Single Award contract for the period of Date of Award and ending October 31, 2020 for U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

The period from Date of Award until October 31, 2019 will be used by the contractor for testing and interfacing with SSA's National File Transfer Management System (FTMS) for electronic transmission of files from SSA to the production facility.  Actual live production begins November 1, 2019.

These specifications cover the production of mailing packages from five (5) workloads, consisting of English and Spanish/English personalized notices; English form inserts; English and Spanish publication inserts; mailout envelopes; Business Reply Mail (BRM) envelopes and Courtesy Reply Mail (CRM) envelopes; requiring such operations as: the receipt and processing of electronically transmitted data; re-development of Advanced Function Presentation (Mixed Mode or Fully Composed) resources; composition; printing/imaging; dating of form inserts; binding; construction; inserting; presorting; and distribution.

An electronic task order will be issued daily, Tuesday through Saturday.  A print order will be issued weekly. Separate print orders will be issued for the composition and proofs (after award), and for the preproduction validation tests (after award). Combined yearly total for all mailers will be approximately 10,800,000 notices per year.   The estimated annual quantity for the daily MADCAP notices is 1,500,000, MCS notices is 7,000,000, SSA-L991 notices is 1,100,000, TASTE notices is 1,000,000, and TATTER notices is 200,000.  The Government reserves the right to increase or decrease by up to and including 25% of the total number of notices ordered annually.

Quality Level III is required for both Printing and Finishing attributes. Bid opening is March 22, 2019

Complete specifications available on-line via https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/vendors/contract-opportunities OR from the Points of Contact above