Printing Services and Printing Service Products

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY FOR IDENTIFYING SUPPLIERS FOR: Printing Services and Printing Service Products. This is not a solicitation announcement for quotations, proposals, or bids, and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement and/or any follow-up information requests. No telephone calls requesting a solicitation will be accepted or acknowledged. There is no solicitation available at this time. Emptoris is an eSourcing solution that automates, standardizes, and streamlines the sourcing of supplies, services, equipment, transportation, and facilities. All suppliers interested in doing business with the U.S. Postal Service must register in Emptoris. Suppliers can access the eRFx registration module at: https://uspsesourcing.emptoris.com Simply click on the "Register Supplier Organization" hyperlink, and follow the instructions and prompts to complete the registration process. You will need a DUNS (Dun & Bradstreet) number and NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code to register in the USPS sourcing system. Registered organizations will receive log-in credentials to the USPS eSourcing application. Emptoris requires that you have a Dun & Bradstreet Number. Free Dun & Bradstreet # application within 24 hours link: http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform Link to NAICS (North American Industry Classification System Codes: http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/ Please note that the attached Emptoris instruction guide defines NAICS code as 5-digits. In reality, the NAICS codes are 6-digits. You may add as many NAICS codes as are relevant for your business. The following are the basic criteria, among other criteria, the USPS will consider in pre-qualifying potential suppliers. 1) The supplier must demonstrate world-class production, warehouse, fulfillment, distribution capabilities (pick and ship) and established just-in-time inventory system capabilities sufficient to meet the Postal Service requirements in the production of pressure sensitive labels, non-pressure sensitive labels, thermal labels, multi-part forms, forms, decals, tags, and other miscellaneous labels. 2) National Capability: The supplier must have the ability to support a national network of locations. The supplier must demonstrate an ability to support the Postal Service which include, but not limited to: approximately 32,000 Post Offices in the forty-eight contiguous United States (CONUS); as well as, Alaska, Guam, Hawaii and its related islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 3) Additional Capabilities: The supplier must have the resources to perform the work. The supplier must have the ability to meet any potential contract start dates and phase-in (implementation) and delivery timelines. The supplier must use a documented and acceptable quality management system to monitor and measure its performance against contract requirements. The supplier must have a demonstrated record of forecasting accuracy, continuous improvement, innovation, containing/reducing costs, and a customer-centric focus. 4) USPS intends to consider various in-network and out-of-network outbound transportation solutions for Printing Service products, with the supplier providing more or less of the transportation mixed with USPS-furnished transportation. Depending on the transportation model selected, the supplier must have the capability to provide direct vendor delivery of Printing Service products to approximately 32,000 postal locations or designated delivery points, following the Postal Service's transportation scheme or the supplier's own transportation scheme, or both. 5) Supplier Required USPS Systems Capabilities: Enterprise Data Interchange (EDI): The supplier must have EDI capabilities when submitting any proposals for Printing Services or Printing Service products. The USPS provides an AFT site for business partners to PUT/deposit and GET/pick-up files. Files transmitted via this method must be encrypted with PGP.EDI. EDI is a set of standards that set a common set of formats for information in order to be exchanged electronically between two organizations doing business together (called "trading partners"). By following common standards, any organization can communicate electronically with any other because they essentially speak the same language. eBuy2 is the USPS Enterprise Tool for ordering goods and services. It is an intranet-based system for the creation and approval of on-catalog requisitions. The Supplier must have eBuy2 capabilities to be a prequalified Printing Service supplier (or be able to become capable prior to the commencement of the prequalification). eBuy2 is the mandatory purchase vehicle for all USPS installations with intranet access. Each ordering office must reconcile the Billing Summary Report against the orders received during a specified month. The system: 1) Provides a process for creation of new on-catalog requisitions 2) Routes on-catalog requisitions to the Supplier 3) Posts payments for requisitions Additionally, the Supplier must have system capabilities to integrate with the USPS. Registered suppliers in Emptoris will be eligible to be prequalified for future Postal Service Printing Service requirements. If you are interested in being prequalified, please send an email message to Paige.A.Farkas2@usps.gov with the Subject Line: "Printing Services Sources Sought Notice." Please include the following information in your email message: (1) Company Name (US Companies Only); (2) Complete Mailing Address; (3) Point of Contact (POC); (4) Title of POC; (5) Telephone Number of POC; (6) email address of POC; and (7) Confirmation that you have registered successfully in Emptoris. All expressions of interest and inquiries must be submitted by email.