Online Research Database

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: None
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes previous bid
solicitation number 47104-136855/A dated April 2, 2014, with a
closing of May 6, 2014 at 2:00 PM EDT. A debriefing or feedback
session will be provided upon request to
bidders/offerors/suppliers who bid on the previous solicitation.


TITLE:

ONLINE RESEARCH DATABASE


DESCRIPTION:

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has an ongoing and
evident need to obtain accurate and up-to-date factual data, and
historical information pertaining to entities (Canadian,
foreign, public, private, organizational and individual) and
their functional, financial and relational activities.  CBSA
also requires information regarding international events, and
local news from around the world in relation to security and
public safety, public records, legal proceedings, business
activities and financial data.  

Such information is for use in decision making or support in
decision-making by CBSA staff.  Information used may be subject
for review in legal proceedings and must therefore be obtained
from reputable and reliable sources.  Accurate, comprehensive
and trusted data is required to minimize risks when
decision-making in a 'real-time' environment with short response
deadlines.


TRADE AGREEMENTS:

This requirement is subject to the Agreement on Internal Trade
(AIT).


MANDATORY EVALUATION CRITERIA:

To be considered responsive, a bid must meet all of the
following mandatory evaluation criteria. Bids not meeting all of
these mandatory requirements will be given no further
consideration. Consequently, Bidders are encouraged to supply as
much information as necessary to demonstrate clearly that the
mandatory requirements have been met.

The Bidder must provide a free trial period for one (1) month
access to three (3) concurrent users in order for evaluators to
validate the claims of the bidder.  The trial accounts must be
provided with the bid and be operational at the closing date of
this Request for proposal.
	M1.	The database must allow users to change passwords as
required.
	M2.	The database must allow users to retrieve forgotten
passwords.

	M3.	The database must include a feature allowing users to set
display language (English or 			French).
	M4.	90% of the content of the articles must be "full content",
rather than "abstracts".
	M5.	The contents available in the database must include
Canadian and foreign content (both 			archived and current
articles and reports)

	M6.	The contents available in the database must include
vernacular material from foreign 			sources, along with
translation tools to make all the material automatically
available in 			either French or English.

	M7.	The database's search engine must be able to conduct a
search within at least 40,000 			online documents and a minimum
of 34 years of archival information.

	M8.	The proposed database must provide full-text content from
the following news 				sources:

Xinhua News
Fars News Agency
African Press Organization

	M9.	In addition to the news sources outlined in M8, the
proposed database must provide 			full-text content from 25 of
the following 30 news sources: 
	
Africa News
Agency France Presse
Al-Ahram Weekly
Al Arabiya.net
All Africa Web Publications
BBC Monitoring
Bloomberg
China Daily European Edition
CQ Congressional Press Releases
Deutsche Presses - Agentur
Hindustan Times
IHS Global Insight
Intelligence Online
Interfax News Agency
ITAR-TASS
Jane's Defence Weekly
Mehr News Agency (MNA)
RIA Novosti
South Asian Times
South China Morning Post
States News Service
The Christian Science Monitor
The Guardian
The Independent
The Japan News
The Jerusalem Post
The New York Times
The Times of India
The Washington Post
United Press International

	M10.	The proposed database must have the capability to conduct
advanced searches in 			Boolean language.

	M11.	The proposed database must have the capability to use a
variety of "filters" to limit the 			search criteria or the
search results, such as date filters or country filters.

	M12.	The Bidder must provide a free trial period for one (1)
month access to three (3) 				concurrent users in order for
evaluators to validate the claims of the bidder. If Canada
			determines that the Bidder has not provided operational trial
accounts at bid closing, 			Canada will allow the Bidder the
opportunity to submit username and passwords to 			access the
free trial. Failure to provide such access and associated
information within the 		time frame provided, will result in the
bid being declared non-responsive.   

	M13.	The bidder must be able to provide group training to its
database users on a yearly basis 			for up to 38 database users.

POINT-RATED EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Point-Rated Evaluation Criteria are included in Annex D of the
bid solicitation.

BASIS OF SELECTION:

To be declared responsive, a bid must:
	(a)	comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; 
	(b)	meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; 
	(c)	obtain a minimum overall score of seventy (70%) percent of
the points value 				allocated for the rated criteria. The
rating is performed on a scale of 33 					points value.
Proposals not meeting a) or b) or c) above will be given no
further consideration. The lowest compliant cost-per-point
proposal will be recommended for award of a contract. Where two
or more responsive proposals achieve an identical score, the
proposal achieving the highest number of rated points (by
calculating the sum of all the awarded points) will be
recommended for award of a contract.

CONTRACTING AUTHORITY:

Rosella Rinaldo
Supply Specialist

Public Works and Government Services Canada 
Acquisitions Branch 
Commercial and Consumer Products Directorate - PR Division
Place du Portage, Phase III, 6A2
11 Laurier Street
Gatineau, Québec K1A OS5

Telephone:	(819) 956-0001
E-mail:		rosella.rinaldo@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.