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BID SUBMISSION: Submit each bid to: U.S. Government Printing Office; Bid Section, Room C-161, Stop PPSB; Washington, DC 20404-0001.

Unless otherwise stated in the solicitation, responses will not be accepted electronically. (See Bid Form 910)

The following synopses of online solicitations are a listing of those available for bidding at GPO's Central Office Printing Procurement Department and are available as on-demand printing files in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).

List of GPO's offices using this online bid service: Central Office, Atlanta RPPO, Boston RPPO, Charleston SPPO, Chicago RPPO, Columbus RPPO, Dallas RPPO, Denver RPPO, Hampton RPPO, New York RPPO, Oklahoma City SPPO, Philadelphia RPPO, San Antonio SPPO, San Diego SPPO, San Francisco RPPO, and Seattle RPPO.

Abstract file lists are available in PDF's for GPO's Atlanta, Boston, Central, Charleston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Hampton, New York, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle offices.


TERM CONTRACTS

Program Number: 529-S

Title: Various Printed Products
Bid Opening Date: May 8, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of various printed products requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing in two to five colors (including four-color process plus one Pantone color), binding, construction, packing, and distribution.

Program Number: 384-S

Title: Multiple-part Sets (Carbonless Paper)
Bid Opening Date: May 8, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of multiple-part carbonless paper sets, fan apart or equal, and/or pads requiring such operations as film making, composition, printing, cutting, drilling, perforating, numbering, padding, packing, and delivery

Program Number: 188-S R-3

Title: Library Binding
Bid Opening Date: Bids shall be publicly opened at 11:00 a.m., prevailing Washington, DC time, on May 12, 2009
Scope: These specifications provide for the procurement of library binding of books and serial publications requiring such operations as rebinding or recasing, stamping, packing, and distribution

Program Number: 375-S

Title: Research & Development Promotional Materials
Bid Opening Date: May 13, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of various printed products consisting of separate-covered publications, brochures, and pocket folders, requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing in four-color process, binding, embossing, packing, and distribution

Program Number: 63-S Amendment No. 1Amendment No. 2Amendment No. 3

Title: Airport/Facility Directory (A/FD), Chart Supplement Pacific (CSP), and Supplement Alaska (SA)
Bid Opening Date: May 13, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of separate cover perfect-bound books requiring such operations as file conversion, maintaining and updating data files, photocomposition, printing, binding, packing, and distribution.

Program Number: 229-S

Title: HRSA Care Action Newsletters
Bid Opening Date: May 14, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of newsletter and a single sheet insert (special issue) requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing, binding, packing, and distribution

Program Number: 287-S

Title: Take-Home Books
Bid Opening Date: Bids shall be publicly opened at 11:00 a.m., prevailing Washington, DC, time, on May 18, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of self-covered publications requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing in four-color process, binding, packing, and distribution

Program Number: 446-S

Title: Global Reliance
Bid Opening Date: May 18, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of self-covered, saddle-stitched pamphlets requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing in four-color process, binding, packing, mailing, and distribution.

Program Number: 478-S

Title: National Endowment of the Arts Communication Office Publications
Bid Opening Date: May 19, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of separate and self covered saddle-stitched, perfect-bound, and smyth sewn publications requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing in two to five ink colors or 4-color process, binding, packing, and distribution.

Program Number: 651-S

Title: Training Publications
Bid Opening Date: May 21, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of separate-covered training manuals (including fold-ins, tabs and unit dividers) requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing, binding, packing, and distribution

Program Number: 218-S

Title: Various Printed Products
Bid Opening Date: May 21, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of various printed products consisting of self- and separate-covered publications, planners, and pocket folders requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing (including four-color process), binding, packing, and distribution.

Program Number: 586-S

Title: Still Serving Retiree Newsletter
Bid Opening Date: May 22, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of newsletters requiring such operations as electronic prepress, printing, binding, packing, and distribution.

Program Number: 405-S

Title: Library Binding
Bid Opening Date: May 26, 2009
Scope: These specifications provide for the procurement of library binding and rebinding of books, periodicals, pamphlets, and newspapers; repairs; creating facsimiles, plus the construction of double tray boxes, portfolios, four-flap enclosures and other protective enclosures.

Program Number: 392-S

Title: Electronic File Forms
Bid Opening Date: May 29, 2009
Scope: These specifications cover the production of electronic Portable Document Format (PDF) files created from Government furnished camera copy to be used by the Bureau of Land Management on the "World Wide Web" (WWW) and internal web pages for fillable BLM forms


ONE-TIME BIDS

Jacket Number: 352-961

Bid Opening Date: May 8, 2009
Product: Padded Form
Title: Security Prescription Form
Quantity: 20,600 pads of 100 each = 2,060,000 forms (plus/minus none)
Ship/Deliver Date: Ship 5,150 pads of 100 each (515,000 total forms) to arrive at destination on or before May 29, 2009. Ship complete to arrive at destinations on or before June 17, 2009

Jacket Number: 352-946

Bid Opening Date: May 21, 2009
Product: Multiple awards may be made for this solicitation. All the requirements of these specifications apply equally to all jackets/items unless otherwise indicated. There are approximately three to ten items (Area Specific Handbooks) for each lot. Each item is an estimated 140-180 page publication with separate wraparound cover, perfect bound for each lot. All text pages print in two colors (black and one Pantone color) throughout, with no blank pages. Each item contains: Covers: Print in four color process and one Pantone color, plus coating * Covers 1, 2 and 3 are common to all books, and cover 4 is specific to each book. Text Pages: Print in two colors (black and one Pantone color) * Fixed section, estimated to be approximately 120 pages, is common to all books. * Variable section, is unique and is located at the end of each Area-Specific Handbook, ranges between (approximately) 20-60 pages
Title: "Medicare and You 2010" (English Area-Specific Handbooks)
Quantity: approximately 40,000,000 handbooks, divided into lots of approximately 6,700,000 Area-Specific Handbooks
Ship/Deliver Date: 10/29/09


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