RFP – Environmental Compliance Auditors

Request for Proposal (RFP) – Environmental Compliance Auditors

BACKGROUND

DND has a requirement for the provision of professional services in the area of environmental compliance auditing for the Director General of Environment and Sustainable Management (DGESM).

REQUIREMENT

It is intended to result in the award of one (1) Contract for one (1) year, plus two (2) one (1)-year irrevocable options allowing Canada to extend the term of the Contract.

Tasks and Deliverables are detailed in Annex “A” of the Request for Proposal.

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Mandatory Technical Criteria include the following:

MANDATORY TECHNICAL CRITERION (MT)

THE BIDDER’S PROPOSED RESOURCES: TWO (2) ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AUDITORS

MT1: The Bidder must demonstrate that each of the proposed resources have a valid Compliance Auditor – Environmental Professional (Compliance Environmental Auditor (CEA)) certification as per the Canadian Environmental Certification Accreditation Board (https://www.eco.ca/EPRoster/)

The resources must each be listed in the Canadian Environmental Certification Accreditation Board registry.

MT2: The Bidder must demonstrate that each of the proposed resources have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in environmental compliance auditing since obtaining their CEA.

MT3: The Bidder must demonstrate that each of the proposed resources have completed a minimum of five (5) environmental compliance audits in the last two (2) years that focused on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and its regulations, as well as provincial and territorial environmental acts and their regulations.

The Bidder must provide the following information for each audit:

• Organization name;
• Role (e.g. lead auditor or auditor);
• Timeframe (month/year to month/year);
• Number of total days spent on the audit (e.g. document review and on site);
• Environmental considerations, regulations, or policies that were part of the compliance audit requirements; and
• Description of audit that includes the nature of the client’s organization, audit scope, and approximate number of employees.

If the Bidder submits more than five (5) environmental compliance audits, only the first five (5) in order of presentation will be evaluated.

The Bidder must provide the following customer reference information for each of the environmental compliance audits:

• Contact name;
• Current contact phone number;
• Position title; and
• Organization/company name, and
• Address.

The references must confirm that the proposed resources worked on the referenced environmental compliance audits.

MT4: The Bidder must demonstrate that each of the proposed resources have completed a minimum of three (3) environmental compliance audits for federal departments, agencies or crown corporations in the last five (5) years. 

The Bidder must provide the following information for each of the audit:

• Organization name;
• Role (e.g. lead auditor or auditor);
• Timeframe (month/year to month/year);
• Total number of days spent on the audit (document review and on site);
• Environmental considerations, regulations, or policies that were part of the compliance audit requirements; and
• Description of audit that includes the nature of the client’s organization, audit scope, and approximate number of employees.

If the Bidder submits more than three (3) environmental compliance audits, only the first three (3) in order of presentation will be evaluated.

The Bidder may propose the same environmental compliance audits as referenced in MT3 or may propose different environmental compliance audits.

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The Mandatory Technical Criteria and Point Rated Technical Criteria are detailed in the Request for Proposal (RFP). 

Where this notice and the RFP differ, the RFP will prevail.

The Department of National Defence reserves the right not to award a Contract, regardless of the responses it receives.