SBIPS (Solutions Based Informatics Professionnal Services)

Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with
Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall  Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 

REQUEST FOR SUPPLY ARRANGEMENTS (RFSA)
 THREE REFRESHES NOTICE FOR SOLUTION-BASED INFORMATICS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (SBIPS)

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUPPLIERS:

The Government Electronic Tendering Service on
Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders is the sole authoritative source for
Government of Canada tenders that are subject to trade
agreements or subject to departmental policies that require
public advertising of tenders.

Suppliers interested in submitting a response to this Request
for Supply Arrangement (RFSA) solicitation can access the RFSA
documentation directly from this PWGSC Notice of Proposed
Procurement (NPP) publication at: 
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tenders.

Qualified suppliers who received a Supply Arrangement (SA) under
RFSA EN537-05IT01/H are not obligated to respond to this RFSA.

Suppliers are reminded of the importance of reading the
Solutions-Based Informatics Professional Services (SBIPS)
solicitation document carefully before submitting a response to
the RFSA.


SECURITY REQUIREMENT:

Before issuance of a SA the Supplier must hold a valid
Designated Organization Security (DOS) clearance granted by
PWGSC CISD.


REFRESHES NOTICE:

This is the refreshes notice for the SBIPS SA. 

This RFSA will solicit:

(1) New suppliers to become Suppliers for the Solution Based
Supply Arrangements under the SBIPS Method of Supply; and,

(2) Suppliers who have a SA issued under RFSA EN537-05IT01/H to
qualify for additional Streams, regions/metropolitan areas or
Tier to be added to its Supply Arrangement.


BACKGROUND

This document will serve to refresh the RFSA in place for the
provision of SBIPS and to maintain the current SA awarded under
EN537-05IT01/H.  


REQUIREMENT:

This solicitation is a RFSA to satisfy Canada's requirement for
the provision of SBIPS to locations throughout Canada, excluding
any locations in areas subject to any of the Comprehensive Land
Claim Agreement.

This procurement vehicle includes eleven Streams:

LIST OF STREAMS:

Stream 1.	Business Transformation
Stream 2.	Enterprise Resource Planning / Customer Relationship
Management (ERP/ CRM)
Stream 3.	Electronic Services Delivery
Stream 4.	Geospatial Informatics Services
Stream 5.	Information Management/Business Intelligence
Stream 6.	IT Systems Management
Stream 7.	Legacy Support and Transition
Stream 8.	Managed Services
Stream 9.	Network Services
Stream 10.	Security Management
Stream 11.	Systems Integration


THREE REFRESHES PERIODS:

After the date of issuance of the SA, a refresh process will be
initiated which enables the pre-qualification of new suppliers
and/or further pre-qualification to add streams for existing
Suppliers already included in the ePortal of the Centralized
Professional Services System (CPSS).  

The result of an arrangement submitted on the due date of a
re-compete or refresh period will be replaced when the next
annual re-competition occurs.  Therefore, all suppliers must
submit an arrangement before the submission due date of an
annual re-competition in order to continue to provide services
under its resulting SA.


REFRESH PERIODS:

Period 1:  from January 20, 2015 to March 02, 2015, at 2:00
P.M., Bid Receiving Unit, 0B2 and DCC
Period 2:  from March 03, 2015 to June 01, 2015, at 2:00 P.M.,
Bid Receiving Unit, 0B2 and DCC
Period 3:  from June 02, 2015 to July 24, 2015, at 2:00 P.M.,
Bid Receiving Unit, 0B2 and DCC

The refresh periods may require a revision due to operational
requirement, in which case suppliers will be advised accordingly.


SET-ASIDE PROGRAM FOR ABORIGINAL BUSINESS:

Part of this procurement may be designated by one or more
Identified Users as set-aside under the federal government's
Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business (PSAB). In these
specific cases, (i) the procurement is set aside from the
international trade agreements under the provision each has for
set-asides for small and minority businesses, and (ii) as per
Article 1802 of the AIT, the AIT does not apply.

In order to be considered as an Aboriginal Business under the
PSAB, the Supplier must complete the Aboriginal Business
certification contained in the Data Collection Component of the
CPSS.

By executing the certification, the Supplier warrants that it is
an Aboriginal business as defined in the Set-aside Program for
Aboriginal Business.


LOCATION OF SERVICES:

The document titled "Definitions of the National Zone, Regions
and Metropolitan Areas" at the following link are incorporated
by reference into any resulting SA, with the exception that the
National Zone is to be considered as another Region:
http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/spc-cps/dznrrm-dnzrma-eng.ht
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The following Regions and Metropolitan areas may receive
Services under this supply arrangement where a Supplier is
qualified to do so:

Regions: 

National Zone, Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Western, Pacific,
National Capital.

Metropolitan Areas: 

Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Calgary,
Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, National
Capital Region.
	
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:

The services to be provided will be delivered in one or both of
the two official languages of Canada according to the
requirements of the Identified User a contract against the SA.


CENTRALIZED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SYSTEM (CPSS):

All suppliers that want to submit a response to this RFSA will
have to establish an account in the Supplier Module of the PWGSC
Centralized Professional Services System (CPSS) e-Portal.
Instructions on accessing the Supplier Module e-Portal
application are specified in the RFSA document published on Buy
and Sell.

Suppliers will be required to submit a portion of their
technical bid through the CPSS e-Portal Supplier Module.

NOTE: As the CPSS e-Portal does not currently accommodate
digital signatures, Suppliers will also be required to submit
documents in hard copy format through the Bid Receiving Unit.
Instructions in the RFSA provide further details.


INFORMATION REGARDING THE RFSA:

Information regarding the RFSA can be obtained from:

IMOS / MDAI
PWGSC / TPSGC
1-866-930-IMOS (4667)
RCNMDAI.-NCRIMOS@tpsgc-pwgsc.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.