Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), Acquisition Support Branch, 1 Columbus Circle, NE, Room 4-513, Washington, DC 20544

D -- APPELLATE SLIP OPINIONS PRINTING SERVICES Sol. USCA-96-R-SO8. Contact, Linda L. Round, Contracting Officer, 202/273-2700. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is conducting a competitive procurement to acquire contractor services for typesetting, printing, copying, and distribution of Judges' slip opinions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit located in St. Louis, MO. Offerors must be able to receive daily electronic transmissions of court opinions in WordPerfect format; typeset, print, and copy the opinions according to Government provided specifications; distribute copies of the opinions to the court and court provided mailing lists at times and in quantities specified; provide diskettes with both ASCII and WordPerfect 5.1 versions of the opinions to the court along with the court's copies of the opinions; and other related services. The court will render approximately 520 opinions in Fiscal Year 1996 which will amount to a total of approximately 11,000 original pages. For each separate opinion, approximately 465 copies are required to satisfy the needs of the court and its subscribers. The resulting contract will be a firm fixed-price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The term of the contract will be one year with options for the Government to extend four additional one-year periods. Award will be made to a single offeror whose proposal is technically acceptable and offers the lowest cost to this Government. There is currently an incumbent contractor who is not prohibited from competing under this solicitation. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered. Requests for the solicitation may be made via facsimile transmission to (202) 273-2720, but must be followed up by hard copy signed letter. Requests to be included on the Bidders Mailing List should be received no later than 15 days from date of this synopsis and must reference Solicitation No. USCA-96-R-SO8. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. (026)

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