ALBERT HEAD - FOOD SERVICES - VICTORIA BC CANADA

Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: If 2+ bids offer Canadian goods/services other bids will not be considered
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 

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Amendment History:

Amd 001: To postpone the solicitation closing date to 2019/12/18 14:00 PST. To publish the minutes from the mandatory site visit and Bidders’ conference held on November 27, 2019 at 1:00PM PST and answers all enquiries received from potential bidders. 

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Summary
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1. The Department of National Defence (DND), requires qualified contractor(s) to provide food services to its operations at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt - Albert Head Cadet Training Centre, Victoria BC Canada, in accordance with the requirement detailed in this bid solicitation.

This requirement includes the purchase of food supplies and ingredients, cooking, serving to authorized personnel, and clean-up of the dining facilities and equipment.

Operations are continuous during the summer operations (June, July, and August) with estimated daily requirements ranging between 15 and 875 ration strengths. Food service requirements outside of summer operations will be on an as-and-when requested basis, and for a variable number of diner strengths.  

The initial contract period is one (1) year from 01-Jun-2020 to 31-May-2021 with the irrevocable option to extend the term of the contract by up to two (2) additional one (1) year periods under the same conditions.

A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria and financial evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract. 

2. There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses. For more information on personnel and organization security screening or security clauses, Bidders should refer to the Contract Security Program of Public Works and Government Services Canada (http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/introduction-eng.html) website 

3.The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

4. The requirement is subject to a preference for Canadian services.

5. There is a MANDATORY BIDDER'S CONFERENCE AND SITE VISIT associated with this requirement.  

It is mandatory that the Bidders or representative of the Bidder to attend the bidder’s conference and visit the work site. Arrangements have been made for mandatory site visit to be held at Albert Head Training Centre, Metchosin, approximately 30 km (45 minutes) by road southwest of downtown Victoria BC Canada on Wednesday November 27, 2019. The visit will begin at 13:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST) in Kitchen Building H1015.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Bidders must communicate with the Contracting Authority no later than Friday November 22, 2019 at 2:00 PM PST. to confirm attendance and provide the name(s) of the person(s) who will attend. LATE REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Bidders will be required to sign an attendance sheet. Bidders should confirm in their bid that they have attended the site visit. Bidders who do not attend the mandatory site visit or do not send a representative will not be given an alternative appointment and their bid will be declared non-responsive. Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the site visit will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation

6. The DEADLINE FOR ALL BIDDER ENQUIRIES regarding the solicitation documents is no later than Monday Decembre 2, 2019 at 2:00 PM PST.  Consult Part 2 - Bidder Instructions.

7. The Federal Contractors Program (FCP) for employment equity applies to this procurement; refer to Part 5 - Certifications and Additional Information, Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses and the annex "K" titled Federal Contractors Program for Employment Equity - Certification.

8. 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.

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It is the responsibility of the Bidder to ensure that all amendments issued prior to solicitation closing have been obtained and addressed in the submitted bid.

Bidders intending to submit bids should obtain solicitation documents from the Government Electronic Tendering System (GETS) at https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tenders. 

The Government of Canada is not responsible for any tender notices and/or related documents and attachments not accessed directly through Buyandsell.gc.ca/tender.

Amendments, when issued, will be available on GETS. Bidders basing their submissions on solicitation documents obtained from other sources do so at their own risk.

For further information, please refer to the solicitation documents.

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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.