RMSO - Temporary Help Services in Alberta, Northwest Territories
and Nunvavut

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
Attachment: None
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: Yes
Nature of Requirements: 
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUPPLIERS

Government of Canada is moving its Government Electronic
Tendering Service from MERX to Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders on June
1, 2013

Starting June 1, 2013, federal government tenders (tender
notices and bid solicitation documents) will be published and
available free of charge on a Government of Canada Web site on
Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders.

The Government Electronic Tendering Service on
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for Government of Canada tenders that are subject to trade
agreements or subject to departmental policies that require
public advertising of tenders.

Get more details in the Frequently Asked Questions section of
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After June 1, 2013, all tenders and related documents and
amendments will be on Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders.  

On June 1, 2013, suppliers must go to Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders
to check for amendments to any tender opportunities that they
have been following on MERX prior to June 1.  

Bookmark Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders now to be ready for June 1!



Temporary Help Services in Alberta, Northwest Territories and
Nunavut

THIS PROCUREMENT INCLUDES A PORTION SET ASIDE FOR ABORIGINAL
BUSINESS UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SET-ASIDE PROGRAM FOR
ABORIGINAL BUSINESS
***New Offerors are advised that the Standard Instructions and
General Conditions in the Request for Standing Offer (RFSO)
document have changed to incorporate new Code of Conduct 
provisions. The new Code of Conduct provisions are included in
section 01 of the 2006 Standard Instructions, section 11 of the
2005 General Conditions and section 31 of the 2010B General
Conditions.  New Offerors must comply with the revised Standard
Instructions and General Conditions stated in the RFSO. ***

New Aboriginal and non-aboriginal offers will be accepted every
six (6) months

OPTION YEAR - 4th Closing - 2:00 p.m. (MST Edmonton) Monday, Nov
18, 2013 

To provide Temporary Help Services to federal government
departments and agencies in one or more of the listed geographic
AREAS* (excluding the National Capital Area) on an as and when
requested basis for call-ups generated from Regional Master
Standing Offers (RMSOs) from 1 June 2012 (or award whichever is
later) to the 31 May 2013 with an offer to extend for an
additional one year period from 1 June 2013 to 31 May 2014.  

Offers are accessible by users through an electronic catalogue,
refreshed every six (6) months, to enable new suppliers to
become Standing Offer Holders and existing Standing Offer
Holders to adjust their rates or contacts or qualify for Areas
for which they did not initially qualify.

Regional Master Standing Offers will be available for use by
clients to meet their Temporary Help Services requirements.

Temporary Help Services may be required from Standing Offer
Holders who, as course of business, provide the services of many
employees (perhaps simultaneously) to others on a temporary
basis when the incumbent is absent for a period of time; during
a temporary workload increase, or a position is in process of
being staffed. The Standing Offer Holder will be responsible to
prescreen, pre-train and pay benefits for their Temporary Help
employees.

The Temporary Help Services available through this Standing
Offer include services commonly available in each category:
Administrative Support, 
Professional and Administrative,
Technical and Operational, 
Telecommunications and Engineering

Services which are further broken down into classifications as
evidenced by referring to the spreadsheets and classification
descriptions viewable at
http://ont-sat-ths.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/docs/.

There is a security requirement associated with this
requirement. For additional information, consult Part 4,
Evaluation Procedures, Part 6 - Security and Insurance
Requirements and Part 7A -
Standing Offer. Offerors 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.

For those offerors who have usernames and passwords to update
their rates and contacts at
http://ont-sat-ths.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/, the system will be shut
down from midnight before the tender closing to the last day in
order to update changes.  If Current Offerors have not updated
the system prior to it being shut down, a spreadsheet may be
submitted to jasmine.scott@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca, as long as it is
received before solicitation closing above.

Offerors may provide feedback on their implemented environmental
programs at any time to ont.ths-sat@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca.

During the period of the Standing Offer, there may be changes
which will be communicated as a Solicitation Amendment; as an
e-mail to listed Offerors' contacts; and/or as a posting on the
site: http://ont-sat-ths.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/sat-ths/.

An e-mail award will be sent to confirm adoption of the terms.

NEW OFFERORS who haven't yet been qualified and who wish to
provide Temporary Help Services in any of the identified AREAS*
are to submit a completed technical proposal as indicated in the
bid document up to the closing date.

*The offers are to be submitted relative to any of the following
urban AREAS:


AB Edmonton
NU Nunavut
NT Yellowknife


For each AREA* quoted, only one offer per legal entity will be
accepted and offers from separate divisions of the same firm
will not be accepted. In addition to other mandatory criteria
identified in the solicitation, the Offeror must:

a.    Occupy a fully-operational permanent commercial office
open during normal business hours (7-1/2 hours per day) with a
minimum staff of two (2) full time employees dedicated to the
supply of Temporary Help Services for the AREA* and respond to
client calls within four (4) hours.

b.    Have been in business for at least one (1) year and at
least three (3) months' experience in the provision of Temporary
Help Services in the quoted AREA*, for all quoted
classifications.

c.    Initially submit their completed Pricing/Basis of Payment
in the form identified, for each quoted AREA*. (the
pricing/basis of payment Excel spreadsheets are downloadable
from http://ont-sat-ths.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/docs/ ) and completed
certifications contained within the solicitation. ONLY Pricing
files may be e-mailed to the Standing Offer Authority.
A fax or e-mail confirmation will be sent to acknowledge receipt
of rates received electronically.

d.    Provide three (3) positive letters of reference from major
clients of your temporary help services in the AREA*.

e.    Provide details of your testing and quality control
processes.

The methodology is summarized below.

1.    New Temporary Help Offerors submitting proposals meeting
the mandatory criteria will be included in the financial
evaluation every six (6) months

2.    Successful Offerors are given User Names and Passwords to
access the internet site
    http://ont-sat-ths.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/sat-ths/  to change
their company information or propose new rates for possible
adoption into the following six month catalogue. They also have
the ability to view their competitors' rates and the Client
Catalogue procedures.

3.    Rates posted on the site and new offeror spreadsheets are
uploaded, according to the schedule identified in Annex "F" of
the RFSO, evaluated to eliminate high rates (as detailed in the
solicitation document) and the information populates the revised
six month catalogue.

4.    Federal Government Clients (without internet access) are
able to view the catalogue on the Federal Government Intranet at
http://clientsontario.pwgsc.gc.ca/sat-ths/

5.    Clients have the ability to send e-mail orders directly to
the Offerors.

Feedback and Questions are welcomed and should be sent by e-mail
to Jasmine Scott at the following e-mail address:
jasmine.scott@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca.

NOTE:  If interested, other Request for Standing Offers for
additional areas are addressed with:

Solicitation No. 66XSB-111000/A for
	BC Vancouver, Fraser Valley
	BC Vancouver Island
	BC Northern British Columbia
	YT Yukon 

Solicitation No.  EW478-120771/A for:
	AB Calgary
	AB Drumheller
	AB Lethbridge
	AB Medicine Hat
	AB Red Deer/Bowden/Lacombe

Solicitation No.  EV394-120786/A for:
	SK Prince Albert
	SK Regina
	SK Saskatoon

Solicitation No. ET959-120660/B for
	MB Winnipeg/Stony Mountain/Selkirk
	MB Brandon/ Shilo

Solicitation No. E6TOR-11RM01/A for
	ON Barrie/ Borden/ Collingwood/ Owen Sound/ Parry Sound
	ON Brockville/ Prescott
	ON Burlington/ Hamilton/ Milton/ Jerseyville/ Dundas/ Stoney
Creek/ Grimsby/ Chatham/ Windsor
	ON Cornwall
	ON Guelph/ Kitchener
	ON Kingston
	ON London
	ON Niagara Falls/ St.Catharines/ Welland
	ON North Bay/ Sudbury
	ON Pembroke
	ON Peterborough
	ON Sarnia
	ON Sault Ste. Marie
	ON Thunder Bay
	ON Timmins
	ON Toronto
	ON Trenton/ Belleville

Solicitation No. EA372-110002/A for:
	NL Newfoundland and Labrador
	NS Halifax Truro Kentville Bridgewater Yarmouth Amherst & Cape
Breton

Solicitation No. E6095-120002/A for:
	NB New Brunswick
	PE Prince Edward Island






Jasmine Scott
Telephone No. (780) 497-3578 
jasmine.scott@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca
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.