Industry Engagement Day Notice - July 9, 2013 – GCNet WAN Services

This is an update to the Notice originally published on June 25, 2013.

On July 9, 2013, the Government of Canada (GC / Canada) hosted the half-day event described in this Notice.  The purpose of this half-day event was to provide a forum for Canada to engage industry in a presentation on the scope, key requirements and procurement strategy for the competitive procurement of the GCNet Wide Area Network (WAN) services.  The event was open to interested suppliers and associations from the information technology (IT) industry, as well as interested public servants. 

The July 9th Industry Engagement Day was followed by three days (July 10 to 12, 2013) of one-on-one meetings (45 minutes long each) with pre-registered suppliers.  

The attached documents provide the following information related to the July 9th Industry Engagement Day and one-on-one meetings:

1.   The presentations made by Canada at the July 9th Industry Engagement Day (10030278A_July 9 Presentations_EN.pdf).

2.   A summary of the July 9th Industry Engagement Day (10030278A_Report_EN.pdf).  This document includes the list of the suppliers who attended the July 9th Industry Engagement Day and the list of the suppliers who participated in the one-on-one meetings. This document also includes the questions posed by Industry at the July 9th Industry Engagement Day and Canada’s answers to these questions.  Canada notes that it has clarified the answer it provided at the Industry Engagement Day in response to question 7 d).

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Notice originally published on June 25, 2013:

The Government of Canada (GC / Canada) established Shared Service Canada (SSC) on August 4, 2011 with the mandate to operate and transform the government's IT infrastructure. Under the umbrella of that dual authority, SSC is responsible for providing its 43 partner organizations with modern, reliable and secure IT infrastructure services that are cost-effective and which contribute to a greener government. In the process, SSC is building a new organization from the ground up. 

SSC operates 50 distinct wide area networks interconnecting 3,580 GC-occupied buildings across the 43 partners served by SSC.  These networks have been implemented and managed independently and network infrastructure within GC-occupied buildings is generally not shared between departments resulting in duplication of infrastructure and costs.

On July 9, 2013, Canada will host a half-day event to provide a forum for Canada to engage industry in a presentation on the scope, key requirements and procurement strategy for the competitive procurement of Wide Area Network (WAN) services. 

The GCNet WAN Services Industry Engagement Day session is open to interested suppliers and associations from the IT industry, as well as interested public servants, with priority being given to IT industry participants. Participants are cordially invited to attend either onsite at the National Capital Region location, or, via videoconferencing at three remote locations in Dartmouth, Calgary and Toronto.

The half-day Industry Engagement Day session will be followed by three days of one-on-one meetings (45 minutes long each) with pre-registered suppliers and vendors

Further details about the GCNet WAN Services Industry Engagement Day session and the three (3) days of one-on-one meetings are provided in the attached documents.  Interested participants are requested to download the documents and complete and submit the registration forms by the date indicated in the documents.