Space based AIS Services

Trade Agreement: CETA / CFTA
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall  Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 

Amendment 002

Amendment 002 answers bidders' questions.

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Amendment 001

Amendment moves the closing date of the RFP to December 16, 2019 and answers bidders' questions.

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Title
Space Based AIS (SB-AIS) Data Services 

Description
In order to support the operational needs of numerous government departments, the Government of Canada (GC), through the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has a requirement for SB-AIS data services for monitoring of Canadian and global maritime traffic that can also be queried for historical tracking purposes. The Contractor must be capable of providing a service, which detects AIS signals of vessels anywhere on Earth and processes these signals into AIS messages usable by the GC, in accordance with the requirements stated in the Statement of Work. The GC’s requirement may also include vessel position confirmation, additional connections and accounts, data format conversions, additional data and AIS data reports and analyses, through Task Authorizations (on an as and when requested basis).

Security Requirements
There are no security requirements.

Period of Contract
From the date of contract issuance to one (1) year from the service delivery start date, with four (4) option periods of one (1) year each.

Trade Agreements
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

Electronic Bidding
This bid solicitation allows bidders to use the epost Connect service provided by Canada Post Corporation to transmit their bid electronically.  Bidders must refer to Part 2 entitled Bidder Instructions, and Part 3 entitled Bid Preparation Instructions, of the bid solicitation, for further information.

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.