What We Buy & Who Buys What

This category supports the purchase of driverless powered industrial vehicles, including tow tractors and pallet trucks, designed to autonomously transport pallets and mail containers around mail processing facilities.

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This category and commodity area includes the purchase of all spare parts necessary for the maintenance of mail processing automation systems and operations, and for the repair of postal parts at the Central Repair Facility (Topeka, KS).

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This category supports the research, development, and implementation of technology solutions designed to monitor, identify, and contain biological hazards within the mail stream and within the mail processing environment to protect Postal employees and the public from acts of bioterrorism.

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This category and commodity area include items used for collecting and delivering mail such as carrier cases, cluster box units (CBUs), Post Office Boxes, Collection Boxes, parcel lockers, and postal unique delivery supplies and equipment. The category also includes security locks and keys, and those items and materials used to secure the mail within offices, Post Office Boxes, or equipment.

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This category supports individual field locations with site specific material handling solutions covering requirements that may include facility modernizations, engineering support services, fabrications, installations, modification, and upgrades to existing material handling equipment.

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This category team procures industrial processing and sequencing systems designed to automate the processing of flat mail through the USPS distribution network that incorporates state-of-the-art technology involving hardware, software, training, and spares support.

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The category includes forklifts, industrial batteries, dock lifts, personnel lifts, vehicle lifts, other vehicle maintenance related equipment, strapping, and stretch wrap machines and materials.

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This category team purchases all types of industrial equipment that facilitates the automated movement, processing, and sequencing of letter and packages throughout the USPS operations and distribution network. It provides for machine prototyping, research and development, and national deployment of mail processing technologies.

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This category team procures hardware, software, and engineering services required to process letter and flat mail along with parcels to their finest depth of sortation which increases productivity of processing and distribution locations and remote encoding centers. It includes cameras and other mail visibility technologies to support our mail information initiatives.

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This category team sources and purchases new mail transportation equipment (plastic sacks, plastic and wooden pallets, plastic and corrugated fiberboard trays, plastic tubs, and rolling containers) and fiberboard pallet boxes, Postal Paks, and Box Tops to use in moving mail between postal and major mailer or customer facilities.

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This category network receives mail transport equipment to sort, prepare, repair, store, and redistribute back to postal facilities and major mailers.

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This category includes electrical, industrial supplies (such as gloves, rubber bands etc.), custodial supplies and rentals, and maintenance items and building & equipment supplies such as bottled water, that are not related to automation equipment.

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This category supports major development contracts, national material handling deployments, engineering, and integration services that are intended to provide uniform technology improvements resulting in increased operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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This category includes office machines, equipment, accessories, and supplies commonly used in the clerical and administrative function of a business. Examples include calculating, copying, as well as drafting and stationary supplies and accessories such as writing instruments and desk organizers.

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This category supports the purchase of all package sorting equipment including new sorting equipment, upgrades and enhancements to existing sorting equipment and relocation services to move sorting equipment between or within mail processing facilities.

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This category supports the research, development, and implementation of robotic applications for the induction and sortation of mail and parcels.

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This category includes vehicle acquisition for use in the conveyance of mail, persons, or USPS material, such as automotive vehicles, trucks, and vans. This category and commodity area also includes research and development for new vehicles and the testing of vehicle related technologies.

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This category includes vehicle sales and recycling/disposal services to support the end-of-life vehicle fleet.

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This category includes vehicle maintenance and washing related services for the vehicle fleet.

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This category includes parts in the repair, maintenance, and support of vehicles.

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