J -- Cleveland Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center

The United States Postal Service intends to issue a Solicitation for the operation of a Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center (MTESC) to be located in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Specific Facility location requirements will be posted with the solicitation. It is expected that the Solicitation will be issued by Friday, March 5, 2004. The purpose of the Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) network is to ensure an adequate supply of high-quality MTE ready for rapid deployment to Postal facilities and their customers. MTESCs will receive MTE, examine it, and route it for reuse if serviceable, repair it if defective but repairable, or dispose of it if beyond repair. (Disposal may be through waste pickup or material recycling and will be directed by the Postal Service.) Each MTESC in the network will be responsible for processing and repairing MTE for use by Postal facilities and commercial mailers. The MTE network will provide an efficient means of continuously improving the management of MTE processing, repair, and distribution functions. Other benefits expected from the MTE network include better MTE performance and life cycle data and improved control over the disposal of condemned MTE. The MTE network will also allow Postal Service Area and Headquarters staff to continuously balance MTE inventories within and among all Postal Service Areas both effectively and efficiently.