Develop a user interface for hazard and risk information to be used across Canada
Solicitation number 144504
Publication date
Closing date and time 2018/02/15 17:00 EST
Description
ADVANCE CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE (ACAN)
1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2. Definition of Requirements
The requirement to design and develop a user interface to engage and share hazard and risk information and foster a collaborative network of risk practitioners across Canada with the stated parameters.
3. Criteria for Assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that it meets the following requirements:
1) The provider must have previously designed, developed and implemented an interactive web application that allows mapping Census data;
2) The provider must possess an existing and functional interactive web application that includes:
- Capability of creating interactive Canada-wide custom maps based on Census data;
- Capability of downloading census variable;
- Capability of exploring Census data for specific geographies and;
- Technology that translates census information into a geospatial format.
4. Trade Agreements
Not applicable
5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
We intend to deal directly with the supplier mentioned in section 10 below as; it is the only known supplier that meets the mandatory criteria set out in section 3 above.
Should Canada receive a statement of capabilities from a supplier that contains sufficient information to indicate that it meets the requirements set forth in this ACAN; this non-competitive process will be abandoned and a competitive process will be pursued as appropriate with a technical and financial evaluation methodology of the bids proposed by the potential bidders.
6. Exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
The following exception(s) to the Government Contracts Regulations is invoked for this procurement under subsection: 6(d) – “only one person is capable of performing the work”.
The identified provider, MountainMath Software, is the only one able to meet all of the criteria identified in paragraph 3 above.
7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
Not applicable
8. Contract Period
The contract period will be from Award to 31 March 2018.
9. Estimated Cost
The estimated maximum value of the contract is $48,384.00 CAD inclusive.
10. Name and Address of the Proposed Contractor
MountainMath Software
TH25 – 6093 Iona Drive
Vancouver, BC, Canada
11. Suppliers’ right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a Statement of Capabilities in writing, preferably by e-mail, to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date and time of this Notice. The Statement of Capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
12. Closing Date
The closing date for a submission of a Statement of Capabilities is February 15, 2018.
13. Contract Authority
Ruth Elkington
Telephone: (250) 298-2515
E-mail address: Ruth.Elkington@canada.ca
Contract duration
Refer to the description above for full details.
Trade agreements
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No trade agreements are applicable to this solicitation process
Contact information
Contracting organization
- Organization
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Natural Resources Canada
- Address
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580 Booth StOttawa, Ontario, K1A 0E4Canada
- Contracting authority
- Elkington, Ruth
- Phone
- 250-298-2515
- Email
- ruth.elkington@canada.ca
- Address
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506 W Burnside RoadVictoria, BC, V8Z 1M5CA
Buying organization(s)
- Organization
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Natural Resources Canada
- Address
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580 Booth StOttawa, Ontario, K1A 0E4Canada
Bidding details
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