Banknote Security Paper Services

The vendor required to provide banknote security paper services for include:
1. Security printing features
•    Fine-line banknote intaglio steel-plate printing, one color face to include fine line lathework border. 
•    Engraving to include latent image letters "v" to the left and "r" to the right, in a positive-negative treatment, to appear only when viewed from a prescribed angle. 
•    Engraved border shall include agency-specified text on top edge of the border above title line. 
•    This information shall be incorporated into the intaglio steel plate without exceptions. 
•    State of seal (cycloid without fine lines) shall be engraved in lower left corner for added security. 
•    State seal must measure 1¼” in diameter. 
•    Samples of state orders must be provided to ensure consistency with the state of department. 
•    Seal in lower right shall be overprinted by the lithographed process for customization (i.e., county or department seal, etc.). 
•    Lithographic seal of county health officer, county, on the face and in halftone. 
•    Prismatic undertint in pink-blue-pink pattern. 
•    Blue intaglio border ink color. 
•    A line of intaglio micro-printing of words “vital record” repeated to appear as a ruled line when viewed without magnification.
•    Visible and invisible fluorescent fibers and threads randomly distributed and instantly detectable under black ultraviolet light. 
•    Visible fluorescent fibers shall be red and blue and invisible fluorescent fibers shall be yellow. 
•    overall prismatic undertint to be printed with fluorescent erasure-sensitive oil base ink with “void” featured to deter color copies reproduction and to render evident any attempts to alter by mechanical or chemical means. 
•    Face text material to be surface printed in black ink.
2. Paper stock and construction
•    Single-sheet construction. 
•    Basic weight: twenty-eight (28) pounds, white-offset paper compatible with intaglio process; paper must be non-fluorescent with no optical brighteners (“dead paper”). 
•    Paper must contain a genuine multi-tone fourdrinier watermark or flag with agency specified text and artwork (e.g., “official vital record”, state or federal seal, eagle, or flag), visible from both sides. 
•    Simulated and printed watermarks will not be accepted. 
•    Paper must incorporate toner-grip technology to expose tampering or print-lifting attempts. 
•    Samples must be provided showing bald eagle or flag watermark to ensure consistency with current state of department.
•    No deviations from this requirement will be permitted. 
•    Intaglio steel plate printed documents must be acceptable for processing on electrostatic copying equipment and include physical properties to accept and hold the image recorded. 
•    Printing shall include fine line banknote intaglio steel plate printing in one color and surface printing in fluorescent erasure-sensitive ink.
3. Numbering
•    Consecutive 9-digit number with a corresponding 3 of 9 bar code. 
•    Numbers and bar code to be printed on face of document in black ink above fine line intaglio cycloid medallion in lower left corner. 
•    Vendor shall guarantee no missing, duplicate, or out-of-sequence numbers.
4. Size
•    Form trimmed sheet size shall be eight and a half inches wide by eleven inches long (8.5” x 11”), unless otherwise specified by the agency.
5. Packaging
•    Sheets shrink-wrapped in packages of 250 sheets.
•    Packed in cartons of 2,000 sheets (two boxes of 1,000 each), not exceeding 40 lbs.
•    Cartons must be crush-resistant and sealed with reinforced tape.
•    Each carton must be labeled with:
o    Contract and purchase order number
o    Quantity
o    Serial number range (starting and ending numbers)
o    Date of production.

- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 30, 2025