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D -- SOFTWARE FOR VEHICLE FLEET, ROUTING, SCHEDULING AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS POC Malvin Beller, 202-268-4152, Purchasing Specialist. The United States Postal Service (USPS) Logistics Systems group is interested in identifying potential vendors who can provide custom built software applications to manage its air, highway, and rail transportation networks. The custom built applications need to address routing, scheduling, optimzation and performance analysis as well as computer generated alert and monitoring systems. Any proposed solutions should have a client/server architecture and run on IBM compatible personal computer systems. The software should include the following functionality: Maintain database of drivers, vehicles, service points, schedules and routes, with capabilities to build/optimize routes within a mode of transportation (highway) and across all modes of transportation; interface via a standard COM collect ASCII data for actual arrival/depature times and content load information for all modes of transportation (truck/rail/air); and provide multiple levels of user privileges allowing different user groups to perform different sets of systems function. System should also include an easy to use report generation utility. The potential vendor must have experience with Windows 95, Windows NT, C++, and Oracle software. Firm interested in providing these services should download the questionnaire from the USPS Homepage at http://www.usps.gov/business/wantad.htm and return to Malvin Beller, via the Internet at mbeller@email.usps.gov or by fax at 202-268-3677, by COB 8/15/96. (0212)

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