SOURCES SOUGHT
25 -- The U.S. Postal Service is conducting market research to identify companies with an interest and capability to provide a mail stowage and retrieval system for its delivery fleet of Long-Life Vehicles
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 339999
— All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- United States Postal Service, Supplies and Services Purchasing, Vehicles CMC, PO Box 40592, Philadelphia, PA, 19197-0592, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- REFERENCE-NUMBER-FSS-STOWAGE-SYSTEM
- Response Due
- 1/5/2007
- Archive Date
- 1/20/2007
- Description
- The U.S. Postal Service is conducting market research to identify companies with an interest and capability to provide a mail stowage and retrieval system for its delivery fleet of Long-Life Vehicles (LLV). This will be done in conjunction with implementation of a new Flats Sequencing System (FSS) program whereby large envelopes, magazines, catalogs and circulars will be sorted for letter carriers who must now manually sequence the mail before leaving the office for their routes. As the FSS program is implemented, the plan is to purchase mail stowage and retrieval systems for up to 18,000 LLVs. Deployment would start July 2008 with delivery completed by July 2010. The LLV mail stowage and retrieval system will be used to assist in loading and unloading mail in the delivery sequence of the route. The system should be sufficiently flexible to accommodate all mail trays (letter/flats) and parcels, and light enough to have only minimal impact on the load carrying capacity of the vehicle. An average daily volume of mail handled by a letter carrier will consist of approximately 18 trays of mail (Letter/FSS flat trays) and 12 parcels. During peak volume periods, the daily volume of mail could be 25% to 50% higher on an infrequent basis. The objective of this notice is to identify potential sources as well as to determine what products are in the marketplace that can meet our requirement. This is a request for preliminary information only and is not a solicitation to purchase equipment or services. Please email the following information to either address below: 1. Your company name, address, telephone number(s) and email address. 2. Name of your point of contact. 3. Brief description of your product/design capability. An industry conference will be hosted by the Postal Service on January 30, 2007. The purpose of the conference is to identify and discuss requirements for purchase of the mail stowage and retrieval system. If you are interested in attending the conference, please follow the instructions on the attached conference documents. To be identified as a potential source, you will still need to email your company information to Delores Waters or Mary Ellen Young (email: maryellen.young@.usps.gov, Phone 215-931-5103, Fax 651-675-1518), whether or not you plan to attend the conference.
- Record
- SN01197717-W 20061217/061215223134 (fbodaily.com)
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