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R -- FORECASTING AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE SOL 102590-00-A-0009 DUE 102999 POC Cheryl W. Buchanan, (202) 268-4218 WEB: BOB, http://www.purchasing.gov. E-MAIL: cbuchana@email.usps.gov, cbuchana@email.usps.gov. The United States Postal Service (USPS) seeks a supplier to; provide access to economic models, data bases, and software, as listed in the Statement of Work, to support the economic analysis requirements of the USPS; maintain, update, and revise models which forecast mail volume by class and other measures of Postal Service workload for aggregations of three-digit ZIP codes, and models to forecast the demographic and economic varibles that influence mail volume growth -- population by age, households by age of head, households by size, and households by income class for all 3-digit ZIP codes in the United States; and provide economic analysis of compensation of Postal Service and comparable private sector workers for use in Postal Service labor negotiations and arbitration proceedings, and to provide expert witness testimony in such proceedings as needed. The solicitation may be found on the USPS web at http://www.purchasing.gov at the BOB (Business Opportunity Bullentin) site. Posted 10/08/99 (W-SN390459). (0281)

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