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ARLINGTON, Texas, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded a $370 million contract to Siemens Dematic Postal Automation L.P. to provide systems and upgrades to replace its existing fleet of Multiline Optical Character Reader (MLOCR) systems. This is the single largest contract the USPS has ever awarded the company.
The program scope includes delivery of 395 new Delivery Bar Code Sorter Input/Output Subsystems with Expanded Capability (DIOSS-EC), 217 Input/Output Subsystem (IOSS) modules to retrofit fielded Delivery Bar Code Systems (DBCS), and upgrades to 213 existing DIOSS and 53 Combined Input/Output Subsystems (CIOSS). These systems will replace most of the MLOCR's currently in use at approximately 300 processing locations across the United States. Siemens Dematic has also been contracted to install the systems, and supply integrated logistics services and spare parts.
After the design and evaluation phase, deployment of the production units is scheduled to begin in January 2006 and extend...