Effective May 16, 2013, the Postal Service™ is revising mailing standards for the Postal Qualified Wholesaler program and the Global Direct Entry™ (GDE) Wholesaler program regarding a certain eligibility criterion. These revised standards will appear in Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) in the next online update.
The revised standards replace “Excluded Parties List System (EPLS)” with “System of Award Management (SAM)” as a reason for disqualification when a mailer applies for either the Postal Qualified Wholesaler program or the Global Direct Entry™ (GDE) Wholesaler program.
These revised standards are consistent with the General Services Administration (GSA) notice that was published in Federal Register (78 FR 22880) on April 17, 2013, and that became effective that date.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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6 Special Programs
610 Postal Qualified Wholesaler Program
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613 Qualifying as a Wholesaler
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613.3 Disqualification
Any wholesaler will be disqualified as a Postal Qualified Wholesaler if it does not meet any of the following conditions:
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c. Neither the wholesaler, a subsidiary, an affiliate, an agent, nor a parent company can be:
[Revise item 1 to read as follows:]
1. An entity on the System of Award Management (SAM), available at www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM.
620 Global Direct Entry Wholesaler Program
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623 Disqualification as a GDE Wholesaler
623.1 Determining Factors
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Also, the Postal Service will disqualify a wholesaler, a subsidiary, an affiliate, an agent, or a company of the wholesaler as a GDE wholesaler for any of the following reasons:
[Revise item a to read as follows:]
a. Being an entity on the System of Award Management (SAM), available at www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM.
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
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