Harmonized System code lookup Prohibitions and restrictions Denied parties Landed cost calculator

This call for tenders concerns the provision of the following services and technologies, which are to be inte­grated with existing UPU software (specifically, the Customs Declaration System – CDS) through application programming interfaces (APIs):

i         Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) lookup engine (herein­after “HS Lookup”);

ii          Prohibitions and restrictions lookup engine (hereinafter “P&R Lookup”);

iii          Denied parties lookup engine (hereinafter “DP Lookup”);

iv         Landed costs calculator (hereinafter “LC Calculator”).

HS Lookup is the core component; all Bidders must offer a solution covering the HS Lookup requirements set out in section 4.1. The three other components are optional and Bidders may offer a solution for all, some or none of the three options (i.e. 2, 3 and 4 above). Bidders offering a solution for some or all of the three optional components must describe in their pricing structure how the prices may vary if the UPU decides to engage the Bidder for all or only some of the components.

The UPU reserves the right to engage different Vendors for each component.