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39 -- PRIORITY MAIL SUPERSORTER DUE 042696. Contact Point, Susan M. Brownell, Contracting Officer, (703) 280-7810. The Postal Service has an urgent need to obtain a sortation system to handle parcels and flats. We are seeking qualification statements from only those firms who can adequately demonstrate installed equipment with the following capabilities: ability to sort machineable flats and parcels (as defined in the Domestic Mail Manual) at a rate exceeding 10,000 pieces an hour; read bar-codes on all size sides of a parcel; automatically singulate and induct flats and parcels; weight and measure parcels and flats in-motion; and be capable of being installed in different configurations (number of separations and physical layout). To be considered qualified, firms shall possess the resources to manufacture, deploy, and support the installation of 50 sorters in 1997. (This does not imply that the Postal Service will install this quantity of sorters.) Interested firms should prepare a summary of their qualifications, not to exceed twenty (20) pages, which must include specific information on installed systems that possess the capabilities described above as well as relevant past performance information. Only those firms who are determined to be qualified will be considered for any resulting contracts. Interested firms should submit qualification statements no later than April 26, 1996. (093)

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