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Security Printing - Visas

Solicitation number B8297-200035/B

Publication date

Closing date and time 2020/01/03 14:00 EST

Last amendment date


    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: No
    Nature of Requirements: 
    
    Security Printing 1346 and 1442
    
    B8297-200035/B
    Leblanc, Marc-André
    Telephone No. - (873) 354-5948
    
    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: No
    Nature of Requirements: 
    Printing, Warehousing, Order Fulfillment and Distribution of CIC
    Secure Documents
    
    THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A SECURITY REQUIREMENT
    
    TITLE:  Printing, Warehousing, Order Fulfillment and
    Distribution of CIC Secure Documents
    
    The contract period will be for a period of five (5) years plus
    three (3) additional periods of one (one) year.
    
    The Canadian Free Trade Agreement applies to this procurement.
    
    This requirement is limited to products and / or Canadian
    services.
    
    1.   SECURITY REQUIREMENT
    
    There is a security requirement associated with this
    requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 -
    Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 -
    Resulting Contract Clauses. For more information on personnel
    and organization security screening or security clauses, bidders
    should refer to the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate
    (CISD), Industrial and Security Program of Public Works and
    Government Services Canada 
    (http://ssi-iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/index-eng.html) website.
    
    Bidders must provide a list of names, or other related
    information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard
    Instructions 2003 .
    
    2.     SUMMARY
    
    Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is requiring  a
    contractor to provide Offset printing incorporating security
    printing techniques including rainbow printing, optically
    variable inks, chemically variable inks, Intaglio printing, hot
    foil stamping, serial numbering and others. warehousing,
    distribution, inventory control, order processing, invoicing,
    order fulfillment, tracking, reporting, and destruction, and
    delivery services via armoured vehicle of two key controlled
    forms.  The two key controlled forms involved in this contract
    are the IMM 1346 B and the IMM 1442 B. These forms are used for
    the immigration product lines.
    
    3.      MANDATORY TECHNICAL CRITERIA 
    
     An offer must meet all the mandatory requirements. Offers not
    meeting all of the mandatory
     requirements will be given no further consideration and will be
    declared non-responsive. Offers
     meeting all of the mandatory requirements will go on to be
    evaluated for the Point-Rated
     Requirements.
    
    M.1 CORPORATE CAPABILITY 
    To demonstrate that the Bidder has the corporate capacity to
    manufacture paper-based security documents, the Bidder must
    provide a description of three (3) projects undertaken, or
    active, during the five (5) years preceding the date of posting
    this RFP that collectively included the provision of all of the
    following services and production techniques: 
    
    M.1.1 Security Consultation and Design services;
    M.1.2 Managing the on-going supply of security components,
    including paper, required for completing the document; 
    M.1.3 Offset printing incorporating security printing techniques
    including rainbow printing, chemically variable inks; 
    M.1.4  Intaglio printing;
    M.1.5  Hot foil stamping of an Optically Variable Device (OVD);
    M.1.6 Optically variable inks,
    M.1.7  Inventory and Supply Chain management supporting on-going
    production;
    
    M.2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    
    The Bidder must provide a proposed Contractor/Client Project
    Organization Chart for Contract implementation and on-going
    production management.
    
    The Contractor Project Organization Chart must:
    1) Identify an individual, or individuals, who will act as the
    Contractor Project Manager and principal point of contact for
    the contract period;
    2) Identify the positions and roles of the Contractor's
    personnel who will interact with CIC to refine the corporate
    inventory management system interface to meet the CIC
    requirements, redesign or revise forms, manage press checks;
    3) Identify the Contractor personnel, their positions in the
    organization and their accountability and reporting
    relationships for a problem escalation process.
    
    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.
    
    
    
    
    Delivery Date: 06/11/2019
    
    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
    Leblanc, Marc-André
    Phone
    (873) 354-5948 ( )
    Email
    TPSGC.padgamiace-appbmpace.PWGSC@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
    Address
    360 Albert St./ 360, rue Albert
    12th Floor / 12ième étage
    Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0S5

    Buying organization(s)

    Organization
    Citizenship and Immigration Canada
    Bidding details

    Full details regarding this tender opportunity are available in the documents below. Click on the document name to download the file. Contact the contracting officer if you have any questions regarding these documents.

    Tender documents
    Document title Amendment no. Language Unique downloads Date added
    002
    French
    3
    002
    English
    10
    001
    French
    0
    001
    English
    8
    000
    French
    7
    000
    English
    39

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    Summary information

    Notice type
    Request for Proposal
    Language(s)
    English, French
    Region(s) of delivery
    Alberta
    ,
    British Columbia
    ,
    Manitoba
    ,
    New Brunswick
    ,
    Newfoundland and Labrador
    ,
    Nova Scotia
    ,
    Northwest Territories
    ,
    Nunavut Territory
    ,
    Ontario (except NCR)
    ,
    Prince Edward Island
    ,
    Quebec (except NCR)
    ,
    Saskatchewan
    ,
    Yukon
    ,
    National Capital Region (NCR)
    Procurement method
    Competitive – Selective Tendering
    Selection criteria
    Highest Combined Rating of Technical Merit and Price

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