About Empire Library Delivery

Empire Library Delivery Procurement Announcement For further information, please use the Contact and Questions page.   The New York 3Rs Association, Inc. (NY3Rs) announces plans for a procurement of library delivery services for libraries throughout the State of New York.This procurement has the potential to include up to five stops per week at more than 400 libraries located

Read More..

Final Follow-Up Call for Bidders Scheduled for 02.24.02 at 4:00pm

Read More..

Don’t Forget the FAQs

We are regularly updating the FAQs with answers to questions we receive from bidders. While you receive updates from the site when we publish a new post, the same updates are not generated when we add Q&As to the FAQ. All questions and answers are listed in chronological order from oldest to newest. Head to the

Read More..

REVISED: Final RFP Available Now for Empire Library Delivery

Please find the links below to the final RFP for the Empire Library Delivery Service and required Schedule Response Forms. A follow-up conference call for bidders will be announced within the next few days on this site. To download files, right-click (control+click on mac) and “save link as” to desired location. Please note: The schedule

Read More..

Recording Available from January 17 Conference Call with Potential Bidders

Thanks to those of you who were able to join us for this call. For those of you that would like to revisit this conversation or share it with potential collaborators, we are including the recording below for your convenience.

Read More..

Results from LAND Survey Now Available

ATTENTION: As of January 27. 2012, all available current data for existing services is available on the Summary of Existing Services page. In preparation for forthcoming RFP, the Empire Library Delivery task force conducted a survey to solicit as much information as possible about the existing LAND delivery service. The attached spreadsheet, while not comprehensive,

Read More..

Bidders and Stakeholders Invited to Register for Conference Call

The Empire Library Delivery task force will hold two conference calls in January, one for potential bidders (January 17, 1:30-3:30) and another for representatives from stakeholder institutions (January 18, 1:30-3:30). Please the the appropriate form below to register. Due to the large number of stakeholders, we request that stakeholder institutions designate one representative to attend

Read More..

Draft RFP Now Available for Review

Below is a link to the draft version of the RFP for Empire Library Delivery. This draft version is being issued to generate discussion and answer questions from stakeholders and firms who are considering responding to the final RFP.  The Empire Library Delivery planning committee would like to hear how this RFP might be improved

Read More..

Joint Bid Options

We have received questions from couriers about the possibility of bidding for parts of the upcoming contract to allow a courier to provide services in one or more of the geographic areas. At this point, we anticipate that bids will be accepted to allow for service in this manner, particularly for the non-“LAND” components. We

Read More..