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B-415228 1 (2017-11-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtyr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: A-Z Cleaning Solutions File: B-415228 Date: November 6, 2017 David A. Rose, Esq., The Rose Consulting Law Firm, LLC, for the protester. Elizabeth Young, Esq., Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST The United States Mint, a federal agency within the Department of the Treasury, is not subject to the Government Accountability Office's bid protest jurisdiction under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, because the Mint is statutorily exempt from all federal procurement laws and regulations. DECISION A-Z Cleaning Solutions, of Pittsburg, California, protests the award of a contract to Clean Solutions Services, Inc., of San Francisco, California, under solicitation No. USM- SF-1 7-0004 issued by the Department of the Treasury, United States Mint for janitorial and laundry services in San Francisco. The protester contends that the agency erred in its evaluation of proposals and in its best-value tradeoff decision. We dismiss the protest for lack of jurisdiction. The United States Mint, an agency within the United States Department of the Treasury, asserts that it is statutorily exempt from our bid protest jurisdiction, and therefore this protest should be dismissed. We agree. Under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA), our Office has jurisdiction to resolve bid protests concerning solicitations and contract awards that are issued by a Federal agency. 31 U.S.C. § 3551(1). CICA provides that the term Federal agency has the meaning given in 40 U.S.C. § 102. 31 U.S.C.A. § 3551(3). Section 102 of Title 40 defines the term Federal agency as including any executive agency, which is defined as any executive department or independent establishment in the executive branch of the government. 40 U.S.C. § 102(4), (5). The Mint, as part of the