4 USPS Supplying Practices Process Step 4: Deliver and Receive Requirements
4-1 Ordering
4-1.1 Ordering and Requisitioning Channels
4-1.2 Federal Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedure
4-1.3 Contract Vehicles for Ordering
4-1.4 Orders Against Indefinite-Delivery Contracts
4-1.4.1 General
4-1.4.2 Ordering
4-1.4.3 Orders Against Single Award Indefinite-Delivery Contracts
4-1.4.4 Orders Against Multiple-Award Indefinite-Delivery Contracts
4-1.4.5 Communication and Reporting
4-1.4.6 Orders With Another Agency
4-1.5 Orders Against Ordering Agreements
4-1.5.1 General
4-1.5.2 Competition
4-1.6 Fixed-Price Task Orders
4-1.7 Performance-Based Statements of Work
4-1.8 Order Content
4-1.9 Order Pricing
4-1.10 Order Issuance
4-1.11 Communication and Reporting
4-1.12 Other Topics Considered
4-1.13 Clauses and Provisions
4-2 Shipping
4-2.1 Mailable Items
4-2.2 Postal Freight
4-2.3 Transportation Management Service Provider Freight
4-2.4 Supplier-Owned Transportation
4-2.5 Free-On-Board Destination
4-2.6 Shipping Requirements
4-2.7 Shipping Requests
4-2.8 Demurrage, Detention, and Storage
4-2.9 Receiving and Responsibility of Shipping
4-2.10 Delays
4-2.11 Early Delivery
4-2.12 Controlling Shipping Costs
4-2.13 Internal Shipping Procedures
4-2.14 Global Sourcing
4-2.15 Other Topics Considered
4-2.16 Clauses and Provisions
4-3 Receipt and Inspection
4-3.1 Designated Receiving Points
4-3.2 Receiving Process
4-3.3 Loss and Damage Reporting
4-3.4 Receipt Control, Stock Records, and Documentation
4-3.5 Supplier’s Responsibilities
4-3.6 Inspecting Goods
4-3.7 Inspecting Services
4-3.8 Other Topics Considered
4-3.9 Clauses and Provisions
4-4 Acceptance
4-4.1 Acceptance
4-4.2 Acceptance Based on Supplier Certification
4-4.3 Revocation of Acceptance in Whole or in Part
4-4.4 Transfer of Title and Risk of Loss
4-4.5 Surveillance or Audit of the Work in Progress
4-4.6 Delayed Acceptance
4-4.7 Rejection
4-4.8 Correction or Replacement
4-4.9 Nonconforming Supplies or Services
4-4.10 Acceptance with Limitations
4-4.11 Other Topics Considered
4-4.12 Clauses
4-5 Returns
4-5.1 Defects, Nonconformance, and Warranty
4-5.2 Warranties
4-5.3 Inappropriate and Erroneous Deliveries
4-5.4 Return Actions
4-5.5 Supplier Responsibilities
4-5.6 Corrections
4-5.7 Replacements
4-5.8 Simple Returns
4-5.9 Repairable Parts and Internal Return Procedures
4-5.10 Electronic Return Program
4-5.11 Exceptions
4-5.12 Documentation
4-5.13 Other Topics Considered
4-5.14 Clauses and Provisions
