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B -- EVALUATION AND RATING OF USPS SAFETY & HEALTH PROGRAMS NATIONWIDE SOL 102590-00-A-0001 DUE 111599 POC Richard E. Batts (Please e-mail: rbatts@email.usps.gov) 202 268-3935 WEB: Business Opportunity Bulletin (BOB), http://www.purchasing.gov. E-MAIL: Please contact Richard E. Batts via e-mail., rbatts@email.usps.gov. The United States Postal Service places a strong emphasis on the safety and health programs that are implemented in the more than 39,000 postal facilities nationwide. For this reason, an evaluation tool, such as the Safety and Health Program Evaluation Guide is necessary to rate the safety and health programs in randomly chosen facilities. The Program Evaluation Guide (PEG), including interview questions and a scoring worksheet is being modeled on OSHA's Program Evaluation Profile (PEP). The purpose of the contract is to purchase services to use the Safety and Health PEG to rate safety and health programs within the Postal Service by conducting audits of randomly chosen facilities within each of 85 Performance Clusters of the Postal Service organization. The Supplier must offer a Random Sampling Plan. The objective is to accomplish the following: 1. randomly select three facilities in each PC from the identified population of processing and distribution plants, bulk mail centers, air mail centers, vehicle maintenance facilities, and level 24 and above post offices (A total of 251 site evaluations will be completed); 2. evaluate the selected facilities using the Postal Services' Safety and Health PEG and score the facilities using the criteria identified in the Scoring section; 3. average the three evaluated facility scores to obtain the PC's overall score, average all PC's scores within an area to attain the area score, and average all area scores to attain the national score . The PEG score of three and achievement of the Lost Workday Injury rate are necessary to receive the Economic Value Added (EVA) compensation established for these indicators. The most important evaluation criteria in selecting a source for award of the contract is Management and Staffing Plan. The second most important and highly evaluation technical evaluation criteria is Corporate Capability, which requires demonstrated qualifications and resources that will assure timely delivery of credible out-put. To be favorably considered forthis criteria, the Offeror must accomplish the following: (1) Generally; the offeror must; (a) Identify, explain, describe the procedures, techniques used to identify the proper lot size, and sample size. (b) State the level of accuracy, precision of such procedures, techniques. (c) Identify the specific locations to be evaluated, and evaluative tools to be used. (2) Scheduling; the offeror must; (a) Schedule each facility for evaluation, including; Staffing, (b) State the period of time during which the evaluation will be conducted; (c) Identify the mechanisms, tools, computer software, etc., to be used to process the accumulated data; (d) Describe the types and contents of reports to be provided that reflect the data collected, analyses made, and conclusions drawn from the data. Also, regarding staffing qualifications, the Supplier must develop and provide with the proposal a description of the minimum qualifications for each offered category of labor, and such levels shall be based upon the consideration of the following: (1) Demonstrated successful performance or aptitude, evidenced by; (a) Utilization of Safety Evaluation tools, techniques, procedure in Safety program assessment, (i) individually, (ii) as team participant, (iii) as team leader, (iv) as project director; (2) The number of different projects; (3) The Broadness of safety applications, and safety program assessment activities; (4) Months of experience as one or more of the above. (5) Magnitude of prior effort supported, in terms of: (i) size of project, (ii) dollars, (iii) personnel; (iv) Type of effort; product/supply intensive (v) personnel/service, (vi) Education and Training. The final evaluation factor is Past Performance, which addresses Supplier's experience in the performance of similar services on a similar scale. To obtained the RFP, go to USPS Purchasing Website http://www.purchasing.gov. Offerors needing guidance in obtaining a copy of the solicitation or having questions relating it, must submit an e-mail request, to rbatts@email.usps.gov. The e-mail request must provide the name, address, telephone and telefax numbers of the company requesting the solicitation, and the name of the offeror's contract person. Those who, after reviewing the solicitation, intend to submit an offer must send an e-mail message to rbatts@email.usps.gov indicating such by October 27, 1999. Posted 10/13/99 (W-SN391237). (0286)

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