Risk Technology

Risk Technology - Request for proposal 	

FCC is Canada’s leading agriculture lender, with a healthy portfolio of more than $26 billion and 20 consecutive years of portfolio growth. FCC is strong and stable – committed to serving the industry through all cycles, and to being socially and environmentally responsible. FCC provides financing, insurance, software, learning programs and other business services to producers, agribusinesses and agri-food operations. Employees understand agriculture and are committed to the success of customers and the industry. With FCC in the market, producers benefit, agriculture benefits, rural Canada benefits and so do all Canadians. For more information, visit www.fcc.ca.


FCC is committed to having risk management policies, processes and practices that are in line with the risks it undertakes and consistent with other financial institutions. A key part of that commitment is risk technology and data management, which are vital to enhancing FCC’s risk maturity.


This RFP is being released to enable the procurement of technologies (software, hardware, methodologies for software or hardware setup/configuration, etc.) to support the risk infrastructure and data management improvement necessary to meet FCC’s risk management needs. RFP respondents may use several software and/or hardware products to fully or partially provide the requested components and support a risk management solution. FCC seeks immediate value and anticipates a three-year build out for the solution. 


This is a request for proposal only. FCC may, at its sole discretion, elect not to accept any submission for any reason. FCC is not obligated to proceed and may cancel this RFP at any time. 


The tentative RFP schedule is as follows:

RFP release:  April 24, 2014
Respondent questions accepted until: May 1, 2014 at 12 p.m. CST
FCC responses to respondent questions provided before:	May 7, 2014 at 12 p.m. CST
RFP closing date: May 16, 2014 at 12 p.m. CST
Oral presentation notification for short-listed vendors: June 11, 2014
Anticipated oral presentations: June 23 to July 11, 2014 
Anticipated selection of preferred vendor: August 11, 2014

Note: The above dates are subject to change at FCC’s sole discretion. Respondents will be advised if they have been selected to continue in the RFP process.  Any changes to the RFP schedule will be communicated to all Respondents that are still under consideration at that point in the process.

To receive a copy of the complete RFP, email Mike Humble, Manager of Corporate Procurement, at mike.humble@fcc.ca.