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Provision 1-1 Supplier Clearance Requirements (March 2006)

The contract resulting from this solicitation will require the contractor or its employees (including subcontractors and their employees) to have access to occupied postal facilities, and/or to postal information and resources, including postal computer systems. Clearance in accordance with Administrative Support Manual 272.3 will be required before that access will be permitted. It is the contractor's obligation to obtain and supply to the Postal Service the forms and information required by that regulation.

Offerors must familiarize themselves with the requirements of that section, taking into account in their offices the time and paperwork associated with the screening.

Provision 1-2 Domestic Source Certificate - Supplies (March 2006)

The offeror certifies that each end product, except those listed below, is a domestic-source end product (as defined in the Preference for Domestic Supplies clause) or (subject to the eligibility thresholds set out in the Evaluate Foreign and Domestic Proposals topic in Process Step 2, Evaluate Sources of the Postal Service Supplying Practices) end products mined, produced, or manufactured in (i) countries that have entered into World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA) or (ii) a country that has entered into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States covering government purchases and that components of unknown origin are considered to have been mined, produced, or manufactured outside the United States. Excluded end products (Offeror show country of origin for each excluded end product):

Provision 1-3 Domestic Source Certificate - Construction Materials (March 2006)

The offeror certifies that only domestic construction materials (as defined in the Preference for Domestic Construction Materials clause) will be used in the performance of this contract, except for foreign construction materials listed below:

Provision 1-4 Prohibition Against Contracting with Former Postal Service Officers or PCES Executives (March 2006)

The offeror represents that former Postal Service officers or Postal Career Executive Service (PCES) executives will not be employed as key personnel, experts or consultants in the performance of the contract if such individuals, within 1 year of their retirement from the Postal Service, will be performing substantially the same duties as they performed during their career with the Postal Service. In addition, no contract resulting from this solicitation may be awarded to such individuals or entities in which they have a substantial interest, for 1 year after their retirement from the Postal Service, if the work called for in the solicitation requires such individuals to perform substantially the same duties as they performed during their career with the Postal Service.

Provision 1-5 Proposed Use of Former Postal Service Employees
(March 2006)

In its proposal, the supplier must identify any former Postal Service employee it proposes to engage, directly or indirectly, in the performance of the contract. The Postal Service reserves the right to require the supplier to replace the proposed individual with an equally qualified individual.