ESRI Software - ArcGIS

Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited
to bid
Attachment: None
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address: 
ESRI Canada Limited
12 Concorde Place
Suite 900
Toronto Ontario
Canada
M3C3R8
Nature of Requirements: 
ESRI Software - ArcGIS

M5000-145026/A
Gerstmar, Denise
Telephone No. - (306) 975-8912 
Fax No. - (306) 975-5397


Requirement:
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan has a
requirement for the supply and delivery of a ArcGIS desktop
Software as indicated below.

Mfg Part #	Item #		Description						Quantity
93168		69		ArcGIS Spatial Analyst for Desktop Single Use
License	4
93198		13		ArcGIS for Desktop Basic Single Use License		3
93206		12		ArcGIS for Desktop Standard Single Use License	1


Mandatory Specifications:
Must be commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software and not open
source
Must offer, out-of-the-box, a map web part for GIS integration
with Microsoft SharePoint
Must offer, out-of-the-box, a Microsoft Silverlight application
programming interface (API) for custom front end development in
SharePoint using Silverlight 4 and 5
Must allow developpers to author and publish custom
geo-processing web services using the representational State
Transfer (REST) web service design model to support the
implementation of situational awareness geosptial analytical web
service capabilities
Must be capable of receiving, storing, adding, modifying,
archiving, and transferring meta-data associated with entities,
including vessels, facilities, areas, aircraft, people,
organizations, etc.
Must be able to perform filtering, searching, track generation
and alerting based on attributes of the data or spatial
positions (i.e. Geo-fencing) of entities manually and
automatically
Must support deodatabase versioning, replication, and archiving
Must secure map and geoprocessing web services using tokens and
must be compatible with SharePoint security models (e.g. Archive
Directory) since authentication and authorization functions are
handled by SharePoint and the security of GIS data and web
services will be driven by these models
Must be able to publish and host map services, and support
changing layer rendering (i.e. Symbology), layer order, or add
layers on-the-fly for these map services based on users'
assigned roles
Must be compatible with principles of service orientated
architectures (SOA) and provide capabilities to integrate
information and services that are maintained on distributed
networks through the use of web services
Must not only support geospatial data, but temporal data as
well, and be able to display these data in two and three
dimensions
Must be capable of being hosted internally behind RCMP firewalls
for use in a Dsecret environment where Interest access is not
permitted
Must support and be fully compatible with the Microsoft stack.
This includes being hosted on Windows Server 2008, being fully
integrated with Active Directory for user authentication and
access control being fully supportive of Microsoft;s "Net"
technology and being fully compatible with Internet Explorer 7
which is the default browser for the RCMP.



Sole Source Justification:
ArcGIS Software is compatible with i2 Analyst Notebook software
that is currently being used
Other software packages do not provide the level of security
required that ESRI meets
ArcGIS Software is currently being used in asll division of the
RCMP
The analysts who currently use this software have undergone
considerable training on ArcGIS Software
Other softwares will cause incompatibility issues


Only Known Source of Supply:
ESRI Canada Limited
2 Research Drive, Suite 150
Regina , Saskatchewan  S4S7H9


Trade Agreements:
Government Contracts Regulations Exception and Limited Tendering
Reason:
3.15 Non-competitive Contracting Process
b)	The GCRs require the competitive soliciting of bids before
any contract is entered into. 			However, contracts may be
entered into without soliciting bids when:
	(iv) 	only one person is capable of performing the contract
(GCRs 6.(d)).

AIT
Article 506: Procedures for Procurement
12. 	Where only one supplier is able to meet the requirements of
a procurement, an entity may use                     procurement
procedures that are different from those described in paragraphs
1 through 10 in 		the following circumstances:
	(b)	where there is an absence of competition for technical
reasons and the goods or 				services can be supplied only by a
particular supplier and no alternative or 				substitute exists;

NAFTA
Article 1016: Limited Tendering Procedures
2. 	An entity may use limited tendering procedures in the
following circumstances and subject to the 	     	following
conditions, as applicable:
	(b) 	where, for works of art, or for reasons connected with the
protection of patents, 				copyrights or other exclusive rights,
or proprietary information or where there is an 			absence of
competition for technical reasons, the goods or services can be
supplied only 			by a particular supplier and no reasonable
alternative or substitute exists;




Contract Value:
The estimated value of this procurement is $31,416.00 (GST not
included), $32,986.80 (GST included).


Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

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with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any
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