SA - Printing Services

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: 

SA - Printing Services

The Government of Canada requires the provision of a full range of printing services (including Commercial printing, business card printing, reprographics/duplicating, specialized security printing services [i.e. booklets, paper licenses, certificates, serialized single part forms, etc.. with security features]) and related services on an "as and when requested basis".  The scope of the services covered by the Supply Arrangement is detailed in Annex A - Statement of Work.

Printing services refers to various printing methods including offset (sheet-fed and web), digital, business cards and other related printing services.

The Supply Arrangements will cover the following products:

Category 1 - Business cards
Category 2 - Loose sheet products
Category 3 - Bound publications 
Category 4 - Specialty single sheet products
Category 5 - Other types of related printed products, binding and reproduction of CDs (of printed publications)
Category 6 - Personalization of certificates and similar printed products (Variable Imaging)
Category 7 - Reproduction of publications and other print matter on electronic media from supplied master documents
Category 8 - Specialized Security Printing of Bound booklets produced with security features 
Category 9 - Specialized Security Printing of labels and single part flat forms produced with security features  

Supply Arrangements will be divided into five (5) streams:

Stream A:  Business Cards
Stream B:  Reprographics/Duplicating 
Stream C:  Low Quantity
Stream D:  High Quantity 
Stream E:  Specialized Security printing

Suppliers are required to indicate the regions and the streams for which they are submitting an arrangement.

The regions are: 

Region 1 - Atlantic Region (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador); 
Region 2 - Quebec Region (outside the National Capital Region [Gatineau/Ottawa]);
Region 3 - National Capital Region (NCR); 
Region 4 - Ontario Region (outside the National Capital Region [Gatineau/Ottawa]);
Region 5 - Western Region (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut);
Region 6 - Pacific Region (British Columbia and Yukon territory).

Suppliers are required to submit their arrangement in response to the Stream or Streams of their choice. Arrangements will be evaluated in accordance with the mandatory technical criteria and Stream specific technical criteria for the stream(s) in response to which suppliers have submitted their arrangement.

Evaluation Procedures

(a) Arrangements will be assessed in accordance with the entire requirement of the Request for Supply Arrangements including the technical evaluation criteria.

(b) An evaluation team composed of representatives of Canada will evaluate the arrangements.

Technical Evaluation

Each Stream (Stream A and/or Stream B and/or Stream C and/or Stream D and/or Stream E) will be evaluated separately.

Mandatory Technical Criteria 
Arrangements submitted by suppliers for each Stream must meet all the mandatory technical evaluation criteria. No further consideration will be given to arrangements not meeting all of the mandatory criteria.

Point Rated Technical Criteria 
Arrangements submitted by suppliers for each Stream must obtain the required overall minimum of 80% for the technical evaluation criteria, which are subject to point rating. Arrangements that do not obtain the minimum overall score will be considered non-responsive and will not be considered further.

Canada expects to authorize Supply Arrangements with all aboriginal and non-aboriginal suppliers that are deemed responsive to the RFSA.

All Supply Arrangements issued as result of this solicitation will be valid until such time as Canada no longer considers it to be advantageous to use it.

This RFSA will permit additional suppliers to submit arrangements and potentially become Supply Arrangement (SA) holders. New compliant suppliers will be issued SAs and their names will be added to the existing SA holder list. Suppliers having submitted an unsuccessful arrangement will be subject to a thirty (30) day waiting period before another arrangement will be evaluated by CPD.

These services will be provided to the identified users as follows;

- Any government department, agency or Crown Corporation listed in Schedules I, I.1, II, III, of the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. F-11.
- Communication Procurement Directorate (CPD) on behalf of any identified users. 
- Any other identified users added to the Supply Arrangement through amendment.

Individual contracts awarded under the Supply Arrangement will not exceed $2,000,000.00 (including applicable taxes). For requirements valued at more than $2,000,000.00 including applicable taxes, the Request for Proposal will be posted on the Government Electronic Tendering Service (GETS).

Security Requirements:

There is no mandatory security requirement associated with qualifying as a Supplier under the Supply Arrangement for Stream A, Stream B, Stream C and Stream D.
 
Although there is no security requirement required to be a supplier under the Supply Arrangement for Stream A, Stream B, Stream C and Stream D, suppliers may be required to meet security requirement on subsequent RFP Request. For any contract requiring a security level, only Suppliers holding a valid security clearance at the required level will be considered.

Stream E: Only Suppliers holding a valid security clearance at Level 2 and/or Level 3 will be considered for this Stream.

Trade Agreement

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)

Canadian Content: 

The goods and/or services covered by the Supply Arrangement will be solely limited to Canadian goods and/or services

Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business

The requirement covered by the bid solicitation of any resulting supply arrangement may be set aside for Aboriginal business under the federal government's Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business, as detailed in Annex 9.4 Requirements for the Set-aside Program for Aboriginal Business, of the Supply Manual.

Further to Article 800 of the CFTA, CFTA does not apply to the set aside portion of this procurement. CFTA does apply to the portion of the procurement not set aside under PSAB. 

Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements

This procurement is subject to the Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada.

The Request for Supply Arrangements (RFSA) is to establish supply arrangements for the delivery of the requirement detailed in the RFSA to the Identified Users across Canada, including areas subject to Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements (CLCAs).

epost Connect service

This RFSA allows suppliers to use the epost Connect service provided by Canada Post Corporation to transmit their arrangement electronically.  Suppliers must refer to Part 2 of the RFSA entitled Supplier Instructions and Part 3 of the RFSA entitled Arrangement Preparation Instructions for further information on using this method.
Delivery Date: 14/11/2020

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.