San Francisco Regional Printing Procurement Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, 536 Stone Road, Suite I, Benicia, CA 94510-1170

T -- PRINTING OF TAX FORMS SOL Program 2998-S DUE 121897 POC Richard C. Lee at (707) 748-1970. John J. O'Connor, Contracting Officer. WEB: Program 2998-S, http://www.gpo.gov/procurement/sanfran/synopsis.shtml. Single award contract (two categories) for US Treasury (IRS). Production of work assumed within 160 km (100 miles) of Sacramento, CA. Contract is for printing of time-critical non-OCR and OCR tax forms. Category 1: Printing of non-OCR tax forms: approx. 10 orders per year, for 15,000 to 2,000,000 (avg. 100,000) forms per order, printing one or two colors with trim sizes from 203 x 279 mm (8 x 11") to 216 x 838 mm (8-1/2 x 33"). Category 2: Printing of OCR tax forms: approx. 2 orders per year, for 15,000 to 2,000,000 (avg. 200,000) forms per order, printing one over one (OCR black over OCR color) with trim sizes of 203 or 216 x 279 mm (8 or 8-1/2 x 11"). Required contract operations include, copy pickup, films, printing, prior-to-production samples, perforating, folding, packing, labeling, palletizing, delivery. Quality Level 4 printing, an established quality control program for printing OCR forms, and a 2- to 7-workday procduction schedule is required. Bid specifications may be obtained by: (1) submitting request on firm's letterhead via mail, or; (2) faxing request to (707) 748-1981, or; (3) accessing URL link cited below to download copy of contract specifications. (0330)

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