Global Border Management Consulting Services

This requirement is for: Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA)

File Number: 1000326329

Contracting Authority: Michel Derouin

Phone Number: 343-291-5668

Email: michel.derouin@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca

1. Requirement Summary:

In support of the its transformation strategy, ISTB seeks to retain the services of a global business and technology consultant with broad industry relationships and extensive work experience with the major public sector agencies providing border management services around the world, including significant experience in each of the Travellers, Commercial Goods and Enforcement/Intelligence spheres of work.

This experience will inform the Consultant’s advice regarding the options to address issues, viability and practical challenges related to options, current initiatives and directions in border management and also provide access to a network of contacts for further research.

From initial discussions with Branch senior management and other partners to gain an understanding of the current state, the Consultant will conduct and provide an environmental scan and situational analysis that reflects the direction of other international border services agencies.

The work required will build from an initial environmental scan conducted by the Contracted resource that will include at a minimum research into specific questions related to the direction of Border Technology to more refined advice and research in support of specific questions arising from the initial scan as well as other issues that emerge. A key element is the expectation that the Contracted Resource can provide comment, based on their experience, regarding the actual challenges of implementation of new processes and technologies within National Border Agencies other than the Canada Border Services Agency.

The work Contractor through its contracted resource will be required to engage partners throughout ISTB and CBSA as well as their external business network to seek ideas, options and information that can inform ISTB’s agenda moving forward. While some research will be required for elements of the work, the key component the Contracted resource is to provide the practical, tangible experience achieved through working with border entities to be able to identify the issues and obstacles related to various courses of action including the reasoning behind decisions in those other organizations so that CBSA can choose the most beneficial course of action and achieve transformation with as smoothly and effectively as possible.

2. Period of the Contract

The period of the Contract is for two (2) years from date of Contract.

3. Trade Agreements

The solicitation is subject to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP), the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Canadian-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA) and the Canada-Columbia Free Trade Agreement (CCoFTA).

4. Basis of Selection

4.1 Basis of Selection – Highest Combined Rating of Technical Merit 70% and Price 30% Solicitation No. 1000326329

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4.1.1 To be declared responsive, a bid must:

a. comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; and

b. meet all mandatory criteria; and

c. obtain the required minimum overall for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating.

4.1.2 Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. Neither the responsive bid obtaining the highest number of points nor the one with the lowest evaluated price will necessarily be accepted.

5. Security Requirement

1. At the date of bid closing, the following conditions must be met:

(a) the Bidder must hold a valid organization security clearance as indicated in Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses;

(b) the Bidder's proposed individuals requiring access to classified or protected information, assets or sensitive work site(s) must meet the security requirements as indicated in Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses;

(c) the Bidder must provide the name of all individuals who will require access to classified or protected information, assets or sensitive work sites;

5.1 Additional Security Requirement

The Canada Border Services Agency will conduct its own personnel Reliability Status assessment on the recommended Contractor and its personnel as per the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada’s (TBS) "Security and Contracting Management Standard" and the Policy on Government Security – Personnel Security Standard, irrespective of whether such assessment has already been conducted under any such policies. The Reliability Status assessment conducted by the CBSA will include a credit check performed by an authorized security official with the CBSA’s "Personnel Security Screening Section" (PSSS), which is independent of the Public Works and Government Services Canada’s (PWGSC), "Canadian Industrial Security Directorate" (CISD) and the "International Industrial Security Directorate" (IISD).

For each proposed resource, the recommended Contractor must submit a completed signed original TBS 330-23 Form – Personnel Screening Consent and Authorization (https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbsf-fsct/330-23-eng.asp) upon request of the Contracting Authority prior to Contract Award.

Until the credit check and all other security screening processes required by this Request for Proposal have been completed and the recommended Contractor and its personnel is considered suitable by the CBSA, no contract will be awarded and the recommended Contractor (specifically the Contractor personnel) shall not be permitted access to Protected / Classified information or assets, and further, shall not be permitted to enter sites where such information or assets are kept.

In the event the recommended Contractor (specifically the Contractor personnel) does not pass the security screening process required by the CBSA, the said Contractor’s proposal will be considered non-responsive and the next ranked bidder will be contacted. If only one bid was obtained and the proposed bidder does not meet the security requirement, then, the contracting officer will determine the next steps in order to ensure all requirements are met.

Contractor personnel can include in some instances landlords, property management employees and principles of companies when the latter have access to the premises where the CBSA designated or classified information\assets are kept.