Web-based Scientific and Technical Information Analytical
Platform

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: 
INTELLIXIR
46, rue des tanneurs
France
04100
Nature of Requirements: 
WEB-BASED SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION ANALYTICAL
PLATFORM


An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community
that a department or agency intends to award a contract for
goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier,
thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in
bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no
supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the
requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date
stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed
with the award to the pre-identified supplier.

DEFINITION OF THE REQUIREMENT

National Research Council Canada (NRC) requires a Web-based
Scientific and Technical Information Analytical Platform for
performing analysis on scientific and technical information to
discover trends and innovation related activities. 

Canada intends to enter into a sole source contract with
INTELLIXIR for the purpose of procuring the Platform, including
associating maintenance and support service.

The projected access to major analytical functionality segments
would be granted to about 30 persons working as scientific and
technical intelligence analysts. The results of their work may
potentially be distributed to about 500 persons who would use
the system in a collaborative mode to explore data and for
reporting purposes such as summaries, reports, analysis results,
dashboards etc.

CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE STATEMENT OF CAPABILITIES

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement
of capabilities that it meets the
following requirements:

1.	General System Requirements

a.	The system must be web based;
b.	The system must support client, user, and administrator
access through Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers;
c.	All system interfaces, command and help files must support
English and French languages;
d.	The system must allows for NRC branding of both client and
staff/administrative interfaces.

2.	Accounts Creation 

The system must support:

a.	the creation of  administrator, user, and client account
types;
b.	the grouping of users into teams;
c.	assignment of system access privileges to account types;
d.	account creation as required to internal and to external
clients of NRC, depending on service projects.

3.	Data and metadata manipulation

a.	Available bibliographic data import filters must cover
Science and Technology (S&T) sources from major publishers;

The system must:

b.	have capacity to provide bibliographic data import filters as
required;
c.	support imports of generic, user-created tagged TSV files;
d.	have capacity to fuse files once imported or through
importation means;
e.	have capacity to deduplicate and delete records (singles and
in batches);
f.	provide tools specially developed to support data cleaning
and disambiguation of affiliation and author type fields; 
g.	provide the creation and import of thesauri for reusability
and  editing;
h.	provide enable and facilitate variation reduction of terms
and subjects;
i.	provide custom fields creation and records annotation;
j.	allow user-defined ranking of records and information in the
system;
k.	provide advanced searching capabilities as well as sorting by
fields;
l.	facilitate creation and management of data fields grouping
through specialized interface;
m.	support creation of data subsets based on search parameters;
n.	support cloning of databases and sub-databases with retention
of processing.

4.	Client Interface 

The system must:

a.	support client access to all interaction channels from a
single web page;
b.	offer multiple interfaces according to user expertise and
roles;
c.	provide online help files.

5.	User  Interface

The system must:

a.	offer capabilities to export images in various formats;
b.	offer capabilities to export database files in spreadsheet
format;
c.	offer capabilities to export user generated reports in MS
Word, PowerPoint, and Excel formats;
d.	allow users to set individual preferences.

6.	Administrator Interface

a.	The system must support the global administration of the
system through a single customizable web  interface.

7.	Collaboration capacity

a.	The system must provide capabilities to interact with experts
and clients through web-based interface for information
validation and categorization.

8.	Analytical processes, visualization and outputs 

The system must provide:

a.	built-in, real time dashboard-type bibliometric and
scientometric methodologies based on text and data mining
capabilities to analyze bibliographic records and generate
understanding of S&T trends:

i.	Identification of players, organizations, authors or other
fields as well as capacity to point to outliers and adhoc
selections;
ii.	Analysis by country, affiliation, subject, chronology, or
any fields contained in the databases;
iii.	Identification of emerging trends, Research and
Intellectual Property portfolio comparisons.

b.	capacity to generate lists, matrices in the web-based
interface and provide capacity to export in various format;
c.	interactive visualization tools from analytical, text mining
outputs, allowing interactive filtering, zooming, categorizing
and direct linked access to underlying data:

i.	Capacity to visualize groups (subjects, clusters) and
generate new visualization perspective on the fly;
ii.	Capacity to offer interactive bar charts, graphs and other
visuals providing access to underlying data;
iii.	Visualization of networks : Authors, organizations,
concepts and custom fields, etc. and interactive, live
manipulation of network maps by users and clients;
iv.	S&T Landscape visualization.

9. Reports creation

The system must:

a.	support customizable reports including workspace specific
metadata fields;
b.	support pre-built reports;
c.	support the ability to create report templates;
d.	be able to export reports as .csv, .xls, .pdf, .doc, .txt;
e.	support the output of analytical function in graphical,
visualization formats.

10.	Integration

The system must support integration with:

a.	other S&T analytical and bibliographical tools such as
Vantage Point; 
b.	MS Sharepoint 2007 or 2010.

11.	Support

a.	The system must provides online Help files;

The vendor must provide:

b.	administrator training;
c.	onsite implementation support;
d.	telephone and email technical support.

12. Hardware and Software Requirements

a.	The system must be available for an in-house installation.

APPLICABILITY OF THE TRADE AGREEMENT(S) TO THE PROCUREMENT

This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement(s): 

a.	Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT);
b.	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PRE-IDENTIFIED SUPPLIER

Intellixir is the only known online structured information
analytics platform dedicated to science and technology
publications and patents currently on the market that can meet
above requirements, enabling NRC to use any data source to
analyze and not limited to proprietary sources.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS REGULATIONS EXCEPTION(S)

Section 6.d of the Government Contract Regulations is being
invoked in this procurement as only one person or firm is
capable of performing the contract. 

EXCLUSION AND/OR LIMITED TENDERING REASONS

Annex 4.4 article 506.12(b) of the AIT is applicable on the
basis of limited tendering 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, respectively.

Article 1016.2(b) of NAFTA is applicable on the basis of limited
tendering due to reasons 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. 

OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of
the proposed contract will vest in the Contractor.

THE PERIOD OF THE PROPOSED CONTRACT OR THE DELIVERY DATE(S)

The proposed contract is for a period of 4 years, including 3
one-year irrevocable options. All delivery mentioned in the
requirement must be delivered within 10 days of Contract award.

NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE PRE-IDENTIFIED SUPPLIER:

INTELLIXIR, 46, rue des tanneurs, Manosque 04100 France

SUPPLIER'S RIGHT TO SUBMIT A STATEMENT OF CAPABILITIES

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the goods, services or
construction services described in the ACAN, may submit a
statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person
identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this
notice.

The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the
supplier meets the advertised requirements. 

The conditions of the developer's shrink-wrap license are not
acceptable to the Crown. This software is proprietary, and the
proposed Contractor must have the authority to negotiate the
terms and conditions of the contract and the related software
licensing terms including, but not limited to; limitation of
liability, indemnification, transferability of license,
termination/refund to the Crown.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada

INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSION OF STATEMENT OF CAPABILITIES

Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:

Mike Talom
Supply Officer
Public Works and Government Services Canada
Gatineau, Québec, Canada (K1A 0S5)
Mike.Talom@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
Telephone 819-956-1421
Facsimile 819-953-3703
Government of Canada




Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

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with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any
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calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it
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statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person
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how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

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