Copying/Duplicating/Scanning Case Files, IRS, Dallas Area

NOTE:  All production facilities used in the manufacture of the products ordered under this contract must be located within a 25-mile radius of the IRS office located at 4050 Alpha Rd, Farmers Branch, TX 75244.  Any bidder intending to use production facilities outside this area must furnish information, with the bid, that will on its face demonstrate ability to meet the schedule requirements.  One-year, single-award term contract with four option years for the production of investigative and administrative case files containing sensitive employee information and data that will require such operations as copy pickup, disassembly and re-assembly of furnished copy, copying/duplicating, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scanning and conversion to text-searchable Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files, bookmarking/hyperlinking of PDF files, producing "blowback" hard copies from PDF files, copying PDF files to CD, Bates numbering, collating, numbering, binding, packing, delivery and safeguarding of information.  Approximately 500 orders per year.  Average of 475 pages and 30 tab dividers per order.  Average of 5 copies per order.  Copies insert into IRS-furnished Report Covers with 2-prong Acco-type fasteners.  Approximately 65% of orders require copying/duplicating only.  Approximately 35% of orders require OCR scanning and coversion to text-searchable PDF files, bookmarking/hyperlinking, copying files to CD, and producing "blowback" hard copies from PDF.  Complete specifications are attached and are also available at http://www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=dallas