The United States Department of the Treasury's United States Mint has awarded Artazn LLC, a subsidiary of Zinc-Polymer Holdings, LLC, an indefinite delivery contract with a potential value of $500,000,000 to provide copper-plated zinc (CPZ) blanks and planchets for the production of circulating and commemorative coins. The contract has a 4-year base period through March 2024 and the Mint has issued numerous firm fixed price delivery orders against this vehicle, ranging in value from around $18,000 to over $13 million, for periods of performance from 1 month up to 1 year. Artazn, as the prime contractor, will deliver the CPZ blanks to the Mint's production facility in Greeneville, Tennessee where they will be used to mint circulating and commemorative coinage. The contract does not have any set-aside designations, and the Mint utilizes this indefinite delivery contract vehicle to maintain a steady supply of the CPZ blanks and planchets needed as raw material inputs for minting United States coinage.
The original sources sought notice indicated the Mint's annual requirements for CPZ penny planchets are between 2.5 to 5 billion pieces. The notice sought information from interested parties capable of manufacturing the planchets to the Mint's technical specifications. This pre-solicitation provided early market research for a potential multi-year requirements contract to support the Mint's coin production operations, though the final contract award was not made until November 2020.
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