RECORDS STORAGE

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: No
Nature of Requirements: 
RECORDS STORAGE


Veterans Affairs Canada requires records storage and reference
services for non-archival information resources for Veterans
Affairs Canada offices located across Canada.  

The files are allocated based on geographical area and they must
stay that way for operational reasons. The work in each area
includes but is not limited to:  accession, storage, retrieval,
withdrawal, refile, interfile, transportation, and destruction. 
 The offices are located in:  Dartmouth, NS; Montreal, QC;
Ottawa, ON; Toronto, ON, Winnipeg, MB; and Vancouver, BC.

It is intended to award the Contract to a single service
provider or joint venture provided there is one(1) Inventory
Management Control System (IMCS) to meet the following
requirement:  the Contractor's IMCS will be a streamlined,
enterprise-wide and nationally integrated system that will
provide the capability for a single view of VAC's consolidated
inventory holdings using one datastore. Users will be able to
search for a record without the need to know where it is
physically stored.

The period of the Contract will be seven (7) years with option
to extend the term of the Contract by up to three (3) additional
one year period(s).

There is a security requirement associated with the requirement.
For additional information, consult Part 4 - Evaluation
Procedures and Basis of Selection, and Part 6 - Resulting
Contract Clauses of the Request for Proposal document.

This procurement is limited to Canadian 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.