1-Cent Planchets

The Department of the Treasury United States Mint established a single-award Master IDIQ for one-cent copper-plated zinc (CPZ) planchets on March 1, 2010, with ordering closed as of December 31, 2014. This vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

Artazn LLC holds the sole prime contract under this vehicle. The Mint issued 77 task orders over the vehicle's four-year ordering window, averaging roughly 15 orders per year between 2010 and 2014. All 77 orders have been obligated at the full combined potential value of $309.4 million, leaving no remaining capacity. The vehicle funded exclusively United States Mint operations—all task orders named the Mint as the customer agency.

Task order scope centered on the supply of one-cent circulating planchets in varying compositions. Most orders called for base metal and strip for circulating coinage, with individual order values typically ranging from $2 million to $9 million. Representative orders included TMHQ10C0026-0076 ($7.4 million, December 2014), TMHQ10C0026-0067 ($8.85 million, May 2014), and TMHQ10C0026-0045 ($7.3 million, February 2013). The portfolio also included smaller orders for uncirculated and proof planchets, alternative metal samples, nickel-plated variants, and fuel surcharges. Two orders addressed the sorting of mutilated or obsolete one-cent coinage.

All task orders carried firm-fixed-price pricing, with three orders using fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment structures. The vehicle operated under no set-aside designation; all orders were unrestricted competitive awards to a single prime.

This is a Single award IDIQ. The Purpose of this Contract is to Provide 1-Cent CPZ Planchets (Circualting, Un-Circulating and Proof).