"Recovery" - Printing Plates

Added: Jun 15, 2009 11:16 am Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service (FMS) has awarded purchase order TFMS-HQ-09-P-0067, for the delivery of 38 printing plates. The plates will be used on 50 year old F.L. Smith custom check wrapping machines. The printing plates are used to stamp a message on all check envelopes to be delivered for fiscal year 2009 Stimulus Economic Recover payments. This was a sole source award to ParaGraphics. The plates had to be in house, and tested promptly to ensure FMS could meet a check disbursement date of 5/13/2009. Specifications for the plates are exacting, and no other vendor could provide proven, tested printing plates for the wrapper machines within required timeframes. ParaGraphics plates have been successfully tested previously, and could be produced in the time frame to meet this requirement. Competing this acquisition would have required extensive testing, which could not be accomplished and give the agency adequate time to meet the check disbursement deadline.