BLANK LICENSE & REGISTRATION CARDS - RCMP

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
BLANK LICENSE & REGISTRATION CARDS - RCMP 

M7594-142495/A
Werk(cw), Janet
Telephone No. - (613) 998-3968 
Janet.werk@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca


The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has a requirement for
the printing, production to final format, storage and shipping
of separate Canada Firearms Privilege card stock as specified in
the Annex A Statement of Work.

The Contractor must deliver the specified quantities of Firearms
Licence Cards twice annually as per the delivery schedule. If
required by the RCMP, the Contractor must print, produce to
final format and deliver the specified quantities of optional
Firearm Registration Cards twice annually as per the delivery
schedule.

The Contract is in effect for a period a period of one (1) from
award of contract inclusively.

There is a security requirement associated with this
requirement. 

For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security
Requirement, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses. Bidders
should consult the "Security Requirements for PWGSC Bid
Solicitations - Instructions for Bidders"
	(http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/lc-pl/lc-pl-eng.html#a31)
document on the Departmental Standard Procurement Documents Web
site.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) will perform an in
depth security verification check and
security interview on the Contractor personnel requiring
clearance. Such verification will be performed by a Security
Analyst with the RCMP, Personnel Security Unit (PSU),
independent of PWGSC/CISD. 
For this requirement the Supplier's individuals that requires
the RCMP personal clearance are the "holder of the plates" and
his/her back-up.
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on
Internal Trade (AIT).

The requirement is conditionally limited to Canadian goods
and/or services.

M.1   	To demonstrate that the Bidder has experience producing
the type of cards described in the Annex A Statement of Work,
the Bidder must provide a detailed description of two (2)
previous contracts for one (1) or more clients, for which the
Bidder produced large quantities (more than 50,000 of each card)
of PVC cards to be used for personalization after lamination,
that meet the specifications of the Annex A Statement of work
for size, sandwich PVC stock and lamination. 
At least one (1) of the described Contracts must have required
security printing features on the cards produced and at least
one (1) of the Contracts must have required a magnetic strip on
the cards produced.
The description must include the following for each contract
description:
a.	the client information;
b.	the quantity of cards produced and delivered; 
c.	a description of the cards produced under the contract
including:
-	the card material;
-	the size of the card;
-	the number of ink colours.
-	the security printing features of the card;
-	the magnetic strip requirements;
-	the lamination requirements.
For evaluation purposes, the firm all inclusive prices submitted
in the Annex B, Basis of Payment for the period of the contract
and all of the option years will be multiplied by the quantity
for evaluation specified and then added, as specified in the
Annex B Basis of Payment spreadsheet being distributed through
GETS (BuyandSell.gc.ca), to determine the Aggregate Price.


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.