ACQUISITION AND CORRELATION REVIEW SERVICES

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), National Forensic Laboratory Services (NFLS) is seeking a minimum of two proposed resources and up to a maximum of six resources to provide professional services for conducting digital image acquisitions of fired bullets/expended cartridge cases onto the Ottawa RCMP IBIS Instrument and conducting the correlation reviews of the acquired digital images.

Canadian Content Certification;

This procurement is limited to Canadian services.

The period of the Contract is date of contract award for a six (6) month period.

The Contractor grants to Canada the irrevocable option to extend the term of the Contract for up to three (3) additional six (6) month option periods under the same conditions. The Contractor agrees that, during the extended period of the Contract, it will be paid in accordance with the applicable provisions as set out in the Basis of Payment.

Mandatory Requirements:

Any proposal which fails to meet the following Mandatory Requirements will be deemed non-responsive and will not be given further consideration. Each requirement should be addressed separately.

At bid closing time, the Bidder must comply with the following Mandatory Requirements and provide the necessary documentation to support compliance.

Mandatory Bidder Requirement:

M1 The bidder must provide a minimum of two resource resumes and up to a maximum of six resumes.

M2 The bidder must have completed a minimum of two (2) projects in the last five (5) years that demonstrate experience in each of the following:

• Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) acquisition
• Correlation review

Summary of Project to include:

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Description

Contractor/Lab

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Mandatory Resource Requirements:

M3  The resume of each proposed resource must have a minimum of five (5) years demonstrated experience in the field of Integrated Ballistics Identification System acquisition and correlation reviews.

M4  The resume of each proposed resource must have BrassTrax, BulletTrax and MatchPoint training under the Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) from a certified Forensic Technology Inc. (FTI) trainer as FTI has the exclusive ownership and rights to the technology.

M5  The resume of each proposed resource must have a minimum of two (2) years demonstrated experience using each of the following:

• Brass Trax
• Bullet Trax
• Match Point for the acquisition of the exhibits.

Basis of Selection – Mandatory Technical Criteria

A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract.

Offers must be submitted ONLY to the RCMP Bid Receiving Unit by the date, time and place indicated on Page 1 of the bid solicitation.

This requirement is subject to the following Trade Agreement:

• Agreement on Internal Trade – AIT

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.

RCMP has adopted the Integrity Regime administered by PSPC. As a result, the integrity provisions are being applied in RCMP contracting activities as outlined in this solicitation.

The RCMP has published its National Procurement Plan for 2016-2017. For further information, please see link:

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/fr/plan-national-dapprovisionnement-grc

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/rcmp-national-procurement-plan