USPS National Recycling for Scrap Metal

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is seeking preliminary market research information from capable and reliable sources to gain knowledge of potential qualified business sources capable of providing all personnel, equipment, supplies, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services to provide management of excess scrap metal to be recycled. The supplier shall provide all management, supervision, labor, supplies, equipment, and facilities necessary to ensure effective performance of all services described in the Statement of Work (SOW). The program objective is to establish a revenue share agreement with a supplier to dispose of surplus and excess metal scrap. The key responsibilities of the supplier include providing technical expertise relating to the recycling of metal scrap, developing innovative recycling methods and opportunities, providing and maintaining a database of postal metal recycle volumes, and developing processes that facilitate transparency, communication, and accountability for the metal scrap collection to final disposition. • The supplier shall provide services to pick up metal scrap from over 334 Postal Service facilities, along with storage of the metal scrap until their final disposition. • The supplier shall provide adequate security based on industry’s best practices to prevent theft, conversion, damage, or property loss at all times during the program process of collection, transporting, selling, and recycling. • The supplier shall comply with all Federal, State, Local, environmental laws, regulations, and provide the USPS with a list of suppliers and their addresses that will be accepting USPS materials for recycling. • The supplier shall provide a recycling plan for USPS metal scrap that identifies the best means of recycling these materials. • The supplier shall notify the Contracting Officer (CO) or Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) immediately of environmental non-compliance of Federal, State, and Local environmental laws, regulations, and requirements.