US Postal Service, Headquarters Automation Purchasing, 8403 Lee Highway, Merrifield, Virginia 22082-8150

A -- DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF MAIL PROCESSING FACILITY PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POC Pauline C. McTeer,Fax,703-280-8412 E-MAIL: click here to contact the purchasing specialist via, pmcteer@email.usps.gov. The Postal Service is seeking sources and qualification statements from firms who are interested in being considered for development of a process management system to monitor and control, in near real-time, mail processing operations in a Postal facility. The process management system will monitor and display the progress of operations in mail processing cells measuring their progress against a plan. Variations to the plan will be continuously evaluated and projected to determine their effect on the desired outcome. If variations are projected to have undesirable consequences the management system will select and present the appropriate corrective plan to an operator who will initiate the appropriate plan changes. The system is also required to provide additional on-line and off-line functions. These will include the preparation of the detailed processing plans, providing visibility into performance parameters and statistics, providing data on consumed resources to support activity based costing, and maintaining contact with a large variety of interrelated functions and data sources. We are seeking qualification statements from only those firms who can adequately demonstrate the following capabilities: (1) successful past performance in the design and installation of complex process management systems, including a list of contracts within the past three years directly related to this effort. This listing must include a description of each effort, the dollar value, duration, the development tool(s) used, and a point of contact with the current user of the system; (2) the ability to develop and install complex real-time or near real-time control system software, including resumes of at least three of the key personnel in your employment who may be made available for this effort; (3) experience in the development and installation of complex process management systems and related areas such as Manufacturing Messaging Specifications and software development standards, documented by published case histories, brochures, videos. Only those firms who are determined to be qualified will be considered for any resulting contracts. Interested firms should prepare a summary of their qualifications, including the most recent financial statements, not to exceed twenty (20) single-sided pages, which must demonstrate that they possess the capabilities described above. No proprietary information is to be submitted. The qualification statement must be submitted in an original and three (3) copies and in electronic form (MS Word 95 preferred) on a disk, if available, to the address above no later than August 14, 1998. A solicitation is scheduled to be issued in the fall of 1998 to those firms determined to be prequalified for this effort. Posted 07/16/98 (W-SN224566). (0197)

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