Cardboard Boxes for Forms

OBJECTIVE

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has a requirement for the supply and delivery of boxes to the National Forms Distribution Centre in Winnipeg.  These boxes are required to ship forms and other materials of specific sizes to various destinations.

This is a retender of a Request for Proposal (RFP) that closed on September 30th, 2013. The retender is required because no compliant bids were received. As this is a retender, and the product specifications were not changed, the time allotted between the RFP posting date and bid closing date has been reduced.  Please refer to the section titled RFP Closing Date for details. 


PERIOD OF THE CONTRACT

The Contract will be for an Initial Contract Period of one (1) year, commencing from date of Contract award.  The resultant Contract will include an irrevocable option to the CRA to extend the period of the Contract for up to two (2) additional one (1) year option periods, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contract, and in accordance with the Basis of Payment.  


ARIBA SUPPLIER NETWORK REQUIREMENT 

The CRA has adopted the Ariba Spend Management suite (branded internally as Synergy) to expedite its ordering process under any resulting Contract. The successful Bidder must become a member of the ASN prior to Contract award, and maintain membership in the ASN throughout the period of any resulting Contract.  All costs associated with this membership must be borne by the Bidder.

CONTRACTOR SELECTION METHODOLOGY

The evaluation of proposals will be performed in five (5) steps as follows:

Step 1 –          Evaluation against Mandatory Criteria
Step 2 –          Evaluation of Financial Proposals
Step 3 –          Selection 
Step 4 –          Conditions Precedent to Contract Entry (this includes Proof of Synergy Compliance Testing)
Step 5 –          Contract Entry

The CRA reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

RFP CLOSING DATE:

Bids must be received on or before November 14th, 2013, no later than 2:00 p.m EST, at the following address:

Canada Revenue Agency
Bid Receiving Unit
Ottawa Technology Centre
Receiving Dock
875 Heron Road
Room D-95
Ottawa, ON  K1A 1A2


CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

All enquiries regarding this Request for Proposal must be directed in WRITING (see email address below) to:

Katherine Hutton
Senior Supply / Business Analyst	
	
Canada Revenue Agency	
Administration Directorate
Contracting Division
250 Albert St., 8th Floor
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0L5	

Telephone: (613) 946-0790	
Facsimile: (613) 957-6655	
E-mail: Katherine.hutton@cra-arc.gc.ca


Please refer to the solicitation documents for further information and instructions regarding this opportunity.