USPS awards $83m in mail equipment logistics contracts

Business technology and outsourcing company CSC has been awarded two contracts to manage mail transport equipment on behalf of the US Postal Service. The contracts are set to run for three years, with two options for two-year extensions that combined could see a total seven-year value of $83m.

The work will involve the handling of mail sacks, trays, pallets and wheeled containers that are used to hold mail as it is transfered through the USPS processing network.

Virginia-based CSC will be collecting, sorting, repairing, storing the equipment, and recycling or disposing of equipment as needed.

CSC staff will also provide program management and information systems support, and will work to improve the way equipment is processed, repaired and distributed where it is needed in the US Postal Service network and for US Postal Service customers to enter their mail into the system.

The logistical support will be provided for the USPS Mail Transport Equipment Service Centers (MTESCs) in Lakeville, Minnesota, and in Barrington, New Jersey.

USPS has a network of 15 such facilities, and since 1999 CSC has provided management and logistical support for 11 of them across the US, though the current period will see CSC operating nine of the MTESCs.

Alan Weakley, president of CSC North American Public Sector’s Applied Technology Group, said the contracts would help the struggling US Postal Service to improve its operations and cut costs.

He said: Our global footprint in both private and public sectors, combined with our service to just about every U.S. government agency, gives us a unique ability to address our customers’ challenges and provide the right solutions – properly and efficiently implemented.”