TASK BASED INFORMATICS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (TBIPS) FOR Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)

This procurement is set aside for Aboriginal Business under the federal government’s Set-Aside Program for Aboriginal Business (PSAB). In order to be considered, firms must certify that they qualify as an Aboriginal business as defined in the PSAB and that they will comply with all requirements of PSAB. SA Holders may not submit a bid in response to this bid solicitation unless they have been invited to do so.

Tendering Procedure: Selective Tendering

This requirement is open only to those TBIPS Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under Tier 1 for services in the National Capital Region under the EN578-170432 series of SAs for the following categories:

• One (1) Level 3 Application / Software Architect under Category A.1 (Applications Services)

• One (1) Level 2 Application / Software Architect under Category A.1 (Applications Services)

The following SA Holders have been invited to submit a proposal:

• Adirondack Information Management Inc., Amita Corporation, Artemp Personnel Services Inc., The AIM Group Inc., in Joint Venture

• ADRM Technology Consulting Group Corp.

• ADRM Technology Consulting Group Corp. and Randstad Interim Inc.

• Alivaktuk Consulting Inc. & NavPoint Consulting Group Inc. in JV

• Dalian Enterprises and Coradix Technology Consulting, in Joint Venture

• Donna Cona Inc.

• Donna Cona Inc., IBM Canada Limited, in Joint Venture

• IDFusion Software Inc.

• MAKWA Resourcing Inc.

• Makwa Resourcing Inc., TPG Technology Consulting Ltd. in Joint Venture

• NATTIQ INC.

• NATTIQ INC., ADGA GROUP CONSULTANTS INC., IN JOINT VENTURE

• Nisha Technologies Inc.

• Symbiotic Group Inc.

• Transpolar Technology Corporation and The Halifax Computer Consulting Group, In Joint Venture

Description of Work:

Bidders must submit a bid for the designated resource categories

Application/Software Architect (Category A.1, Level 2) must perform the following tasks:

• Developing technical architectures, frameworks and strategies, either for an organization or for a major application area, to meet the business and application requirements;

• Identifying the policies and requirements that drive out a particular solution;

• Analyzing and evaluating alternative technology solutions to meet business problems;

• Ensuring the integration of all aspects of technology solutions;

• Monitoring industry trends to ensure that solutions fit with government and industry directions for technology;

• Analyzing functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows;

• Evaluating existing procedures and methods, identifying and documenting database content, structure, and application sub-systems, and developing a data dictionary;

• Defining and documenting interfaces of manual to automated operations within application sub-systems, to external systems and between new and existing systems;

• Defining input/output sources, including detailed plan for technical design phase, and obtaining approval of the system proposal;

• Identifying and documenting system specific standards relating to programming, documentation and testing, covering program libraries, data dictionaries, and naming conventions;

• Using DIAND’s current standard application development framework and tools, which include Windows Server 2008, Internet Information Server, MS Visual Studio (ASP.NET and VB.NET), MS .NET Framework, MS Team Foundation Sever(TFS), MS Web Services Enhancements (WSE), Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise, Oracle Databases and PL/SQL;

• Using an RUP SDLC methodology; and

• Any other tasks related to the type of work normally performed under this category, and;

• Provide expert advice on technical architectures, frameworks and strategies.

Application/Software Architect (Category A.1, Level 3) must perform the above tasks for Level 2 in addition to the following task:

• Supervision of Level 2 Application/Software Architects and/or other Level 2 resources.

Security Requirement: Common PS SRCL #6 applies

Minimum Corporate Security Required: Designed Organization Screening (DOS)

Minimum Resource Security Required: Reliability Status