We have helped the US Postal Service improve and expand its facilities since 1987. Now, a new chapter has begun.
The US Postal Service (USPS) presides over a network of post offices, distribution centers, processing centers, retail mail facilities, laboratories, and vehicle maintenance sites, nationwide. It is a vast portfolio, with a constant requirement for ongoing repair and maintenance, and for alterations that drive the development of a more efficient, safer, and more environmentally engaged business.
And for well over thirty years – and three consecutive national contracts – AECOM has been USPS’s partner of choice to deliver program management and construction management support services that have helped the business attain its challenging improvement objectives, across more than 2,000 facilities.
The scope and breadth of the programs has been far-reaching, encompassing architectural and engineering design, construction management, environmental services, and more, in complex, “always on” operating scenarios that form part of the critical national infrastructure.
In the face of these challenges, our long and proven relationship with USPS has been founded on two pillars.
Firstly, our ability to draw on an expansive, established network of multidisciplinary experts who can deliver across diverse project and program types.
And secondly, our strong knowledge of previous USPS projects and the facilities involved – carefully captured in databases – that we use to optimize the planning, scheduling, and execution of current work, to fit with USPS’s objectives, and its preferred way of working.
This combination of capabilities has enabled us to become a prequalified supplier, selected to manage programs and construction that touch on every aspect of USPS’s operations, facilities, working and natural environment, and core values, and deliver positive, measurable, enduring outcomes.
Integrity and Resilience - Efficiency and Performance - Accessibility, Safety, and Working Environment - Sustainability and the Natural Environment
To improve the integrity and resilience of USPS’s facilities, for example, we have managed nationwide programs for a portable generator strategy, structural repairs and re-roofing, and electrical data updates for facility early action plans (EAPs).
To enhance efficiency and performance in existing facilities and sites, we have performed thorough third-party review and on-site construction management for the expansion of a processing and distribution center (P&DC) in Los Angeles, CA; managed replacement of air compressors at the Morgan P&DC in New York, NY; and carried out numerous HVAC and controls upgrades at facilities in San Juan, PR; Hicksville, NY; Columbus, OH; Atlanta, GA; and Memphis, TN.
To improve accessibility, safety, and working environment, we have delivered the leased space accessibility program (LSAP) for 3500 leased USPS facilities in over 45 states. We have managed design and construction for the National Paving Program, which encompasses employee parking, customer parking, service entrances, and front entrances. For the Elevator Modernization Program, AECOM is responsible for all work, from site assessments through design and construction management for elevator replacements and upgrades.
To support sustainability and the natural environment, we have performed energy audits at over 200 USPS locations ranging in size from 100,000 SF to 1,400,000 SF. The audits were targeted to reducing current energy consumption to 30% below ASHRAE 90.1 minimum requirements. We have also managed nationwide upgrades to onsite recycling equipment.
Excitingly, a new chapter in this relationship is now underway, as we have been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) program management services contract (PMSC), with a combined $600-million program ceiling, that will extend over a period of up to seven years. The facilities-related PMSC addresses the changing volume of letters and parcels processed in over 31,000 facilities nationwide, as well as the delivery methods used to carry out repairs, alterations, and new builds.
Frank Constantinople, AECOM’s program manager, points out the depth of our relationship with USPS, but is in no doubt that the future brings ever greater opportunity for collaboration – and that this comes down to the quality of the expertise that AECOM can call upon for continuous program improvement.
“We have a leadership and management team, as well as key technical staff, with a long history of working with USPS and in related industries,” he says. “We will apply best practice, innovation, and industry knowledge to work with the Postal Service throughout this next stage in delivery.”
And for Tom Scerbo, AECOM’s program executive, past performance bodes well for future outcomes.
“With our unwavering track record of successful completion,” he points out, “we are ready to continue to deliver USPS projects of all sizes and on a national scale.”
Three decades, thousands of projects, and thousands more on their way – when an organization determined to constantly improve meets a partner equipped to do the job, the relationship just keeps on giving.
Contact: Frank Constantinople, PE, Associate Vice President