Technical Assistance Partnership Expert Deployment Mechanism (TAP-EDM),
Solicitation number 105343
Publication date
Closing date and time 2020/01/28 13:00 EST
Description
- This Notice of Proposed Procurement (NPP) is issued in support of an anticipated solicitation for the Technical Assistance Partnership Expert Deployment Mechanism (TAP-EDM), Project Number P-007729 approved by the Minister of International Development on August 13, 2019.
- Global Affairs Canada (GAC) has selected the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) to lead this solicitation process. CCC will be responsible for all notices and bid solicitation documents.
- The TAP-EDM aims to increase the capacity of GAC to enable demand driven-deployments of Canadian expertise abroad on priorities related to the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) in response to expressed needs from national level institutions in ODA-eligible countries. TAP-EDM will offer a toolkit of technical assistance activities to meet expressed needs of national level institutions, which may include, but will not be limited to: trainings, advisory supports, policy research, institutional development and technical visits in a broad variety of domains.
- The program will deploy Canadian experts over a four (4) year period, with a number of deployments per year to fluctuate depending on demand, but is expected to be in the range of thirty (30) deployments per year.
- To implement these deployments, GAC will enter into a service contract with a Canadian implementing entity (IE). Once the technical assistance activities are approved by GAC headquarters in Ottawa the implementing entity (IE) will be responsible for, among other things:
- working with Canadian missions and partner country governments to define and identify technical assistance activities for the project,
- undertaking solicitations and executing contracts to procure the required technical expertise to respond to country requests; and
- managing all administrative contracting and logistical elements of such deployments, including travel, security and pre-deployment training, monitoring and reporting results and lessons learned to the department, as well as recommending post-deployment communications plans.
- The implementing entity (IE) will need to be familiar with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, rules for development projects and results-based management.
- No trade agreement applies to this requirement.
- The successful bidder is required to be a Canadian entity.
- The successful bidder will be subject to the Federal Contractors Program for Employment Equity.
- There will be security requirements associated with participating in the TAP-EDM. Additional information will be provided in the bid document when issued.
- A Request for Information document is anticipated to be released in the first quarter of 2020, with additional bid documents to be released to the public in the early spring.
Contract duration
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Trade agreements
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No trade agreements are applicable to this solicitation process
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Contact information
- Contracting authority
- Prevost, Andrew
- Email
- bids@ccc.ca
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