Security Printing - Visas

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.