INTERACTIVE MAPPING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL KIT

Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada-Peru FTA/Canada-Colombia FTA
Tendering Procedures: 
Attachment: None
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address: 
DBx GEOMATICS INC.
37 boulevard Saint-Joseph
2ème étage
Gatineau Quebec
Canada
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Nature of Requirements: 
ACAN - INTERACTIVE MAPPING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL KIT 

21120-130396/A
Baker, Roxane
Telephone No. - (819) 956-1105 
Fax No. - (819) 953-3703

REQUIREMENT:

Correctional Service Canada has a requirement for the provision
of goods as specified under "Background" below. The purpose of
this Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) is to signal the
government's intention to award a contract for these goods to
DBx GEOMATICS Inc., Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Before awarding a
contract, however, the government would like to provide other
suppliers with the opportunity to demonstrate that they are
capable of satisfying the requirements set out in this Notice,
by submitting a statement of capabilities during the 15 calendar
day posting period.

If other potential suppliers submit a statement of capabilities
during the 15 calendar day posting period that meet the
requirements set out in the ACAN, the government will proceed to
a full tendering process on either the government's electronic
tendering service or through traditional means, in order to
award the contract.

If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a
statement of capabilities meeting the requirements set out in
the ACAN, a contract will be awarded to the pre-selected
supplier.
BACKGROUND:
Correctional Service Canada requires a Commercial Interactive
Mapping Software Development Tool Kit with the ability to create
custom dashboard mapping applications with dockable
complementary graphs, charts, data tables and windows.
Correctional Service Canada's server environment is attached as
Annex B.

Public Works and Government Services Canada , on behalf of its
Client, Correctional Service Canada, intends to enter into a
sole source contract with DBx GEOMATICS Inc., Gatineau, Quebec,
for the purpose of procurement of the following software
licenses including Software Maintenance and Support, Training
and Professional Services:
Initial Requirement

A. Proprietary Software Products as follows:

CartoVista Viewer 3.7 - Deployment License for a single web
server - Quantity 1
CartoVista Viewer 3.7 - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support
- Quantity 1
CartoVista Publisher 3.8 - Desktop application - Quantity: 2
CartoVista Publisher 3.8 - Annual Maintenance and Technical
Support - Quantity 2
CartoVista North America Tiles for CartoVista 3.8 - Deployment
License for a single web server -          Quantity 1
CartoVista North America Tiles for CartoVista 3.8 - Annual
Maintenance and Technical Support -          Quantity 1
CartoVista Software Development Kit (SDK) - Quantity 1
CartoVista Software Development Kit (SDK) - Annual Maintenance
and Technical Support - 		Quantity 1
CartoVista Server Component 1.0 - License for a single web
server - Quantity 1
CartoVista Server Component 1.0 - Annual Maintenance and
Technical Support - Quantity 1
CartoVista Publisher 3.7 - Tile Generation Module (per user
license) - Quantity 1
CartoVista Publisher 3.7 - Tile Generation Module - Annual
Maintenance and Technical Support - 	Quantity 1


B. Training and Professional Services as follows:

Training on the CartoVista Publisher - 2 days course - 2
participants
Training on the CartoVista Software Development Kit (SDK) - 1
day course - 2 participants
Preparation of a design and specification document for the
development of the pilot project - 3 days
Development of the pilot project and installation on DBx
GEOMATICS server - 12 days

The contract will also include options to extend maintenance and
support services, as follows:

Annual software maintenance and support services over three (3)
one (1) year options. 
MINIMUM ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement
of capabilities that it meets all of the mandatory requirements
in Annex A 

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PRE-SELECTED SUPPLIER

The reasons for single tendering are described in Annex A.

Section 6 of the Government Contract Regulations is being
invoked in this procurement as only one person or firm is
capable of performing the contract.  

Article 506.12(b) of AIT is applicable on the basis when there
is an absence of competition for technical reasons and the goods
or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no
alternative or substitute exists.

Article 1016.2(b) of NAFTA are applicable on the basis of
limited tendering due to reasons where, for works of art, or for
reasons connected with the protection of patents, copyrights or
other exclusive rights, or proprietary information or where
there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, the
goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier
and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists.

PERIOD OF CONTRACT

The proposed contract is for the purchase 1 Interactive Mapping
Software Development Tool Kit license including associated
maintenance and support services for a period of one (1) year,
Training and Professional Services from date of Contract Award. 
The proposed contract includes irrevocable options on the part
of Canada to extend the Maintenance and Support period of any
resulting contract by up to three (3) additional one (1) year.

The software licenses will be delivered within 10 days of any
resulting contract.

CLOSING DATE AND TIME FOR WRITTEN SUPPLIER RESPONSES CHALLENGING
THIS REQUIREMENT IS 2:00 p.m. EST, November 29, 2012.

You are hereby notified that the Government intends to solicit a
bid and negotiate with one firm only as identified above. 

If you wish to submit a written response showing that you are
capable of meeting this requirement, it must be done not later
than the specified closing date and time. The file number,
contracting officer's name, and the closing date of the ACAN
must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters or,
in the case of a facsimile transmission, on the covering page.
As it is intended to proceed in a timely manner, responses
received after the closing date will not be considered.  

Responses received on or before the closing date will be
considered solely for the purpose of deciding whether or not to
conduct a competitive procurement. Information provided will be
used by the Crown for technical evaluation purposes only and is
not to be construed as a competitive solicitation. Your written
response must provide sufficient evidence (e.g. specifications,
technical data, drawings, or any other proof) that clearly
demonstrates that your product or service is capable of
fulfilling this requirement.  

Suppliers that have submitted a response will be notified in
writing of PWGSC's decision to continue with the non-competitive
procurement or to compete the requirement.

ANNEX A

The reasons for sole source justification for the required
Commercial Interactive Mapping Software Development Tool Kit are
detailed below. Correctional Service Canada (CSC) requires the
software to be compliant with the following functionalities:  

Development:

A map publisher that is used to build maps from existing GIS
data;
A high-performance tiling system mixing raster tiling with
vector (polygon, points) overlays to create highly interactive
mapping applications;
Ability to integrate vector and attribute data linked to dynamic
data;
Advanced thematic and point mapping capabilities;
The ability to develop custom user interfaces;
Ability to easily update a vector attribute data without having
to re-publish the custom applications;
Ability to customize a comprehensive set of map features
(advanced label settings, visibility ranges, etc.).

End User:

Simple map navigation and effective data selection tools;
Display of interactive dashboard views (charts, info box, etc.);
Dynamic thematic customization;
Provide end users with the capability to create ad-hoc queries
changing the visual display of graphical and statistical
information in real-time;
A vector-based map that features interactive content that
responds to mouse events to help understand the data and the
analysis being displayed;
Dockable complementary graphs, charts, data tables and windows;
Seamless map navigation.

Technical:

Ability to view maps using existing industry standard Adobe
Flash;
Mapping application must be deployed on CSC's internal server;
Bilingual (English/French) publisher and viewer interface;
A lightweight mapping component; low server resources
consumption;
Fast mapping engine;
A ready to use tile set with coast to coast coverage for all of
Canada;
The publisher must NOT require conversion of data which allows
CSC to continue maintaining its existing geographical datasets
and spatial databases in their current formats (no loss of data,
less duplication).  Compatible with MapInfo Professional GIS
data files.

Services:

The requirement is to be able to develop an interactive mapping
application;
Upon entering a point-of-incident* (i.e. street address), the
application will return results identifying the parole offices
and police agencies requiring notification based on the
geographical area.

ANNEX B


CSC's server environment consists of a wide array of Intel
servers running Windows and Itanium servers running HP-UX.

Disk drives for CSC's servers are made available as Direct
Attached SCSI or SAN.

1.1	Desktop Environment

a)	Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) 4.01 Internet/Intranet
browser-base (standard defined by 		the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) publishing language of the World Wide Web)
b)	Microsoft Windows XP SP3
c)	Microsoft Office 2007
d)	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
e)	Java 6
f)	Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5, 4.0

Note: Future versions of the Desktop environment will be moving
to Windows 7 and IE9.

1.2	Database Environments

a)	Oracle RDBMS, 11g
b)	Microsoft SQL Server v.2008

1.3	Platform Environments

a)	HP-UX11iv3
b)	Windows Server 2008 R2
c)	VMWare 4.1 ESXi update 1
d)	Apache Web Server
e)	Apache Tomcat
f)	Citrix
g)	IBM Websphere
h)	Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS)
i)	Oracle Application Server
j)	Oracle Weblogic

1.4	Backup Environment

a)	Symantec NetBackup v.7.0.1

1.5	Application Server Platforms

       	Internet Business Intelligence (BI) Tools

a)	Crystal Reports XI
b)	Crystal Enterprise/Reports 10
c)	Oracle XML Publisher
d)	Oracle OLAP 10.2
e)	Oracle Discoverer 10.1.2
f)	Oracle OAS 10.1.3.4
g)	Oracle WebCache 
h)	Oracle Report Server 10.1.2
i)	Oracle AS Metadata Repository

1.6	Directory Services

a)	Microsoft AD is used for user authentication and repository
of user identity
b)	Microsoft DNS is used for resolving FQDN
c)	Microsoft WINS is used to resolve NetBIOS names, however CSC
now requires fully-qualified 		names in all new
applications\tools. DNS will be used to resolve these names.
d)	DHCP is used to configure and assign valid IP addresses and
other options on all devices 		connected to the network
e)	Microsoft GPO is used to provide an infrastructure for
centralized configuration management
f)	X500 protocol will continue to be the basis of
government-wide address lists
g)	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used by Web
servers for user management and 		is also used by Business
Intelligence (BI) tools

1.7	Network

         	Communication Services
·	TCP on IPv4 is the layer 4 and 3 protocols used for all
network communications among sites and 		datacenter servers in
CSC. At this point in time, IPv6 is not in use.
          	
	Local Area Network (LAN)
·	100baseT is the CSC standard and the full infrastructure is
currently in place to support it, 		although Gigabit Ethernet
(1000baseT) is used for most server connections in the Data
Centre 		today.

	Wide Area Network (WAN)
·	Frame Relay and ATM - nominal 1.5 Mbps among sites and
datacenters
·	Non Internet based DSL service connecting small offices at
nominal 1.0 Mbps among sites and   		datacenters 
·	IP based LAN extensions

	Secure Remote Access
·	PSTN dial to national datacenters using Government of Canada
PKI
·	Internet-based DSL to national datacenters using Government of
Canada PKI

	Riverbed WAN Accelerators
	Application Delivery Controllers (Radware Load Balancers)

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate
with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any
questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting
officer identified above.

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and
agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen (15)
calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it
intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a
pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or
before the closing date, a Statement of Capabilities that meets
the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contracting authority
may then proceed with the award.  However, should a Statement of
Capabilities be found to meet the requirements set out in the
ACAN, then the contracting authority will proceed to a full
tendering process.

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a
statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person
identified in this Notice on or before the closing date of this
Notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate
how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

The PWGSC file number, the contracting officer's name and the
closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the
envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile
transmission, on the covering page.

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

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.