79 -- INVITATION TO PRE-QUALIFY

Notice Date

March 23, 2001

Contracting Office

United States Postal Service, Supplies and Services Purchasing, Dallas PMSC, PO Box 667190, Dallas, TX, 75266-7190

ZIP Code

75266-7190

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-01a00002

Response Due

April 16, 2001

Point of Contact

Steve Carpenter, Purchasing Specialist, Phone (214) 819-7115, Fax (214) 819-7125, Email scarpent@email.usps.gov -- Dan Davisson, Purchasing Specialist, Phone (214) 819-7116, Fax (214) 819-7125, Email

E-Mail Address

Steve Carpenter (scarpent@email.usps.gov)

Description

This is an invitation to pre-qualify. This is not a request for proposals (RFP). All interested parties are encouraged to participate. The U. S. Postal Service, in anticipation of issuing a solicitation for the acquisition of custodial products for the Postal Service on a national basis, is seeking to pre-qualify a limited number of qualified suppliers. As a result of the solicitation, multiple awards are anticipated. The subsequent contracts will require suppliers to provide the Postal Service with a full range of custodial products, including Javits-Wagner-O_Day (JWOD) Act products, to all Postal locations in the forty-eight contiguous United States, as well as Alaska, Hawaii and its related islands, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The contracts will also require suppliers to design and implement cost reduction processes throughout the supply chain, applying the principles of Supply Chain Management (SCM). The Postal Service anticipates that the contracts will initially require suppliers have a current presence on the Internet with on-line ordering and electronic file transfer capabilities. Ultimately, the preferred method of doing business will be to utilize electronic data interchange (EDI) through the Postal Service_s internal Web-Based Purchasing System. Suppliers will provide and maintain an electronic catalog hosted on the Postal Web-Based Purchasing System. Orders placed through the system by Postal buyers will be passed electronically to the supplier. Invoicing/payment will be accomplished through the use of the General Services Administration (GSA) SmartPay Card (VISA) or electronically, using a unique, postal provided, customer delivery address (FEDSTRIP) number. As all Postal buyers do not have Internet access, the supplier must also provide traditional ordering methods including Internet, mail, phone, and fax. Suppliers will be required to submit monthly and quarterly reports and to provide and coordinate all product and customer service training. The contracts will also require suppliers, if not small businesses, to provide a sub-contracting plan that addresses sub-contracting with small, minority and woman-owned businesses. Suppliers seeking placement on the pre-qualified list must demonstrate that they possess the financial, technical, organizational and managerial resources, and have the experience, operational capability, and quality assurance programs necessary to perform a national contract of this size and scope. Only fifty (50) printed copies of the invitation package are available for mailing. This is not a request for proposals (RFP).

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Record

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