IT Review and Plan

This bid solicitation is being issued to satisfy the requirement of The Office of the DND/CAF Ombudsman’s Office (the "Client") for Task-Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS) under the TBIPS Supply Arrangement (SA) method of supply.

It is intended to result in the award of [1] contract for [6] months or until the work is completed, plus [12] one-month irrevocable options allowing Canada to extend the term of the contract(s).

There is a security requirement associated with this requirement. For additional information, see Part 6 – Security Requirements, and Part 7 – Resulting Contract Clauses. Bidders should consult the "Security Requirements on PWGSC Bid Solicitations – Instructions for Bidders" document on the Departmental Standard Procurement Documents (http://ssi-iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca) Website

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), the Canada-Columbia Free Trade Agreement (CColFTA), the Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement, the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA), and the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement (CPanFTA) if it is in force.

The TBIPS Supply Arrangement EN578-170432 is incorporated by reference and forms part of this bid solicitation, as though expressly set out in it, subject to any express terms and conditions contained in this bid solicitation. The capitalized terms not defined in this bid solicitation have the meaning given to them in the TBIPS SA. 

Only selected TBIPS SA Holders currently holding a TBIPS SA for Tier 1 in the National Capital Region (NCR) under the EN578-170432 series of SAs are invited to compete. SA Holders may not submit a bid in response to this bid solicitation unless they have been invited to do so. However, should an uninvited SA Holder wish to be invited, it may contact the Contracting Authority to request an invitation at any time prior to five business days before the published bid closing date, and an invitation will be made to that SA Holder unless it would not be consistent with the efficient operation of the procurement system. In no circumstance will such an invitation require Canada to extend a bid closing date. The following SA Holders have been initially invited to bid on this requirement. Where additional invitations are made during the bid solicitation process, it may be that they are not reflected in a solicitation amendment:

•  Altis Human Resources (Ottawa) Inc., and Excel Human Resources Inc., in Joint Venture
• C3SA CYBERNETIC SECURITY AUDIT INC.
•  Calian Ltd.
•  CALIAN LTD., DWP SOLUTIONS INC., IN JOINT VENTURE
• CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Inc.
• Cistel Technology Inc.
• Emerion
• IBISKA Telecom Inc.
• Protak Consulting Group Inc
• Randstad Interim Inc.
• Somos Consulting Group Ltd.
• TEKSYSTEMS CANADA CORP./SOCIÉTÉ TEKSYSTEMS CANADA
• Thinking Big Information Technology Inc.
• TPG Technology Consulting Ltd.
• Veritaaq Technology House Inc.

SA Holders that are invited to compete as a joint venture must submit a bid as that joint venture SA Holder, forming no other joint venture to bid. Any joint venture must be already qualified under the SA #EN578-170432 as that joint venture at the time of bid closing in order to submit a bid.

The purpose of the requirement is to obtain the services of an IT Professional firm to conduct a review of the current IT environment at the Office of the Ombudsman DND/CAF and to prepare a plan for update and reconciliation of the key components of that environment.

The general objective is to standardize, and improve accessibility to, the technology and online services available to staff at the Office of the Ombudsman DND/CAF for the performance of their operational tasks.

The Resource Categories described below are required on an as and when requested basis in accordance the TBIPS Categories of Personnel Descriptions (http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/sptb-tbps/categories-eng.html):

• Project Manager
• IM Architect
• Network Analyst
• Platform Analyst
• Technology Architect
• PKI¹
• Privacy¹
• Security¹
• SSL¹

¹ Note regarding “Security & Privacy Analysis” (PKI; Privacy; Security; SSL):

It is quite conceivable that a single resource could possess those cross-sectional skills, especially as the experience level of PKI and SSL is not expected to be of an advance nature