Safety Vocational Training

Trade Agreement: NAFTA / CFTA / FTAs with Peru / Colombia / Panama / Korea
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 

Safety Vocational Training

Correctional Service Canada is committed to providing programming to federally sentenced offenders to meet their employment needs, consistent with community standards and labour market conditions. To meet these needs, vocational training is offered to offenders serving a federal sentence.  

CORCAN is an Agency of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) within the department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. CSC and CORCAN are mandated to provide training, programs and services that facilitate offenders' re-entry into the work force following their release. CSC’s focus is to ensure that offenders who participate in CORCAN activities are fully, regularly and suitably employed in a work environment that strives to achieve private sector standards.  

CSC requires the services of up to eight Contractors to provide safety vocational training and third party certification in H2S Alive, Confined Space and Traffic Control Person training programs to groups of male and female offenders at locations in Alberta including community locations (such as community based CSC or contract residential locations in Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary and Lethbridge). The estimated number of courses for each program for each location is listed below. The minimum number of participants per course is 8 and the maximum number of participants per course is 15.

 
Alberta
- Bowden Institution (Innisfail) - up to 4 courses;
- Drumheller Institution (Drumheller) - up to 4 courses;
- Edmonton Institution for Women (Edmonton) - up to 4 courses; 
- Edmonton Institution (Edmonton) - up to 4 courses;
- Grierson Centre (Edmonton) - up to 4 courses;
- Grande Cache Institution (Grande Cache) - up to 4 courses; 
- Pe Sakastew (Maskwacis) - up to 4 courses;
- Community based CSC or contract residential locations in Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary and Lethbridge - up to 12 courses total for all community locations.

Up to eight contracts may be awarded as a result of this bid solicitation, one contract for each geographical area (Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge, Innisfail, Drumheller, Grande Cache, Maskwacis).

The contract period will be from date of Contract for a period of one-year with the irrevocable option to extend the contract by two periods of one-year each.

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 and Part 7.  

The resulting contract is not to be used for the deliveries within a Comprehensive Land Claims Settlement Area (CLCSA). 

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.

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.