Professional and Technical Services for Development of Decision Support Tools in Agriculture Meteorology

ADVANCED CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Professional and Technical Services for Development of Decision Support Tools in Agriculture Meteorology. 

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) is a notification through the open bidding methodology of the intent to award a directed contract. 

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, the competitive requirements of the government’s contracting policy have been met. Following notification to suppliers not successful in demonstrating that their statements of capabilities meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contract may then be awarded using the Treasury Board’s electronic bidding authorities.

If other potential suppliers submit Statements of Capabilities during the fifteen calendar day posting period, and meet the requirements set out in the ACAN, the department or agency must proceed to a full tendering process on either the government’s electronic tendering service or through traditional means, in order to award the contract.

Scope of Work:
	
The mandate shall be to provide professional and technical services for the continued development of decision support tools in agricultural meteorology disseminated through the AgWeather Quebec and AgWeather Atlantic  websites, using the processing and visualization computer system developed by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) of the University of Oklahoma and adapted by the Quebec department of natural resources, the Ministère des Ressources naturelles du Québec (MRN) (OCS-MRN system: WeatherScope, WeatherMapper and the data quality control software).

Suppliers’ right to submit a Statement of Capabilities: 

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services described herein, may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date of this Notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the stated requirements.

Closing date for the submission of the Statement of Capabilities: September 2nd 2014 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)

Inquiries and Submission of Statements of Capabilities: Requests for information shall be submitted IN WRITING to the contracting authority: 

Gabrielle Raina Plouffe
Contract Officer
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
2001 University, suite 671 TEN
Montréal QC  H3A 3N2
gabrielle.plouffe@agr.gc.ca
Tel.: (514) 315-6123
Fax: (514) 283-3143