USPS Seeking Vendor to Replace Manual Distribution

November 13, 2008 by
Filed under: fedbizopp, outsourcing, postal, usps 

Residual Mail Processing Sources Sought

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is seeking to obtain information on potential strategic sources for developing, acquiring, and managing a system to automate the processing of residual letter and flat volumes. These residual letter mail and flat mail volumes manifest themselves as current letter and flat automation rejects or non-automation compatible mailpieces. The new system will replace the current manual distribution processes of sorting letter and flat rejects or non-automation compatible mailpieces. Respondents to this Sources Sought Notice are requested to submit “white papers” on their approach or solution for the automation of residual letter and flat volumes.

Companies must describe their system concept, its technical and functional feasibility and capability of going from prototype to production to deployment. At a minimal your white paper must depict how your company will accomplish the following:

1. Process all letter and flat mail residual volumes, without regard to physical mailpiece shape, height, width, weight and condition. Provide an automated volume input method, that may include an operator assisted input function.

2. Derive finest depth-of-code address data for individual residual mail pieces. As a minimum, the following mail piece data will be determined: finalized ZIP Code data based upon the delivery address. 3. Uniquely identify – via tag info – each mailpiece processed. 4. Accept sort plan data from the National Directory Support System (NDSS). 5. Provide sortation depth to the carrier park point or relay point (as available in the national DPF file. 6. Shall not create reject / subsequent handling residual pieces. 7. Include a Video Encoding workstation. 8. Contain Undeliverable -as-Addressed handling capability

The Respondents to this Sources Sought Notice are reminded that responses to this notice are not considered offers and will not be accepted by the Postal Service to form a binding contract. In addition, the Postal Service will not incur any monetary obligation associated with this Sources Sought Notice or any responses thereto.

source: Federal Business Opportunties

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  1. LittleRedRidingHood on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 11:36 am

    2. You heard it here first:
    A vendor from Southern Alabama has developed a
    unique response to the USPS request for proposals.
    They propose to locate large buildings in most
    major cities to house large numbers of “individual
    contractors” who will sort the non-machinable mail
    on a “piece rate” basis…they have already asked
    the INS for several hundred thousand immigrant
    work visas and anticipate being able to provide
    this solution to the USPS on short notice.
    This vendor projects that the savings provided to
    the Postal Service will be in the billions of
    dollars.
    It has been said that the Bush Administration is
    keenly interested in this vendors solution as a
    possible alternative to many services that the
    Federal Government already provides, but have
    become increasingly expensive to provide using
    Federal workers of late.

  2. O Bam YoMama on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 12:46 pm

    3. obama has a huge number of illegals plus citizens from the ghettos ready to step up. His plan to get the minimum and maximum wage at $7 (before kickbacks) is well known. All must be willing to donate 10 hours a week to pleasing pelosi & reid (and any others that tell him what to do). 38 huge black racists must be available to please his ugly racist wife daily as part of the contract.

  3. Borat on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 12:55 pm

    4. You guys are full of ————-!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Bush can’t sell a hot dog right now.
    Lame Duck Bush.

  4. Pafnuty on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 1:37 pm

    5. I wonder if the number of comments will go down when Bush leaves office. Will you all even bother to write in if you can’t mention W? What the hell does he have to do with this story?

  5. outtahere on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 1:50 pm

    6. o bam yomama you are the racist dog. you people, go back to where ever your ancestor’s came from, probably some european cave & don’t forget your hood & sheet. you people stole this country and natural resources from all over the world, bullies. you represent greed, thievery,trickery & pure ignorance personified. your daddy… bush & his cronies have ran the country in the ground. it’s a new day, deal with it or leave the country. your kind are not welcome here. power to the people.

  6. Borat on Fri, 14th Nov 2008 6:55 am

    7. Hey Pafnuty can’t you read. Oh you must be one
    of those great managers that usps has.
    You Dumb ____________!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. You're retarded on Fri, 14th Nov 2008 7:29 am

    8. yes you are…

  8. Concerned postal worker on Sun, 16th Nov 2008 3:01 pm

    9. With the USPS downsizing,outsourcing,automation leading to a smaller work force. Eventually lay offs are coming. Bulk mail centers might be outsourced. The revenue from bulk mail goes into funding our pay checks. USPS privitization might be around the corner! Human resources & OPM do not know what might happen to are retirement and health benefits. Private companies that go under or who are bought out. Their retiree and work force lose their retirement and health benefits. Will USPS do things differently? A TSP customer service agent told me they were almost certain that our TSP can not be taken away from us. My union can not provide any answers. Does any one know at least if are TSP will be safe?

  9. Scott on Sat, 22nd Nov 2008 9:34 pm

    10. Don’t worry about your tsp account—the stock market will take care of that