, commercial auto, umbrella or professional liability. Coverage limits are not published on this website; a limit appears on the certificate issued to the certificate holder a buyer names.

Does a certificate of insurance give our property additional-insured rights?

No, and Georgia's rule on certificates says so directly. Section 120-2-103-.05 requires the certificate to state that it "is issued as a matter of information only and confers no rights upon the certificate holder", and Section 120-2-103-.07 provides that a certificate "shall not confer to a certificate holder new or additional rights" beyond what the referenced policy expressly provides. A right comes from a policy endorsement, so ask for the endorsement.

Where do we verify the DBE certification without asking you?

In the Georgia Unified Certification Program directory, which is public by regulation. 49 CFR 26.81(g) requires each Unified Certification Program to maintain a unified DBE directory and to make it available to the public on the internet, updated as changes are made, and 49 CFR 26.31(d) requires the directory to be searchable by physical location, NAICS code and work description.

Does using a certified DBE subcontractor earn our contract DBE credit?

That depends on the specific solicitation and the agency rules that fund it, and Rare Earth Ltd will not answer it for a contract it has not read. The United States Department of Transportation issued an interim final rule in 2025 that suspended DBE goal-counting, so a contractor promising that a subcontract satisfies a federal DBE goal is making a representation about program rules rather than about its own certification.

Does a listing in the DBE directory prove you can handle the volume?

No, and the regulation creating the directory says as much. 49 CFR 26.31(d) requires a prominently displayed disclaimer stating that the information in the directory "is not a guarantee of the DBE's capacity and ability to perform work". Capacity is tested by references, a walk of the property and past work, which is the test Rare Earth Ltd prefers a buyer apply.

Why do you send an E-Verify number and an authorization date rather than a yes?

Because Georgia asks for both on a notarized affidavit. Georgia Administrative Code Section 300-10-1-.07 sets out a contractor affidavit that verifies compliance with O.C.G.A. 13-10-91 and states the federal work authorization program user identification number together with the date of authorization. Rare Earth Ltd carries E-Verify company identification number 2748681, authorized July 28, 2025.

Does an E-Verify enrollment replace Form I-9?

No. E-Verify states that the system "compares information entered by an employer from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification" against Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration records, and the process begins with a completed Form I-9. An E-Verify case is created no later than the third business day after an employee starts work for pay.

How do we confirm the legal entity is current in Georgia?

Through the Georgia Secretary of State business search. Georgia Administrative Code Section 590-7-4-.03(1) requires each corporation on file with the Secretary of State to file an annual registration between January 1 and April 1 of each year, and Section 590-7-4-.10 provides that a corporation failing to file with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation". An annual registration is not a business license and not an occupational tax certificate.

CAGE code definition: Federal Acquisition Regulation clause 52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting, effective August 2020. Read 2026-09-03.

Unique entity identifier definition: Federal Acquisition Regulation provision 52.204-6, Unique Entity Identifier, page current 03/13/2026. Read 2026-09-03.

Unique Entity ID format, and the April 4, 2022 transition: U.S. General Services Administration, Unique Entity ID (SAM) Frequently Asked Questions. Read 2026-09-03.

DBE definition, certification program and directory disclaimer: 49 CFR Part 26, sections 26.5, 26.31 and 26.81, read through the eCFR versioner at the 2026-09-01 snapshot. Read 2026-09-03.

ACDBE definition: 49 CFR 23.3, airport concession program definitions. Read 2026-09-03.

What E-Verify is, and the Form I-9 sequence: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, E-Verify, What is E-Verify (page last updated 10/24/2024) and Verification Process (page last updated 09/15/2022). Read 2026-09-03.

Georgia's E-Verify requirement for public contracts: Georgia Administrative Code, Rules of the Georgia Department of Labor, Subject 300-10-1, promulgated under O.C.G.A. 13-10-91. Read 2026-09-03.

Annual registration and administrative dissolution: Georgia Administrative Code, Rules of the Secretary of State, Subject 590-7-4, Corporations, Annual Registration. Read 2026-09-03.

Certificates of insurance, required statement, prohibited practices and penalties: Georgia Administrative Code, Rules of the Commissioner of Insurance, Subject 120-2-103, Certificates of Insurance, promulgated under O.C.G.A. sections 33-2-9 and 33-24-19.1(p). Read 2026-09-03.

Recommended vendor insurance limits and certificate mechanics: Georgia Department of Administrative Services, State Purchasing Division, Insurance and Bonding Guidelines, SPD-SP048, dated November 2015. Read 2026-09-03.

Workers compensation threshold and the subcontractor coverage rule: Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation, Employer Information, and O.C.G.A. 34-9-8. Read 2026-09-03.

Form W-9 and backup withholding: Internal Revenue Service, About Form W-9 and Backup Withholding. Read 2026-09-03.

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