Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, Box 6, Washington, DC 20231

R -- OPERATION OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE MAIL CENTER SOL 52-PAPT-8-00020 POC Naomi Sorrell, Contracting Officer, (703) 305-8563 WEB: click here to access Department of Commerce Acquisition Process Case for Change, http://www.doc.gov/oam/conops. E-MAIL: click here to contact the Contracting Officer via e-mail, naomi.sorrell@uspto.gov. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) located in Crystal City, Arlington Virginia, anticipates entering into a five-year (base with four options) contract for the operation of a centralized mail center which provides for the receipt, sorting, and distribution of PTO incoming, outgoing and interoffice mail, including patent application files, at the highest level of quality and in a timely manner. The estimated annual volume is 13.7 million pieces of mail. The estimated number of mail stops, 101, includes pedestrian and vehicular mailstops found within 15 buildings. We require contractor-furnished truck(s) for the vehicular stops. We are offering this acquisition for competition limited to eligible 8(a) concerns. The Standard Industrial Code (SIC) is 8744. We will conduct this competitive acquisition using a streamlined acquisition process. The process is described in a document entitled "Department of Commerce Acquisition Process Case for Change" available on the Internet at http://www.doc.gov/oam/conops. The intent of this streamlined acquisition process is to provide an improved acquisition environment. It will benefit both the vendor community and the Government in an atmosphere of integrity, openness and fairness. On or about May 4, 1998, the first part of this acquisition process will begin with the issuance of a Project Agreement. The Project Agreement will be available on the Internet at http://www.uspto.gov/go/conops. In using this acquisition process, the Project Agreement will serve as the solicitation document for this requirement. Interested parties must respond to the Project Agreement to be considered for award of a resultant contract. We will adress questions regarding the requirement after publication of the Project Agreement and a site visit/preproposal conference. We will provide the date, time and location of the site visit/preproposal conference in the Project Agreement. We will not establish a mailing list for this requirement, therefore, we do not require a response to this Commerce Business Daily announcement. (0085)

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