Reintegration Support for Indigenous Offenders in Urban Centres – PSAB

Request for Standing Offer for the Reintegration Support for Indigenous Offenders in Urban Centres – PSAB (21120-19-3149029-A)

Note: Solicitation 21120-19-3149029-A (PSAB) is being solicited concurrently with solicitation 21120-19-3149029-B (Non-PSAB) for the same requirement.

This requirement is for: The Correctional Service of Canada, in the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Québec and Atlantic regions.

Trade agreement:

This procurement is not subject to any trade agreement.

Tendering procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid.

Competitive Procurement Strategy:

Compliant bid with the highest combined score of technical merit and price.

Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business:

This procurement is set-aside for an Aboriginal Supplier in accordance with the government's Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business (PSAB). Therefore, only suppliers who meet the definition of an Aboriginal business, as defined in the PSAB, may submit a bid.

Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement:

This procurement is not subject to a Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement.

Security Requirements:

This Standing Offer includes security requirements.

Nature of Requirements:

The following is a summary of the statement of work for this requirement.

The Correctional Service Canada has a requirement to deliver services that support the reintegration needs of Indigenous offenders to urban centres.

Objectives:

To improve CSC’s ability to reintegrate Indigenous offenders to urban areas. The intent is to increase CSC’s capacity to acquire the services of Contractors in the release planning process. Contractors will identify and coordinate reintegration support for Indigenous offenders in urban areas, as this is one of the greatest challenges for Indigenous offenders returning to urban centres is identifying traditional Indigenous support and services.

Multiple Standing Offers may be awarded as a result of this Request for Standing Offer. See list below for the minimum / maximum number of Standing Offers that may be awarded for each identified location.

Solicitation 21120-19-3149029-A (PSAB) is being solicited concurrently with solicitation 21120-19-3149029-B (Non-PSAB) for the same requirement. Preference will be given to the responsive/compliant bids for the PSAB solicitation 21120-19-3149029-A. Bids from the Non-PSAB solicitation (21120-19-3149029-B) will only be considered if no responsive bids per institution are received for the PSAB requirement and/or if the list of PSAB suppliers by the institution has been exhausted to fulfil the need for the number of required SO’s per institution.

Institution Name / Aboriginal Intervention Centre (AIC)

Minimum number of SO’s to be awarded per institutional site

Maximum number of SO’s to be awarded per institutional site

1.Nova Institution for Women - Truro, Nova Scotia

1 minimum, 2 maximum

2.Springhill and Dorchester Institutions - Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

1 minimum, 2 maximum

3.Joliette Institution for Women - Joliette, Quebec

1 minimum, 2 maximum

4.Archambault Institution - Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec

1 minimum, 2 maximum

5.Joyceville Institution - Kingston, Ontario

1 minimum, 2 maximum

6.Grand Valley Institution for Women - Kitchener, Ontario

1 minimum, 2 maximum

7.Stony Mountain Institution - Winnipeg, Manitoba

1 minimum, 3 maximum

8.Saskatchewan Penitentiary - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

1 minimum, 3 maximum

9.Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge - Maple Creek, Saskatchewan

1 minimum, 2 maximum

10.Edmonton Institution for Women - Edmonton, Alberta

1 minimum, 2 maximum

11.Drumheller Institution - Drumheller, Alberta

1 minimum, 2 maximum

12.Pacific Institution - Abbotsford, British Columbia

1 minimum, 2 maximum

13.Fraser Valley Institution - Abbotsford, British Columbia

1 minimum, 2 maximum

If more than one standing offer per identified location is awarded for use based on a reasonable expectation of business activity such that a single offeror would lack the capacity to meet the demands, then the ranking methodology will be that of ‘Right of First Refusal’. 

Scope:

The Contractor must provide outreach and engagement with Indigenous offenders, urban community contacts, and CSC personnel, including but not limited to Parole Officers and Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers. The Contractor will be responsible to provide intervention services in Aboriginal Intervention Centres (AIC) at CSC Institutions and the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, and to support the reintegration of Indigenous offenders in urban centres.

The Contractor must provide services including but not limited to delivering trauma or addictions counselling or life skills training or providing support to either prevent affiliation or promote disaffiliation from a gang. The Contractor must also ensure that the offender’s needs (i.e. trauma, addictions, life skills counselling or gang prevention/exit strategies) continue to be met during and after their transition to a community. This obligation may require making arrangements to support another service provider to meet with the offender in their community. Therefore, special attention should be given to this matter during the development of the release plan. It will not be sufficient to merely provide telephone support to an offender who has reintegrated to a community that is a significant distance from the Institution or Healing Lodge where they were incarcerated.

• The Contractor must assist with urban release planning for Indigenous offenders that includes life skills development or preventing affiliation and/or promoting disaffiliation from a gang, or trauma or addictions counselling.
• Urban reintegration success must be enhanced through short and long term planning with Contractors that includes assistance with obtaining culturally appropriate interventions for addictions, trauma or mental health issues, including preventing affiliation or promoting disaffiliation from a gang. Indigenous offenders will also receive assistance to learn life skills, including employment and budgeting skills, how to find transportation and housing, how/where to obtain identification and purchase/prepare nutritious food, and other kinds of life skills as needed.
• Reintegration support services must be provided in institutions to support the transition to the urban community, as well as within urban communities to provide ongoing support to Indigenous offenders upon release.

The Contractor must provide specialized expertise in at least one of the following stream areas:

Stream 1:

Delivering trauma, addictions counselling, or life skills training to Indigenous offenders.

Stream 2:

Providing support to Indigenous offenders to either prevent gang affiliation or promote disaffiliation.

Deliverables:

Stream 1: Delivering trauma, addictions counselling, or life skills training for Indigenous offenders

The Contractor must collect information and prepare quarterly reports in Microsoft Word or Excel on:

• Communication and work completed with CSC personnel, which includes but is not limited to Parole Officers or Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers.
• the delivery of trauma and/or addictions counselling and/or life skills training for Indigenous offenders at CSC’s Aboriginal Intervention Centres in its Institutions or the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge.
• services provided to Indigenous offenders once they are released to a community.

Stream 2: Preventing gang affiliation and promoting gang disaffiliation for Indigenous offenders

The Contractor must collect information and prepare quarterly reports in Microsoft Word or Excel) on:

• Communication and work completed with CSC personnel, which includes but is not limited to Parole Officers or Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers.
• how they are assisting with preventing gang affiliation or promoting gang disaffiliation for Indigenous offenders in the Aboriginal Intervention Centres at CSC Institutions and the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge.
• services provided to Indigenous offenders once they are released to a community.

Term of Standing Offer:

Period of the Standing Offer: The Work is to be performed from date of Standing Offer award to May 31, 2020 with the option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods.

File Number: 21120-19-3149029-A

Contracting Authority: Claudette Chabot

Telephone number: 306-659-9255

E-mail: Claudette.Chabot@csc-scc.gc.ca

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Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada (English or French).

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