Petroleum Engineering and Technical Services

TITLE: Petroleum Engineering and Technical Services

TRADE AGREEMENTS:

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT:

The purpose of this requirement is to award Regional Individual Standing Offers to provide specialized petroleum storage tank engineering and technical services to Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Real Property Safety and Security (RPSS) Maritimes and Gulf Regions.

DFO requires the petroleum engineering and associated technical services on an “as requested” basis for the following types of projects:

1. Provide technical advice, recommendations, proposals, tender-ready specifications, construction drawings and cost estimates for the installation, operation, expansion, modification, removal and/or decommissioning of storage tank systems (petroleum or allied petroleum products) to DFO staff throughout the Maritimes and Gulf Regions.
2. Provide on-going specialist advice to DFO staff with respect to day-to-day operational and technical issues, as required.
3. Review on behalf of DFO, technical proposals and engineering drawings received from suppliers for the installation and /or major upgrades to fuel delivery and storage systems on DFO properties in terms of compliance to applicable regulations, codes and standards. This involves discussions with proponents on behalf of DFO with respect to technical compliance as well as the recommendation to DFO for the acceptance and/or rejection of technical proposals or drawings.
4. Prepare digital auto-cad engineering construction and as-built drawings of proposed storage tank systems meeting all applicable regulations, codes and standards, which must be signed off and stamped by a licensed professional engineer.
5. Provide consulting services during project tendering and construction phases including: technical support during tendering, review of shop drawings, project start up meetings, and completion of substation completion reviews. 

DURATION OF STANDING OFFER

The period for making call-ups against the Standing Offer is from Standing offer award to June 30, 2019 with option to renew for two (2) additional one (1) year periods.

ENQUIRIES – BID SOLICITATION

All enquiries must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Authority no later than EIGHT (8) calendar days before the bid closing date. Enquiries received after that time may not be answered.

PROCESS AND SELECTION METHODOLOGY

Highest Combined Rating of Technical Merit and Price

1. To be declared responsive, a bid must:
   1. comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; and
   2. meet all mandatory criteria; and
      1. Obtain the required minimum of 66 points overall for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating.
         The rating is performed on a scale of 83 points.

1. Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive.

   SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

There is no security requirement associated with this bid solicitation.