Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg WV 26101-5312

R -- MAIL PROCESSING SERVICES POC Point of Contact, Rebecca Thompson, 304/480-7974, Contracting Officer, Sherlyn West, 304/480-3505 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt intends to acquire, on a sole source basis, mail processing services in San Francisco, CA, from International Mail Prosessing. The mail processing services will be for customer agencies of a Franchise Business Activity (FBA) Coooperative Administration Support Unit (CASU) consortium. The resulting simplified acquisition order will provide various consolidated mail functions. The services may include one or more of the following: delivery point barcode, combine and presort of First and Periodic Class Mail, metering of non-qualifying First, Standard, and Periodic Class, certified/registered mail, and First and Periodic Class Bulk Rate Permit mail. Firms must submit a description of their proposal in sufficient technical detail to substantiate the ability of any alternative service to meet all these requirements. If no affirmative written response is received within 15 days after publication of this notice to the effect that a comparable service is available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining the service through the proposed contractor, a sole-source award will be made. No solicitation document is available. Requests for a solicitation document will not be considered an affirmative response. (0253)

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