Collection Services

Trade Agreement: LCSA/AIT
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: YES (Other)
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Subsequent/Follow-on Contracts
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 


1NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROCUREMENT (NPP)


Title: 
Request for Standing Offer - Collection Services

Background:  
Various departments have accumulated debt within their
respective organizations as a result of non-payment or partial
payment by users of their programs or services. This NMSO will
allow all federal government departments, agencies and Crown
Corporations, who have outstanding debt, to collect the
outstanding amounts in order to meet the operational
requirements of their respective organizations.

Scope:
To establish a National Master Standing Offer (NMSO) for the
collection services of debt owed to Canada, on an "as and when
requested" basis, to assist various Identified Authorized
User(s) to use the NMSO to fulfill their individual requirement
across Canada.

Any resulting Standing Offer Agreements will be for a period of
three (3) years commencing upon Standing Offer Agreement award.

Canada may exercise an option to extend the term of the Standing
Offer Agreement by up to two (2) additional one (1) year
period(s) under the same conditions. The Contractor agrees that,
during the extended period of the Standing Offer Agreement, it
will be paid in accordance with the applicable provisions as set
out in the Basis of Payment.

Security Requirement: 
There is a security requirement associated with the requirement
of the Standing Offer. For additional information, see Part 6 -
Security, Financial and Insurance Requirements, and Part 7 -
Standing Offer and Resulting Contract Clauses.

Selection Methodology
To be declared responsive, an offer must: 
(a)	comply with all the requirements of the Request for Standing
Offers; 
(b)	meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and 
(c)	obtain the required minimum numbers of points specified in
each of the point rated technical criterion.

Offers not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared
non-responsive. Neither the responsive offer that receives the
highest number of points nor the one that proposed the lowest
price will necessarily be accepted. The responsive offer with
the lowest evaluated price per point as calculated from a ratio
of the technical points scored to the price for each compliant
bid evaluated will be ranked first.  Of the highest ranked
responsive offers in ascending order up to 3 will be recommended
for issuance of a standing offer.

The lowest price per rated point will be determined as follows. 

Price per Rated Point = Total Cost (Excluding Option Periods) /
Total Points Achieved

In the event two or more responsive offers have the same lowest
evaluated price per point, these offers will be ranked in
descending order of the overall scores obtained for all the
point rated technical criteria; the responsive offer obtaining
the highest overall score being ranked the highest.

Enquiries 
All enquiries must be submitted in writing to the Standing Offer
Authority no later than ten (10) calendar days before the
Request for Standing Offers (RFSO) closing date. Enquiries
received after that time may not be answered.
Name of the Standing Offer Authority: Melissa Thompson
E-mail address: melissa.thompson@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

Delivery Date: 10/02/2015

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

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.