Regional Standing Offer for Laboratory Analytical Services

OBJECTIVES OF THE REQUIREMENT

The objective of this Request for Standing Offer is to award Standing Offer Agreements (SOA) for up to five (5) suppliers who can provide Laboratory Analytical Services to meet the specific needs described below.

SCOPE OF WORK

The Regional Office of Environmental Coordination (ROEC) within Real Property Safety & Security (RPSS) of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans-Pacific Region conducts and manages site assessment, site characterization and environmental audit projects on federal lands. These projects involve assessments of contaminants in air, soil, soil vapour, sediments, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, pore water, building materials, and plant and animal tissues. While each site may have specific parameters of concern, ROEC will typically request analyses of analytic groups (e.g., total metals or PAH compounds), with analytical results to be provided for specific parameters (e.g., lead or benzo[a]pyrene) within each group.

ROEC routinely analyzes for organic and inorganic parameters listed in:

a) CCME Canadian Environmental Quality Criteria for Contaminated Sites

b) Environmental Management Act Contaminated Sites Regulation (Schedules 4-7, 9, 10 and 11)

c) Environmental Management Act Hazardous Waste Regulation (leachability testing).

d) Canada Wide Standards for Petroleum Hydrocarbons (CWS_PHC’s) (organic parameters, including grain size analysis for soil samples)

The assessment objectives for ROEC projects require analytical method detection limits that do not exceed the most stringent of these criteria/guidelines/standards.

PERIOD OF STANDING OFFER

The services are to be performed on an “as and when required” basis during the period from date of award to 30 September, 2028 inclusively.

SECURITY

There is no security requirement for this contract. The Company working under this Standing Offer Agreement must not be given access to sensitive information or assets, and must be escorted at all times while on DFO premises.

TRADE AGREEMENTS

The requirement is subject to the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA), Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement, Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA), Canada–Ukraine Free Trade Agreement, Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement, World Trade Organization–Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-GPA), and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS

Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the mandatory evaluation criteria as detailed herein. Bidders’ Proposals must clearly demonstrate that they meet all Mandatory Requirements for the proposal to be considered for further evaluation. Proposals not meeting the mandatory criteria will be excluded from further consideration.

Mandatory Criteria

M1 The Offeror must hold the certification by the Standards Council of Canada – Canadian Association for Laboratory Association (SCC – CALA) at time of bid close.

M2 The Offeror must provide two (2) relevant lab analytical services projects completed within the last five (5) years.

M3 The Offeror’s proposed resource as the Senior Technical Specialist must have a minimum of 120 months (10 years) work experience related to contaminated sites analyses within the last 120 months (10 years) and must demonstrate this experience by providing relevant completed projects information

M4 The Offeror’s proposed resource as the Project Manager must have a minimum of 96 months (8 years) of Project Management Experience related to contaminated sites analyses, within the last 120 months (10 years) and must demonstrate this experience by providing relevant completed projects information

COMPREHENSIVE LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENTS

The Request for Standing Offers (RFSO) is to establish National Master Standing Offers for the requirement detailed in the RFSO, to the Identified Users across Canada, excluding locations within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, and Labrador that are subject to Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements (CLCAs). Any requirement for deliveries to locations within CLCAs areas within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, or Labrador will have to be treated as a separate procurement, outside of the resulting standing offers.

SELECTION METHOD

The basis of selection is Highest Compliant Combined Rating of Technical Merit and Price.