Audio Visual Production Services

Trade Agreement: CETA / 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: 

VIDEO PRODUCTION SERVICES FOR THE CANADA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICES

0X001-180989/A 
Contracting Authority: St-Clair Denise
Telephone No. - (613) 993-7846 
Fax No. - (613) 991-5870
E-mail: TPSGC.padgamiace-appbmpace.PWGSC@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca 

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DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT
The Canada School of Public Service’s primary responsibility is to provide a broad range of learning opportunities and to establish a culture of learning to meet the common learning and development needs of approximately 250,000 public service employees across Canada. Video production is a key priority of the Canada School of Public Service, and video production services are required to help meet the growing demand for learning products in video format for inclusion in online courses, classroom courses, or to be posted on the School’s learning platform.

The Canada School of Public Service is seeking the services of a Contractor to provide management, administrative and technical services related to learning video pre-production, production and post-production for the Learning Programs Branch (LPB) primarily. 

These services will be required for a period of 2 years, with the irrevocable option of allowing the School to extend the term of the Contract for up to 2 additional 2-year periods under the same terms and conditions.

The target audiences for these varied videos are intended for all Canadian Public Servants across Canada. Some of the videos will have a more specific targeted audience in mind depending on their specialty and area of work, but most will be generic for all Public Servants.

The Contractor must produce a minimum of approximately 60 learning videos in Canadian English and Canadian French. The videos are to be posted on the Canada School’s GCcampus learning platform, an internal platform for Canadian Government employees only. Types of videos could be some of the following: interactive presentations, motion graphics, talking-head, and/or animation and compliance work for transcription, sub-titles and closed captioning.

All videos must be produced in Canadian English and French (or bilingual) and must meet WCAG 2.0 AA Accessibility standards (with closed captions, transcripts and visual descriptions). The School also requires the Contractor to provide intelligent verbatim transcripts of audio and video productions. Videos may be stand-alone products, or embedded in a packaged learning products.


PERIOD OF THE CONTRACT
The period of the Contract is from April 01, 2019 to March 31, 2021 inclusive.


OPTION TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT
The Contractor grants to Canada the irrevocable option to extend the term of the Contract by up to two (2) additional two (2) year period(s) under the same conditions. 

Option Period 1:  April 01, 2021 to March 31, 2023
Option Period 2:  April 01, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This solicitation includes mandatory and point rated technical criteria. Refer to Part 4 and Annex “C” of the Request for Proposal.


FINANCIAL EVALUATION
The price of the bid will be evaluated in Canadian dollars, Applicable Taxes excluded, FOB destination, Canadian customs duties and excise taxes included.


BASIS OF SELECTION - HIGHEST COMBINED RATING TECHNICAL MERIT AND PRICE
1.  To be declared responsive, a bid must: 
a.  comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation;
b.  meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and
c.  obtain the required minimum of 400 points overall for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating. The rating is performed on a scale of 600 points. 

2.  Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. 

3.  The selection will be based on the highest responsive combined rating of technical merit and price. The ratio will be 70% for the technical merit and 30% for the price. 

4.  To establish the technical merit score, the overall technical score for each responsive bid will be determined as follows: total number of points obtained / maximum number of points available multiplied by the ratio of 70%.
 
5.  To establish the pricing score, each responsive bid will be prorated against the lowest evaluated price and the ratio of 30%. The Estimated Blended Hourly Rate (EBHR) will be multiplied by 50 hours and will be used as the evaluated price for the evaluation weighting combined rating of technical merit and price.  
6.  For each responsive bid, the technical merit score and the pricing score will be added to determine its combined rating. 

7.  Neither the responsive bid obtaining the highest technical score nor the one with the lowest blended hourly rate will necessarily be accepted. The responsive bid with the highest combined rating of technical merit and price will be recommended for award of a contract. 


SECURITY REQUIREMENT
There are no security requirements associated with this requirement.


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

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.