Little Black Book of Scams

Solicitation number U3010-198151/A

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Closing date and time 2019/07/11 14:00 EDT

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    Description
    Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
    Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services
    Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall  Proposal
    Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: Yes
    Nature of Requirements: 
    
    Little Black Book of Scams
    
    U3010-198151/A
    Gagné, Kathleen
    
    
    THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF SCAMS
    
    NATURE OF REQUIREMENT
    
    The Competition Bureau of Canada has a requirement for the printing, production to final format, and warehousing of 150,000 of The Little Black Book of Scams.
    
    An additional production run of 150,000 may also be required on an "if and when" required basis at any time after the initial production run is completed.  This additional production run (optional quantity) is at the sole discretion of the Project Authority and will be authorized by the PWGSC Contracting Authority as an amendment to the Contract.
     
    After the initial delivery, the booklets must be delivered on skids of 90 boxes (with 100 books per box) per skid to the Project Authority in the National Capital Region (Gatineau) on an "as and when" required basis.
    
    The contract will be from the date of contract award until November 30, 2020 inclusive.
    
    The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.
    
    This bid solicitation allows bidders to use the epost Connect service provided by Canada Post Corporation for bid submission.  Bidders must refer to Part 2 of the bid solicitation entitled Instructions to bidders for further information.
    
    M.1   CORPORATE EXPERIENCE 
    
    M.1.a The Bidder must demonstrate that it has been contractually bound to an external client (outside of the Bidder's own company) to provide printing and production to final format of a minimum quantity of 75,000 copies of a perfect bound publication and delivery to the destination address or addresses specified by the Client. 
    
    M.1.b The printing requirements for the publication must have included four (4) colour process printing on the cover and on some or all of the text pages. 
    
    M.1.c The publication must have included a minimum of 72 text pages + covers (72 page format - 36 double sided text pages) per book. 
    
    M.1.d The printing and production of the minimum quantity of 75,000 copies must have been completed after January 01, 2015.
    
    M.1.1 The Bidder must provide the following information for each contract:
    
    i. the quantity of publications produced; 
    
    ii. a description of the perfect bound publication indicating the number of pages, and the binding requirements;
    
    iii. a description of the printing requirements for the covers and the text pages, indicating the ink colour (i.e. CMYK);
    
    iv. the completion date of the Contract (month/year);
    
    v. the Client information for the Contract
    
    **During the evaluation no corporate experience gained through internal* clients will be accepted or reviewed.
    
    PROPOSALS NOT MEETING ALL OF THE MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED NON RESPONSIVE AND GIVEN NO FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
    
    
    FINANCIAL EVALUATION
    
    The prices requested in the Annex "B" Basis of Payment of this Request for Proposal will be multiplied by the corresponding quantities for evaluation and then added to determine the "Total Evaluated Price" as specified in the Annex "B" Basis of Payment.
    
    BASIS OF SELECTION
    
    A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract.
    Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
    
    The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
    
    Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.

    Contract duration

    Refer to the description above for full details.

    Trade agreements

    • Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)

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    Contact information

    Contracting organization

    Organization
    Public Works and Government Services Canada
    Address
    11 Laurier St, Phase III, Place du Portage
    Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0S5
    Canada
    Contracting authority
    Gagné, Kathleen
    Phone
    (613) 990-9189 ( )
    Email
    kathleen.gagne@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
    Address
    360 Albert St./ 360, rue Albert
    12th Floor / 12ième étage
    Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0S5

    Buying organization(s)

    Organization
    Industry Canada
    Bidding details

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    Tender documents
    Document title Amendment no. Language Unique downloads Date added
    002
    English
    4
    003
    English
    7
    002
    French
    1
    003
    French
    1
    001
    English
    6
    001
    French
    2
    000
    English
    56
    000
    French
    11

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    Summary information

    Notice type
    Request for Proposal
    Language(s)
    English, French
    Region(s) of delivery
    National Capital Region (NCR)
    Procurement method
    Competitive – Selective Tendering
    Selection criteria
    Highest Combined Rating of Technical Merit and Price
    Commodity - GSIN
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