US Postal Service, Headquarters Automation Purchasing, 8403 Lee Highway, Merrifield, Virginia 22082-8150

99 -- AUTOMATIC TRAY SLEEVER SOL 102590-99-A-0138 POC George Ferguson, Purchasing Specialist, and Mary Ann Smith, Contracting Officer The USPS intends to purchase from 50 -- 123 machines noncompetitively from Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Owego, NY with Carter Control System, Frederick, MD. Lockheed Martin, under a teaming agreement with Carter Control Systems, is uniquely qualified to manufacture and deploy these systems; and Carter Control Systems maintains the software and electronic data rights. The ATS is a complementary system to the Automatic Airline Assignment (AAA) Systems, which Lockheed Martin is presently manufacturing. The USPS is in search of additional sources to provide automatic letter tray sleeving machines for potential additional quantities up to 500 units for nationwide deployment. The USPS intends to offer companies with proven equipment the opportunity to be involved in a competitive test at a date to be determined. Equipment offered must demonstrate the following minimum performance requirements: The machine shall be a self-contained unit able to process four sizes of letter trays (MM, small MM, EMMand small EMM). The machine must operate from two detachable sleeve carts having a capacity of 75 to 125 sleeves, and have an operational throughput rate of 18 trays per minute minimum. USPS requires the machine be capable of sleeving at least two tray sizes intermixed on the same conveyor as determined by the sleeve size in each of the two carts. The machine must be capable of passing the third and fourth sizes through the machine without sleeving. USPS preference is for a machine capable of automatically changing at least one of the sleeve carts and capable of passing flat trays through the machine. Trays will be fed lengthwise from a conveyor. The machine shall lift a sleeve from the top of a stack on the sleeve cart, position it, and automatically insert the tray into the sleeve. The machine shall not occupy more than 80 square feet of floor space, and the internal conveyor shall not exceed ten feet in length. If your organization is capable of providing such machines and interested in future requirements, send the following information to the USPS Automation Purchasing office: company brochure, catalog or description of proposed solution, short video of machine, list of Postal contracts within the past five years if applicable, and a recent annual report or brief financial summary. Contact point: George Ferguson, Purchasing Specialist, 703-280-7820. U.S. Postal Service Headquarters Automation Purchasing 8403 Lee Highway Merrifield VA 22082-8150 Mary Ann Smith, Contracting Officer Posted 07/14/99 (W-SN353917). (0195)

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