T--Microfilm and Related Services

Single award term contract for the IRS/Atlanta. Beginning May 1, 2006 and ending April 30, 2007, with 4 possible options years (if applicable). These specifications cover the production of microfilm requiring such operations as pickup, inspection and preparation, indexing, microfilming, duplicating, image (blip) marks, collating, packing, labeling and marking, and distribution. The contractor must support a complete range of micrographics services. These services shall include, the creation of job setups for new projects, and the modification (when required) to existing setups; filming of COM applications in 16mm; wet processing of gelatin based silver halide films; diazo duplication for roll film applications; quality assurance checks; film splicing; cartridge loading; the creation of independent indexes as required; and the packaging, labeling, and shipment of output in a timely manner. Furnished tapes are all produced in an IBM or IBM-compatible Tier 1 environment using EBCDIC character encoding. No Tier 2 equipment will be used to produce tapes using ASCII encoding. FREQUENCY OF ORDERS: Approximately 4 orders per year, with an occasional special order. Microfilm: 16mm x 30.5 meters (100 ft.). Polyester based, silver halide (gelatin emulsion) film shall be used. Film thickness shall be 4.0 mils for the masters and 2.5 mils for the duplicates. GOVERNMENT TO FURNISH: 36 track, -inch tapes of the types designated - 3480 and - 3490E by IBM. Record length is 133 characters. Data is written on the tapes in segments of approximately 2200 frames each. A gap of blank frames separate each segment. Deliver f.o.b. contractor's city to various locations using the small courier account indicated on the print order. Complete production and delivery is required within 30 to 120 workdays. Complete specifications will be available on the Atlanta GPO web site once they are issued. Target date for availability is early April 2006. If you are NOT internet active, you may FAX a request a bid package to +1 (555) 000-0000 on bidder's letterhead - reference Program 1491-S on request. The Atlanta web site is: http://www.gpo.gov/bidopps/regions/atlanta/index.shtml.