English and/or French Second Language Training
Solicitation number 23-232670
Publication date
Closing date and time 2023/08/21 14:00 EDT
Last amendment date
Description
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) wishes to offer second-language training to post-secondary recruitment process candidates to help them achieve the CCC language profile.
The objective of this process is to hire up to four offerors to provide full-time or part-time English and/or French language training services, depending on the candidates’ needs. The programs will be the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) Communicative English at Work Program (CEWP) A, B and C for Francophones and the Programme de français langue seconde (PFL2) A, B and C for Anglophones. In both cases, the short program will be used unless otherwise specified. Offerors are invited to enhance these programs by adding one or more internal programs.
Each Offeror must propose seven teachers and one pedagogical adviser to the Department to carry out the tasks outlined in the Statement of Work.
Depending on the requirements identified by DFATD when the call-up is issued, the Offeror will provide full time or part-time English and/or French language training, either in class or virtually, to groups ranging in size from one to six students. Depending on their first official language, candidates will have received an assessment of their language training needs based on the CSPS CEWP A, B and C or PFL2 A, B and C. Candidates who need less training will be added at later dates. All candidates must achieve level CCC in their second language in accordance with the standards of the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC).
Most of the work to be performed is already defined. However, the nature and timing of the training groups will not be known until the service is required, during the period identified in the Standing Offer (SO). Training could start with just one person per class. Should this be the case, other students may be added at a later date to complete one or more groups.
There are security requirements associated with the requirement of the Standing Offer. For additional information, see Part 6 - Security, Financial and Insurance Requirements, and Part 7 - Standing Offer and Resulting Contract Clauses.
Contract duration
The estimated contract period will be 18 month(s), with a proposed start date of 2023/09/05.
Trade agreements
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO GPA)
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Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA)
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Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA)
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Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
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Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement
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Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement
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Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA)
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Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
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Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
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Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA)
Reason for limited tendering
A contracting officer can use limited tendering for specific reasons outlined in the applicable trade agreements. The reason for this contract is described below:
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None
Businesses interested in partnering for this tender opportunity:
Note: Information may not be available in both English and French. This is because the Official Languages Act does not apply.
Contact information
Contracting organization
- Organization
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Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
- Address
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200, Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0G4Canada
- Contracting authority
- Assane Ndiaye
- Phone
- (613) 791-7185
- Email
- assane.ndiaye@international.gc.ca
- Address
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200, Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0G4Canada
Bidding details
Full details regarding this tender opportunity are available in the documents below. Click on the document name to download the file. Contact the contracting officer if you have any questions regarding these documents.
Document title | Amendment no. | Language | Unique downloads | Date added |
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23-232670 - Addendum 001 - English and French Second Language Training.pdf | 001 |
English
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18 | |
23-232670 - Addenda 001 - Formation linguistique en anglais et en français langue seconde.pdf | 001 |
French
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4 | |
23-232670 - RFSO - English and French Second Language Training.pdf | 001 |
English
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23 | |
23-232670 - DOC - Formation linguistique en anglais et en français langue seconde.pdf | 001 |
French
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18 |
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