Effective June 2, 2014, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) section 623.1 to clarify that the Postal Service would disqualify a Global Direct Entry (GDE) participant as a wholesaler if it is listed in the System of Award Management (SAM) Exclusions Extract.
The SAM Exclusions Extract contains a list of all currently open exclusions in SAM, which identifies entities that are in some way restricted from doing business with the U.S. Federal Government.
The current standard states that the wholesaler would be disqualified if it is simply “an entity” on the SAM, but the new standard clarifies that the wholesaler would be disqualified if it is “an entity” listed in the SAM “Exclusions Extract.”
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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6 Special Programs
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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, subsidiary, affiliate, agent, or company of the wholesaler as a GDE wholesaler for either of the following reasons:
[Under the second paragraph, revise item a to read as follows:]
a. Being an entity that is listed in the System of Award Management (SAM) Exclusions Extract, which is available at www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM.
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When effective, we will incorporate this revision into the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
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