Initiative (ETI) and Data Centre Consolidation Initiative (DCC)

Solicitation number 10140269-A

Publication date

Closing date and time 2014/09/25 14:00 EDT


    Description
    Data Centre Consolidation Initiative (DCC):
    
    Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) in partnership with Shared Services Canada SSC is driving the modernization of IT across government.  The DCC is a fundamental part of this IT modernization strategy.  Under this initiative, Departmental applications will be migrated to consolidated data centres starting in 2015 with a target end-date of 2017.  In preparation for this migration, Departments are expected to align their existing applications to a set of DCC platform and application standards.  Applications that do not align with DCC standards will not be supported on SSC infrastructure.  As Canadian Heritage (PCH) no longer owns the necessary infrastructure to support these applications, there is significant risk that they would effectively be rendered inoperative, impacting the Department’s ability to deliver its programs and services.
      
    Email Transformation Initiative (ETI):
    
    As directed by TBS, federal departments will be migrating to the government-wide common email service based on the Microsoft Outlook/Exchange platform.  The Email Transformation Initiative (ETI) has been planned by Shared Services Canada in 3 waves, with departmental readiness starting now for all, and with the first wave to be completed in June 2014, the second in October 2014, and the third in March 2015.  PCH has been identified as a Wave 2 department, given the complexity of the project, which will result in our migration to the common email platform by October 2014.
    The replatforming of existing Lotus Notes applications will span 3 years, completing within fiscal year 2016-17.  The Lotus Notes development environment will only be supported by the Government of Canada (GC) for a limited timeframe and as such PCH needs to stop use all aspects of Lotus Notes.

    Contract duration

    Refer to the description above for full details.

    Trade agreements

    • World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO GPA)
    • Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement
    • Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
    • Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA)
    • Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
    • Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA)
    • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
    Contact information

    Contracting organization

    Organization
    Canadian Heritage
    Address
    1030 Innes Road
    Ottawa, Ontario, K1B4S7
    Canada
    Contracting authority
    Seguin, Line
    Phone
    819-997-2389
    Address
    15 Eddy Street
    Gatineau, QC, K1A 0M5
    CA

    Buying organization(s)

    Organization
    Canadian Heritage
    Address
    1030 Innes Road
    Ottawa, Ontario, K1B4S7
    Canada
    Bidding details

    Full details regarding this tender opportunity are available in the documents below. Click on the document name to download the file. Contact the contracting officer if you have any questions regarding these documents.

    Tender documents
    Document title Amendment no. Language Unique downloads Date added
    French
    1
    English
    141

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    Summary information

    Notice type
    Request for Proposal
    Language(s)
    English, French
    Region(s) of delivery
    National Capital Region (NCR)
    Region of opportunity
    Unspecified
    Procurement method
    Competitive - Limited Tendering