ACAN W6369-22P5OH Polar Epsilon NRTSD Site Operations

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. Definition of the Requirement – Background: The DND and CAF require the services of a contractor, on an “as and when requested” basis, to operate the Polar Epsilon - Near Real-Time Ship Detection (NRTSD) System, which delivers to the Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Regional Joint Operations Centres (RJOC) a capability to exploit RADARSAT-2 for all-weather, day and night, active wide area surveillance, for the purposes of contributing to the situational awareness of the maritime approaches to Canada and North America and to foreign littoral areas where the CAF may be deployed.