Audio Visual Production 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: No
Nature of Requirements: 

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: 
Audio Visual Production Services

EN578-190376/B

Genevieve Dubaere, Supply Specialist or delegate 
Telephone: 613-993-7846
Email: genevieve.dubaere@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca


NATURE OF REQUIREMENT:

The Government of Canada requires the provision of a full range
of film, video and audio-visual production services.

These services will be provided to the Communication Procurement
Directorate (CPD) of Public Works and Government Services Canada
(PWGSC) on behalf of Government of Canada departments and
agencies listed under Schedules I, I.I, II and III of the
Financial Administration Act.  As a result of this competitive
process, PWGSC will authorize Supply Arrangements.  This
solicitation will also be used to establish a separate list of
qualified Aboriginal Set-Aside Suppliers under the Set-Aside
Program for Aboriginal Business (SPAB). 

The period for awarding contracts under the Supply Arrangement
is from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021.

Suppliers must provide a list of names , or other related
information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard
Instructions 2008.

For services requirements, Suppliers in receipt of a pension or
a lump sum payment must provide the required information.

The requirement covered by the bid solicitation of any resulting
supply arrangement may be subject to a preference for Canadian
goods and/or services or may be limited to Canadian goods and/or
services.


EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS:

To be declared responsive, a supplier must:

a)  comply with all the requirements of the Request for Supply Arrangement (RFSA); and 
b)  meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and
c)  obtain the required minimum of 70 percent of the available points for each rated criteria and an overall passing mark of 185 points on a scale of 265 points.

Suppliers not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) above will be declared non-responsive.

All fully responsive suppliers and all fully responsive Aboriginal suppliers will be listed on the general list of Supply Arrangement Holders. An additional list will be created for Aboriginal suppliers only to be utilized when the contract is to be under the Set-Aside Program for Aboriginal Business.

There is no limit to the number of Supply Arrangements which may be put in place.

MANDATORY EVALUATION CRITERIA:

M.1  IDENTIFICATION OF THE FIRM
The Supplier MUST identify the owners and management of the firm and the legal incorporated name as well as the organizational structure in the submission of their arrangement.

M.2      INTERNET SITE

Suppliers MUST have an Internet site that is accessible by Client Departments and Agencies. The purpose of this Internet site is to provide information on the services available from the supplier and the Supplier’s qualifications to provide those services. Therefore, in order to meet this mandatory requirement, the Supplier MUST provide the active, published Internet address accessible from a Government of Canada computer.

M.3  EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRM (The video production samples will be rated under R.1) 

The Supplier MUST demonstrate its experience by submitting four (4) different video production samples produced and publicly published within the last five (5) years from the closing date of this RFSA. In order to meet this mandatory, the Supplier must provide the active, published site addresses where the videos are publicly published and available for viewing in their entirety. 

The total running time of all of the samples combined MUST not exceed twenty (20) minutes in length. Should the running time of the submitted samples exceed twenty (20) minutes in length, only the first twenty (20) minutes will be evaluated.

The productions MUST have been completed entirely by the Supplier under a contract for a client in the public sector or in private industry.

1. The minimum dollar value of at least one (1) of the sample projects must be $25,000.00. For the purposes of the evaluation of mandatory criterion M.3,”sample projects” is defined as a contract for the provision of video production services.

2. One (1) of the video production samples MUST demonstrate the Supplier’s ability to produce a video based audio-visual production.

3. One (1) of the video production samples MUST demonstrate the Supplier’s ability to produce an audio-visual production that was tailored and posted to the Internet or adapted for social media use.

4. At least one (1) of the video production samples MUST demonstrate the Supplier’s ability to work in both official languages (English and French). To demonstrate the Supplier’s ability to
work in both official languages (English and French) the submitted sample MUST be either of the following:

I. a production where both the English and French are equally and substantively represented in the same production; or

II. a unilingual production (in its original language) that demonstrates the official language not demonstrated in the other submitted samples.

Productions that have voice-overs, are fully narrated, are purely text based, or are subtitled/closed captioned are not acceptable to demonstrate the Supplier’s ability to work in both official languages.


PLEASE GO TO THE BUYANDSELL WEBSITE (WWW.BUYANDSELL.GC.CA) TO
DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE COMPLETE RFSA.

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: Above-mentioned

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

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.