Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 700, ATTN: M:P:T:I, Oxon Hill, MD 20745

36 -- MAILSORTING EQUIPMENT FOR IRS SERVICE CENTERS SOL IRS0917 DUE 100297 POC Contracting Officer, Barry Kearns, (202) 283-1103 The Internal Revenue Service is seeking responsible sources interested in providing mailsorting equipment for its 10 service centers. All responses should be addressed to the Contracting Officer listed above. Mail or telefax responses are acceptable. The telefax number is (202) 283-1514. Please provide your responses by October 2, 1997. In your response, please address the following: 1) Provide pricing for a lease-to-purchase plan. The IRS desires to lease the equipment for one year with four one year options. Also include separate pricing for the initial installation and annual maintenance costs; 2) The equipment must be Year 2000 compliant. Please affirmatively state in your response that the equipment meets this requirement; 3) Provide information on whether or not the equipment is currently on GSA Schedule. If so, please provide the schedule number; 4) The IRS intends to lease a minimum of one and a maximum of two machines per service center for a total of 10 to 20 machines. Please provide information on the availability or manufacturing leadtime for the equipment; 5) The IRS requires check detection capability. Please provide information on the check detection capability of the equipment; 6) The IRS, on average, processes approximately 160,000,000 pieces of outgoing mail and approximately 200,000,000 pieces of incoming mail per service center per year. Mail includes letter size up to and including "flats." Please provide information on the volume handling capability of your equipment; 7) Please provide the name and phone number of any commercial or government customers who are currently using this equipment operationally; 8) Provide information on whether or not your firm is a small business. This is not a solicitation. No contract will result from this synopsis. If the IRS decides to go forward with this requirement, a solicitation synopsis will be issued at that time. (0260)

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