Pernix Group Inc. announced that the U.S. Department of State recently issued a full notice to proceed for the U.S. Embassy rehabilitation project in Niamey, Niger with an estimated value of $26.3 million. Received on July 10, 2012, the full notice to proceed from the U.S. Department of State Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) enables full-scale on-site execution to bring this mission-critical project to an on-time and on-budget completion.