The Library of Congress requires a contractor to produce publications in braille for users of the braille and talking book program, which is administered by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS/BPH). The text content must be transliterated to braille from print files or pages, proofed for accuracy, duplicated using a press or embosser, bound, and shipped to three NLS warehouses in the continental U.S. under the U.S. Postal Service Free Matter for the Blind and Physically Handicapped regulation.

Contractor shall transcribe, press or emboss, bind, and ship publications in braille for the Library of Congress NLS/BPH, the publications listed in Section C.3.8 of the draft Request for Proposals in accordance with NLS/BPH Specifications 410 and 801 (with the exception that sections 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.6, 3.9, 4.5.1, and 4.5.6 of Specification 801 do not apply) and the requirements described in Section C of the draft Request for Proposals. NLS/BPH Specifications may be found at http://www.loc.gov/nls/specs/.

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