RMSO Trailers and Road Tractor

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall  Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes previous bid
solicitation number E6QUE-130004/B dated 2014/09/26 with a
closing of 2014/10/02 at 14h00. A debriefing or feedback session
will be provided upon request to bidders/offerors/suppliers who
bid on the previous solicitation.

Bidders who submit a bid agree to be bound by the instructioins,
clauses and conditions of the bid solicitation and accept the
clauses and conditions of the resulting contract.

(i)	Title:	Multiple Regional Master Standing Offers (RMSO) for
the rental of: road tractors, semi-trailers, cargo carriers, and
bucket trucks for the region of Quebec. It is anticipated that
the Department of National Defence will be the main user of this
RMSO.

(ii)	Description:

Provide as needed, call-up service for semi-trailers, road
tractors, cargo carriers and bucket trucks for the region of
Quebec. Although this RMSO is available to all departments it is
anticipated that the main user will be the Department of
National Defence (DND). Specifically, the main sectors covered
in this RMSO are:

1)	Quebec Region (Valcartier) :	
Mainly including the Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier and
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Valcartier; 

2)	Montreal Region (Longue-Pointe) :
Mainly including the Canadian Forces Base in Longue-Pointe; 

3)	Montérégie Region (St-Jean and St-Hubert):
Mainly including the Canadian Forces Bases in St-Jean and
St-Hubert; 

4)	Saguenay Region (Bagotville):
Mainly including the Canadian Forces Base in Bagotville.

An offeror inventory is being drawn up for semi-trailer, road
tractor, cargo carriers and bucket trucks rental services, by
area, for various categories of vehicles and different rental
durations (short term (30 days or less) and long term (more than
30 days)).

The Offerors may bid for the various Quebec administrative
regions identified in Annex C and may provide rates for the
delivery of vehicles for the Canadian Forces Bases identified
above.

The Offerors can bid on one or more vehicle categories
identified in Annex C, Rate Table.

(iii)	Standing Offer Period :

	The Standing Offer will take effect from May 1, 2015 to October
31, 2017, inclusive.

(iv)	Multiple Standing Offers :

	Canada expects to issue multiple standing offers to offerors of
heavy vehicle rental services who meet the evaluation criteria
and pass the selection procedure detailed herein.  The inventory
will be accessible to all areas covered by this Request for
Standing Offers.

(v)	Standing Offer value :

	An undetermined number of Standing Offers may be established
subsequent to this Request for Standing Offers. To make
administration of the Standing Offers easier, all Standing
Offers issued subsequent to this solicitation will reflect a
dollar value of "NIL". This does not limit the volume of
business the Offeror may do with the Federal Government.

(vi)	Other information :

-	Offerors must submit a list of names of administrators, or
other related information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of
Standard Instructions 2006 and 2007.
 
-	For services requirements, Offerors in receipt of a pension or
a lump sum payment must provide the required information as
detailed in article 3 of Part 2 of the Request for Standing
Offers (RFSO).

-	The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement
on Internal Trade (AIT).

-	The requirement is limited to Canadian services.


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languages (French and English).

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The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.