Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21207 Attn:/Noreen Pleines

99 -- SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: AGENCY'S OFFICIAL SEAL SOL SSA-IFB-95-2544 DUE 082295 POC Noreen Pleines tel: (410) 965-9519 The Social Security Administration (SSA) has a need for a contractor to produce nearly l,700 color copies of the Agency's official seal. The Government will furnish a camera copy of the seal design with a color layout. An encapsulated Postscript disk containing a digitized version of the seal may also be provided. The seals, which shall be produced in plastic butyrate, shall be 15 inches in diameter, and shall be foam filled with a cardboard back and a 1'' picture hook affixed to the back of the seal. Lettering shall be in Trump Medieval type font. Coloring shall be Pantone Matching System (PMS) blue #286, and red #186, with opaque white for the background. The contractor shall be required to provide a First Article sample copy of the seal for Agency approval prior to complete production of all seals. Using Agency-furnished mailing labels, the contractor shall be required to mail all seals to the point of destination, which will include locations within the continental U.S., Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Mailings shall also include an Agency-furnished transmittal letter. There will be approximately 1,584 individual addresses and 1 bulk mailing. The contractor shall be required to furnish the packaging. See Numbered Note 1. The IFB is scheduled for release on or about July 24, 1995, with bids due thirty days thereafter. Requests for the solicitation should be received no later than 20 days after the date of this publication. Requests received after this time will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis consistent with supply. No telephone requests will be honored. The solicitation will be available for download in electronic form on the SSA Acquisition Data and Information Exchange (SADIE) Bulletin Board System. Dial (410) 966-4889 within the Baltimore, MD area, or 1-800-SSA-SELL for access. Set your modem to 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit (8-N-1), full duplex, and VT-100 or ANSI terminal emulation. Further instructions are available on line. For technical assistance, call the Sysop at (410) 965-8086. (0181)

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