Taking files from FCP to Avid or Grassvalley

In the hopes of avoiding the cost of sending tapes, I am wanting to post video clips for news sources.
Currently I am posting DV25 video clips of various size - works great when I download and stick into a time line on FCP... but Avid users are running into issues of quality degradation. I think this is happening with some Grassvalley users too. I do not have specifics on the end user's systems, just a basic idea of what types of systems they are working on.
Does anyone have any suggestions on file formats that I can create that would maintain quality and ease of use?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks again!

high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream ... good quality, audio and video carried in the one file, and can be read universally

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