LEARNING SERVICES

Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall  Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
This bid solicitation is a tender for bids to satisfy the
Government of Canada's requirement for the provision of Learning
Services to locations throughout Canada, excluding any locations
in areas subject to any of the Comprehensive Land Claims
Agreements (the "Services").

On-Going Opportunity for Qualification

This bid solicitation provides an On-Going Opportunity for
Qualification to  allow new suppliers to become "Qualified
Suppliers" with a Supply Arrangement.  Existing Qualified
Suppliers, may submit an arrangement in order to become a
Qualified Suppliers for Tiers, Categories of Personnel and/or
Streams for which they were not previously qualified.

Existing Qualified Suppliers, who have been issued a supply
arrangement, are not required to submit a new arrangement to
maintain their existing Tiers, Categories of Personnel and/or
Streams for which they are currently qualified.  

Due to the resources required to evaluate the arrangements,
Canada has reserved the right to conduct the evaluation of
arrangements in cycles, not less than quarterly (that is, Canada
may collect arrangements received over a calendar year quarter,
in order to conduct the evaluation of all those arrangements
concurrently as part of a single cycle of evaluations). The
schedule below outlines the closing dates for each quarterly
evaluation.  Bids received as part of the On-Going Opportunity
for Qualification after the dates listed below will fall into
the next quarterly evaluation schedule.

Quarterly Evaluation Periods:

Quarter	Closing Date	Time of Closing:	Evaluation Period:
Q3	January 4, 2013	02:00 PM  Eastern Standard Time (EST)	January
5 to March 29
Q4	March 29, 2013	02:00 PM  Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)	April 1
to June 28
Q1	June 28, 2013	02:00 PM  Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)	June 29
to September 30
Q2	September 30, 2013	02:00 PM  Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT)	October 1 to December 31
Q3	January 3, 2014	02:00 PM  Eastern Standard Time (EST)	January
4 to March 29


  
Each bid may result in a Supply Arrangement.  All suppliers
capable of meeting the requirements of this bid solicitation are
invited to submit a bid for the Services containing an
arrangement for a Supply Arrangement. 	

Streams/Categories of Personnel

The Services include the following Streams/Categories of
Personnel:  

Stream 1 - Strategic Learning Advisory Service
Stream 2 - Instructional Design and Development Service
Stream 3 - Custom e-Learning Product Programming Service
Stream 4 - Rapid e-Learning Product Programming Service
Stream 5 - Quality Assurance Service
Stream 6 - Multimedia Design and Development Service
Stream 7 - Project Management Service
Stream 8 - Training Delivery

For Streams 1 - 7, Bids will be evaluated on a Stream basis. 
Therefore, if a bidder wishes to submit a bid for services in
only one specific Stream, then it has the opportunity to do so.
It is not mandatory to provide a bid for all Streams to be
issued an instrument; however, if a minimum response is required
to obtain a Category of Personnel/ Stream, that response must be
provided in the bid.

For Stream 8, bids will be evaluated on a Category of Personnel
basis. Therefore, if a bidder wishes to submit a bid for
services in only one specific Category of Personnel then it has
the opportunity to do so.  It is not mandatory to provide a bid
for all Categories of Personnel to be issued an instrument;
however, if a minimum response is required to obtain a Category
of  Stream, that response must be provided in the bid.

Clients / Identified Users

Any resulting instrument may be used by any Government
Department, Departmental Corporation or Agency, or other body of
the Government of Canada (including all those described in the
Financial Administration Act, as amended from time to time) or
any other party for which the Department of Public Works and
Government Services has been authorized to act from time to time
under section 16 of the Department of Public Works and
Government Services Act (each a "Client" or "Identified User"). 
	
The Period of the Instrument

The period for awarding contracts under the Supply Arrangement
is from date of issuance of the SA or June 1, 2012 (whichever is
later) to November 28, 2014.
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.