Successful Respondent must provide Heat Transfer Cigarette Tax Stamps (“stamps”) production, delivery and related services that comply with all requirements set forth this RFP and that meet the following specifications and quantities for all items: a. Security Features; Scanners; Adhesion; Paper. 1) Stamps must be manufactured so that they are easily and securely attached to an individual package of cigarettes and permit identification of the person that affixed the stamp to the particular package of cigarettes by means of a number or other mark on the stamp. 2) Stamps must be heat applied and must be suitable for high speed, stamping machine or heat iron and capable of application with heat to the receiving surface such as cellophane, paper, etc. Stamps must be compatible with stamping equipment currently supported by stamp machine manufacturers and in operation by Texas permitted cigarette distributors. 3) Stamps must be printed on mill-controlled paper furnished by the Successful Respondent. 4) The stamps must contain identifiable protective features that immediately permit analysis to establish stamp authenticity. 5) The stamps must contain a covert security feature where wording, specified by CPA, on the stamp becomes brightly fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light. This fluorescence feature must be a stable and permanent effect whenever tests are made and shall not be fugitive. 6) All stamps must be processed with a special safety tint lettering, specified by CPA, and must be arranged and printed to minimize, as much as reasonably possible as determined solely in CPA’s discretion, the ability to photograph the safety tint lettering. 7) The safety tint lettering for all stamps shall exist on the face of each stamp and extend beyond each stamp’s border and onto the base paper on which the stamp is affixed. All safety tint lettering (i.e., that which is on the stamp face and that which is on the base paper) shall transfer with the stamp, whether the stamp is manually applied or machine applied
