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United States : USPS offers contracts to six prime vendors under NGDVs procurement process
Publish Date : 28-Sep-2016
Following a strict assessment process, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced that it has offered contracts to six prime suppliers that will make 50 prototype vehicles as part of the next phase of the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDVs) procurement process.
The USPS said 50% of the prototypes will feature hybrid and new technologies which includes alternative fuel capabilities. The prototypes will represent a range of vehicle sizes and drive configurations, along with advanced powertrains and various hybrid technologies.
The 6 selected vendoers include AM General, Karsan, Mahindra, Oshkosh, Utilimaster and VT Hackney.
This is an important announcement as the USPS is expected to procure hundreds of thousands of NGDVs, with the contract awards worth $37.4 million.
With a request for information (RFI) and kick-off meeting open to all interested technology and automotive suppliers to respond and take part, the USPS publicly launch the NGDV procurement program in January 2015.
After a review of the responses to the RFI, 15 suppliers were decided to be prequalified to file proposals to develop NGDV prototypes. Under the process, the potential vendors gained access to our processing and delivery environment and employees and were then asked to submit proposals that represented their design conclusions concerning the delivery vehicles that would best meet the USPS organizational needs. Prospective vendors were allowed to submit several bids for consideration.
