U. S. Postal Service, Headquarters Purchasing, 475 L'Enfant Plaza West SW, Room 7900, Washington, DC 20260-6238

D -- COTS PRODUCT FOR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK ROUTING POC Laurie Hayden,(202) 268-3328, no collect calls. The United States Postal Service is seeking information in the form of a Request for Infromation (RFI) from vendors on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products that will provide transportation network routing, modeling and optimization. The application is intended to support Postal operations planners to reduce costs, improve service, and plan for growth across the national transportation system. The system should accommodate air, sea, rail, truck and intermodal transportation. The system should allow for transportation costs (both Postal and contractor), workload factors, cycle times, route times, and load effficiency factors. Ideally the product will have a flexible configurable capability for optimizing operations to reduce turnaround and cycle times to allow the same transport and labor resources to handle a constantly growing workload. The product should be able to import data from a variety of data sources, so manual data entry will be limited. This RFI is not a solicitation; however, vendors that respond will be informed in the event a solicitation is conducted. The respinse to this RFI should describe the available product, the degree of customization required to meet the general requirements, provide three references and athe number of products sold, the technical architecture of the product. Send all responses to Ms. Laurie Hayden, USPS Headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Rm. 7900, Washington. DC, 20260. Telephone 202-268-3328, fax 202-268-5327. (0158)

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