Employment and Social Development Canada Long-Term Cloud Services Requirement
Solicitation number ESDC#001
Publication date
Closing date and time 2023/03/31 14:00 EDT
Description
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) is increasingly focusing on cloud technology to improve the value of the services it offers to Canadians. Cloud services provide immediate solutions, scalability, business continuity and more predictable costs that enable ESDC to improve the programs and initiatives it is mandated to deliver.
This procurement has the objective of enabling sufficient cloud capacity to support all of ESDC’s cloud requirements for the next 10+ years, including a significant portion of cloud usage expected as a result of the transformation of the Benefits Delivery Modernization (BDM)Programme, which encompasses the transformation of three of Canada’s largest statutory benefits programs — the Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security and Employment Insurance.
Suppliers will be invited to pre-qualify in accordance with the terms and conditions of the ITQ (to follow shortly after this notice) in order to become “Qualified Respondents” for any later phases of the procurement process. Only Qualified Respondents will be permitted to bid on any subsequent solicitations issued as part of the procurement process.
The intent of the ITQ is to qualify cloud service providers with the ability to deliver secure commercial cloud services capable of meeting the requirements for large-scale citizen facing programs such as those delivered by ESDC, who can demonstrate availability, scalability, elasticity and disaster recovery capabilities required to support such programmes.
It is expected that the duration of the resulting contract(s) will be for an initial period of ten (10) years, with a number of additional option periods.
Contract duration
Refer to the description above for full details.
Trade agreements
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No trade agreements are applicable to this solicitation process
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Set-Aside Program for Aboriginal Business (SPAB)
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World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO GPA)
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Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement
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Quebec-New York Corridor Agreement
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Quebec-New Brunswick Procurement Agreement
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
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Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement
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Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA)
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Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement
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Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
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Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
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Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
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Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA)
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Canada-UK Trade Continuity Agreement (Canada-UK TCA)
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Atlantic Procurement Agreement
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Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA)
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Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
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Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA)
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Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (CLCA)
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Land Claim Set Asides (LCSA)
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Contact information
Contracting organization
- Organization
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Shared Services Canada
- Address
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90 Metcalfe StreetOttawa, Ontario, K0A 0C3Canada
- Contracting authority
- Enterprise IT Procurement - Cloud Services
- Email
- pvrprotectedcloudarfnuageprotege@ssc-spc.gc.ca
Buying organization(s)
- Organization
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Shared Services Canada
- Address
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90 Metcalfe StreetOttawa, Ontario, K0A 0C3Canada
Bidding details
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