Annual Maintenance and Support Renewal for Trinity/Genesis/Kinex licenses

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 department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has a requirement to

renew support and maintenance fees for its Genesis-Kinex-Trinity 3D software

licenses.

Key requirements of this support and maintenance packages are listed below:

• Comprehensive dedicated online tutorials that allow the novice user to

rapidly acquire proficiency in the use of all software components and apply

the technology to relevant geological and geochemical problems to

produce rapid and meaningful results.

• The online help should include downloadable example files as well as

peripheral tools and datasets in T3 format to aid in the constraint of model

boundary conditions e.g. global heat flow, global source rock distributions,

Global CRUST 1.0 grids.

• Personal 1on1 support given directly by the software developer, via

telephone or by online web-collaborative tools such as GoToMeeting. The

supporting software engineer will have a thorough and demonstrable

understanding of the geological issues that can be addressed using the

modeling software applications and comprehensive knowledge of proxy

scenarios worldwide, with evidence of this through via international

recognition of his or her expertise in this field of geotechnology.

• Response time usually of <24hours from the logging of a non-superfluous

issue with follow up support given as appropriate.

• Rapid release of new functionality and debugging of reported issues with

several new versions of each application (Genesis, Kinex, Trinity T3) per

year to reflect the dynamic evolution of the user-requirements

3. Criteria for Assessment of the Statement of Capabilities

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities

that its support system meets the following requirements in order to provide

support for the Zetware Trinity T3 software suite including Genesis 1D burial

history modeling and Kinex kerogen kinetic analysis applications:

• The supplier must release new versions more than once per year of all basin modeling application components available to all users for download at the users’ convenience online via a secure, password-protected website
• The new versions of the software must seamlessly accept (via drag and drop) and generate file formats compatible with other geological (GeoScout, AccuMap), geophysical (Geoframe, Kingdom Suite), and GIS (ArcGIS) applications currently used at NRCan.
• Troubleshooting for software technical requirements and its geologicalapplicability must be available by direct telephone with a response time to resolve most issues of <48hours.
• User issues must be addressed by the software developer and expert petroleum systems analyst (not separately) via either telephone or email.
• For issues requiring real time support, this must be available by direct intervention to the users workstation using web-conferencing tools such as
• GoToMeeting such that the issue can be clearly communicated directly to the software developer.

4. Trade Agreements

This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement(s):

North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA);

Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA);

5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier

We intend to deal directly with the supplier mentioned in section 11 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, a competitive process will be triggered 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 (are)

invoked for this procurement under subsection :

6(d) – only one person is capable of performing the work

The identified provider, ZetaWare, is the only one able to meet all of the criteria

identified in paragraph 3 above.

7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons

The following exclusion(s) and/or limited tendering reasons are invoked under

the:

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Article 1016, 2, b

Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA): Article 513 b

8. Ownership of Intellectual Property

Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed

contract will vest in the Contractor.

9. Contract Period

The contract period will be from March 1st, 2018 to February 28, 2019.

Option for 3 years:

1. from March 1st, 2019 to February 28, 2020

2. from March 1st, 2020 to February 28, 2021

3. from March 1st, 2021 to February 28, 2022

10. Estimated Cost

The estimated value of the firm price is $ 50,000.00 CAD taxes included.

The estimated value of the optional years price is $150,000.00 CAD taxes

included.

For a total estimated value of $ 200,000.00 CAD taxes included.

11. Name and Address of the Proposed Contractor

ZetaWare, Inc.

2299 Lone Star Drive, unit 403,

Sugar Land, Texas

USA

77479

12. 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.

13. Closing Date

The closing date for a submission of a Statement of Capabilities is February 21,

2018 at 14:00 Eastern Standard Time.

14. Contract Authority

Catherine Boilard

1055, rue du PEPS

Quebec QC G1V 4C7

Canada

1-418-648-5654

catherine.boilard@canada.ca