[Moving Mountains] Massachusetts RFP for Library Delivery & Sorting Services Issued- - - - - - -

[G. Pronevitz]

  Dear Colleagues,

I am posting this message to the Moving Mountains list to make those of 
you involved in the Physical Delivery of Library Materials aware of a 
new innovative RFP for services.

We hope to provide delivery services to over 500 libraries on nine 
separate ILSs without delivery labels by using an external barcode to 
communicate with the ILSs to determine the destination at the sort 
site.  Such automated sorting also holds the promise of additional 
efficiencies for participating libraries.  Several large library systems 
have implemented such systems, e.g., King County and Seattle in 
Washington and New York Public.  As far as we know, this would be the 
first multi-ILS system.

We have been working for about a year in preparation for this RFP.  We 
issued an RFI last year which received 17 responses from couriers and 
distributors of automated materials handling systems.  We have attempted 
to cover all the bases with the RFP and are happy to make the results of 
our efforts available to the library community in this way.  If you have 
thoughts on omissions or clarifications that will assist us in 
negotiations or contracting, I'd love to hear them.

Our Request for Proposal (RFP) for Library Delivery and Sorting Services 
for Massachusetts Libraries was issued July 15, 2010 by the 
Massachusetts Library System, Inc. (MLS) 135 Beaver Street, Waltham, MA 
02452.  Responses are Due: 4:00 pm EDT, August 31, 2010.

Please visit our web site to download the RFP, respondent forms, 
appendices, inquiry instructions, and related information.
http://wp.me/PXRJJ-3T

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Thank you,
Greg

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Please note new contact information:

Gregory Pronevitz, Executive Director
Massachusetts Library System, Inc.
135 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA 02452
Voice 781-398-1819
Fax 781-398-1821

greg at masslibsystem.org
www.masslibsystem.org