Department of State, Office of Acquisition, P. O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, VA 22219-0244

70 -- DIGITAL PASSPORT PRINTERS SOL S-OPRAQ-97-R-0054 DUE 051597 POC Contact: J.L. Welch (703)875-6746/ Contracing Officer: R.B. Wissman (703)875-6059 The Department of State intends to procure digital passport printers, associated printer and passport document consumables, maintenance associated support for use in its fifteen passport agencies. The Department seeks to replace its current multi-step process of mounting and laminating photographs in passports with a modern, reliable passport printing technology for producing, in one step, a secure passport data page containing a digital version of the passport photograph and associated text directly in the United States passport book. The approach sought would eliminate the need for any die cutting, laminating or further assembly and would provide enhanced security for the United States passport by minimizing or eliminating the ability to substitute a photograph without detection. The approach must meet the stringent security and operating requirements of the Department of State for its domestic and overseas passport issuance operations as described in the specifications listed below, all of which must be met: a) must permit the insertion of a blank passport book directly into the printer and must output a completely finished passport within 120 seconds. Acompletely finished passport by definition must need no further lamination, assemblr or dire-cutting. b) the data page must become destroyed and rendered not reuseable upon attempts to alter or remove the photograph and/or data from the passport book. c) must be able to be deployed to produce identical end products at large volume (3,000,000 units annually) sites for centralized printing, at small volume (under 30,000 units annually) sites decentralized passport agencies, and for one-at-a-time emergency passport issuance situations in stand alone configurations. d) must be able to be integrated into the current passport issuance system at each agency, which operates under TCP/IP in a PC/LAN environment. e) must not produce an insert-type data page requiring a subsequent lamination process of any kind outside of the printer to attach the insert to the passport book. f) must produce a high quality photo-like image of the passport bearer in both color and black-and-white. g) must produce passports which meet all requirements for machine readable passports as specified by the Internation Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Documnet 9303. h) the printer and its consumables must be fully developed products and must be immediately available for delivery. Evaluation of responsive offers will include a pre-qualifying evaluation, and operational printer demonstration and testing of passport sample documents, and and operational capability test of the offered configuration in a production test environment. The contract awarded is anticipated to be a Fixed-Price, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with a Base Year and 4 Options Years. Only written requests for the solicitation will be accepted, no telephone calls. SEE NTOES 12 & 26. (0108)

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