REMOVAL, STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: If 3+ bids offer Canadian goods/services
other bids will not be considered
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
REMOVAL AND STORAGE OF HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS IN OTHER CANADIAN
CITIES 
EXCLUDING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION (NCR) 

AND 

REMOVAL, STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION OF HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS FROM 
CANADIAN CITIES INCLUDING THE NCR TO THE UNITED STATES

08956-120351
Alfred Ogbumor.
Telephone No. (819) 956-3589
Fax No. (819) 956-4944

The Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada on
behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade Canada (DFAIT), requires National Master Standing Offers, 
(NMSOs), for the provision of removal, storage and
transportation services for Household Effects on an as-and-when
requested basis.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
(DFAIT) is responsible for the relocation of its employees and
their dependents from Canada to Canada's Missions abroad and
from Canada's Missions abroad back to Canada. To support these
relocations, DFAIT requires removal and storage services for
Household Effects.

Services include:

(a) preparation, packing, delivery and/or long-term storage of
personal household effects, from/to employees' residences
to/from storage facilities of the Offeror in the Other Canadian
Cities excluding the NCR and (b) preparation, packing, delivery
and/or long-term storage of personal household effects and
transportation from Other Canadian cities including the NCR to
the United States (US).

The employees concerned are DFAIT employees and employees from
other government departments who are being relocated from Canada
to Canada's missions abroad and from Canada's missions abroad
back to Canada. There is also a requirement for bonded storage
for employees on assignments from Mission to Mission (cross
-posting) under the terms of the Foreign Service Directives
(FSD) which will require a bonded storage warehouse.

It is the intention to qualify up to a maximum of three (3)
Offerors in this Standing Offer.

An offer must comply with the requirements of the Request for
Standing Offer and meet all mandatory technical evaluation
criteria to be declared responsive for the services. The
responsive offers with the lowest total bid price will be issued
a Standing Offer (up to three (3) Offerors will be selected).

Those Offerors authorized to provide services must submit a firm
unit prices for these services in  the Basis of Payment. 

The period of the standing offers will be for two (2) years,
from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014, plus an option for a
(1) one year extension, from January 1, 2015 to December 31,
2015, should the extension year be exercised. The call-up
limitation for the standing offers will be $100,000.00 (GST
included).


The request for Standing Offers will be solely limited to
suppliers offering Canadian goods and services.

Offerors must make sure that they fulfill all the mandatory
technical criteria to be considered. Failure to do so will cause
their Offer to be non-responsive. 
 
If PWGSC notifies the Offeror that it intends to issue a
standing offer, the Offeror shall, at its sole expense, provide
financial security to the Crown within 7 calendar days from such
notification, in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit in
the amount of $50,000.00 Canadian dollars.


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.