Miscellaneous Notices

Single award contract for the period of Date of Award to February 28, 2013 plus up to four option years for the Department of Social Security Administration. These specifications cover the production of English only and bilingual Spanish/English personalized letters (notices); printing in black ink only or black ink and one PMS color; mail-out envelopes, Business Reply Mail envelopes (BRM) or Courtesy Reply Mail envelopes (CRM) and up to two additional government supplied inserts (leaflet/booklet/forms/CDs, etc.). Requiring operations such as: the receipt and processing of wire transmitted data; re-development of AFP resources; programming of record specification data; composition; making reproducibles, printing and/or imaging, build and printing of barcodes, envelope production, binding (folding, collating, inserting); spraying/imaging correct return addresses on mail-out envelopes; presorting, USPS mailing of domestic/foreign and certified/registered mail. It is anticipated at this time that approximately 12 to 25 print orders will be placed per year. Print orders will contain from 500 to 500,000 domestic/foreign mailers and/or up to 6,000 certified/registered mailers . An occasional order may be placed for up to 1.5 million domestic/foreign mailers. All orders must be produced in full, no shortages will be allowed. Orders may contain both domestic/foreign and certified/registered mailers; and multiple production files. The production and mailing for each type of mailer will follow the schedules outlined below. Print Orders will be issued with estimated quantities, actual quantities will not be known until date production files are provided. Bids open August 8, 2012, 11 am est. Complete specifications available on line via www.gpo.gov/bidopps.action?region=central