Pilot Project on “Alternative Metrics for Research” for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Status Awarded
Contract number 3000659895
Solicitation number 5000035953
Publication date
Contract award date
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Status Awarded
Contract number 3000659895
Solicitation number 5000035953
Publication date
Contract award date
Contract value
This contract was awarded to:
ADVANCE CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE (ACAN)
1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2. Definition of Requirements
NRCan intends to conduct a feasibility "proof of concept" pilot with Altmetric (from Digital Science) to assess if their web-based research metrics application called "Explorer for Institutions" is potentially beneficial to NRCan's science and research community. The Altmetric "Explorer for Institutions" is a site-license access subscription platform that enables researchers to browse and report on all of the attention data for research published by their organization, and to benchmark this alongside other items in the Altmetric database.
The objective of the work is to gather expert advice, experience the tools and visualize their potential use through a demo based on NRCan outputs. The work will also inform and contribute to ongoing assessments of alternative metrics and their value added for NRCan, specifically as relates to non-scholastic non-DOI (Digital Object Identifier) type outputs.
Through this pilot, NRCan will obtain access to expertise, advice and tools including a demo portraying NRCan structure connected to knowledge products with DOIs from contract award to March 31st, 2018. Meetings with focus groups of NRCan experts and supplier experts, the associated demo, and access to the tool will allow for an assessment of the potential value added.
3. Criteria for Assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that it meets the following requirements:
4. Trade Agreements
N/A - Not Applicable
5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
We intend to deal directly with the supplier mentioned in section 10 below as, it is the only known supplier that meets the mandatory criteria set out in section 3 above as well as provide the services described in Section 2.
Should Canada receive a statement of capabilities from a supplier that contains sufficient information to indicate that it meets the requirements set forth in this ACAN, a competitive process will be triggered with a technical and financial evaluation methodology of the bids proposed by the potential bidders.
6. Exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
The following exception(s) to the Government Contracts Regulations is (are) invoked for this procurement under subsection: 6(d) – “only one person is capable of performing the work).
The identified provider, Altmetric from Digital Science is the only one able to meet all of the criteria identified in paragraph 3 above.
7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
N/A - Not applicable
8. Ownership of Intellectual Property
Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed contract will vest in the Contractor.
9. Contract Period
The contract period will be from contract award to March 31, 2018.
10. Estimated Cost
The estimated maximum value of the contract including one (1) option period is $80,682.00 CAD (taxes included).
The estimated cost of the pilot is set at $33,300.00 CAD. If the pilot is deemed successful, there is an option to extend the contract period for twelve months, for an additional estimated cost of $38,100.00 CAD for a total of $71,400.00 CAD (excluding taxes).
11. Name and Address of the Proposed Contractor
Digital Science
2nd Floor
625 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA
02139, USA
Monika Dunbar
Director, North American Non-Profit Funders and Provincial Governments
Digital Science
+1 202-681-2144
12. Suppliers’ right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a Statement of Capabilities in writing, preferably by e-mail, to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date and time of this Notice. The Statement of Capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
13. Closing Date
The closing date for the submission of a statement of capabilities is January 12, 2018 at 14:00 Pacific Standard Time).
14. Contract Authority
Gerald Baran
Senior Procurement Officer
Natural Resources Canada
Finance and Procurement Branch
506 West Burnside Road
Victoria, British Columbia, V8Z 1M5
Telephone: 250-298-2502
Email: gerald.baran@canada.ca
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