Building Energy Spatial Data Interoperability Research

1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.

2. Definition of the requirement

The Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has a requirement to develop and use the geospatial standards-based solutions to improve the accessibility and use of building energy data. The overall objective is to establish data models and geospatial standards interfaces that will support the establishment of an Energy Spatial Data Infrastructure for Canada.

The work will involve research, development, and where possible, use of geospatial standards-based approaches to improve flows of building energy information. Work will be completed in the context of a municipal building information interoperability scenario through the following tasks:

A. Data Models – develop a draft data model for key building energy datasets to enable interoperability at the data level. The potential of existing data models to support this requirements shall be evaluated.

B. Geospatial Standards – explore how existing or new Application Programming Interface (API) standards can support building energy interoperability at the service level. The task will leverage outcomes from data model development undertaken in Task A.

Outputs and outcomes from all tasks shall be designed such that they can be immediately leveraged within standards development and innovation activities of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities (Minimum Essential Requirements)

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that it meets the following requirements:

o The vendor MUST be a recognized Standards Development Organization (SDO) by the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management of the Statistics Division of the United Nations.

o The vendor MUST have an existing program that builds and tests innovative international standards-based geospatial solutions with an open international forum composed of governments, commercial organizations, businesses, academic and research organizations to solve geospatial challenges via a collaborative process.

o The vendor MUST have an existing and operating open geospatial application programming interface (API) or an open geospatial application programming interface (API) currently in development that is freely available for anyone to use in perpetuity and has achieved widespread adoption by the global geospatial community.

o The vendor MUST have experience in the development and delivery of open international standards-based geospatial IT solutions.

4. Applicability of the trade agreement(s) to the procurement
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement(s)

o Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)

o World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP)

o Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

o Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

o Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA)

o Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

o Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement

o Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement

o Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement

o Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA)

o Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA)

5. Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business

Not applicable.

6. Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement(s)

Not applicable.

7. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier

The supplier mentioned in section 13 below is the only known supplier that meets the mandatory criteria set out in section 3 above.

Should Canada receive a statement of capabilities from a supplier that contains sufficient information to indicate that it meets the requirements set forth in this ACAN, a competitive process will be triggered with a technical and financial evaluation methodology of the bids proposed by the potential bidders.

8. Government Contracts Regulations Exception(s)
The following exception(s) to the Government Contracts Regulations is (are) invoked for this procurement under subsection subsection 6(d) - "only one person is capable of performing the work").

The identified supplier, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., is the only one able to meet all of the criteria identified in paragraph 3 above

9. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
The following exclusion(s) and/or limited tendering reasons are invoked under the:

o Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) – Article: 513.1(b) (iii);

o World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP) – Under the Revised GPA - Article XIII, 1 (b) (iii);

o Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) – Article(s) Article 19.12 (b) (iii)

o Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – Article(s): 15.10 , 2 (b) (iii) (s)

o Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) – Article(s) Kbis-09 (b),Article Kbis-09 (c)

o Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement – Article(s): 1409 (b) (iii);

o Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement – Article(s): 17.11 2 (b) (iii)

o Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement – Article 14.3, Under the Revised GPA - Article XIII, 1 (b) (iii);

o Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement – Article(s) 16.10 (b) (iii)

o Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA) – Article(s) 1409 (b) (iii)

o Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA) – Article(s Article 10.13 (b) (iii);

10. Ownership of Intellectual Property

Canada intends to retain ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed contract on the basis that the main purpose of the contract is to generate knowledge and information for public dissemination.

11. Period of the proposed contract

The proposed contract is for a period from date of award to January 31, 2023.

12. Cost estimate of the proposed contract
The estimated value of the contract is $239,426.00 USD (GST/HST not applicable).

13. Name and address of the pre-identified supplier
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

2300 Wilson Blvd. Suite 700 #1026

Arlington, VA

22201, USA

14. Suppliers' right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the goods, services or construction services described in the ACAN may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

15. Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities
The closing date and time for accepting statements of capabilities is March 30, 2022 at 2:00　p.m. EDT.

16. Inquiries and submission of statements of capabilities

Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:
Contracting Authority

Alexandre Rheault, Procurement Specialist
Telephone: 613-298-6447
E-mail: alexandre.rheault@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca