Local Internet Access Services (LIAS)

Solicitation No.: BPM014160
Department: Shared Services Canada (SSC)
Notification Period: Friday October 22, 2021 to Friday December 17, 2021 
Delivery Destination Area:  Canada / National
 
Description of Requirement: Shared Services Canada (SSC) requires Local Internet Access Services (LIAS) for federal government sites across Canada on an as-and-when requested basis for SSC itself, its exclusive Partner Organizations, Mandatory Clients, and any other Government Organization that chooses to use SSC for the procurement of its LIAS.
 
This Request for Supply Arrangement is to invite Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to prequalify their business through this solicitation. All suppliers that demonstrate the required experience and capacity will be qualified as part of the resulting Supply Arrangements (SAs) for opportunities to supply Canada with LIAS.
 
The intent is to issue Supply Arrangements to all qualified ISPs. The resulting SAs will be used to:

• Establish a list of qualified ISPs for future exclusive competition of LIAS requirements
• Standardize resulting contracts for a more efficient and timely contract award process
• Streamline future solicitations, their responses, inquiries, and invoicing, to improve organizational processes while reducing manual clerical deficiencies.
• Formalize and consolidate pre-existing Legacy and Contracted Connections for ease of management and payment
• Recompete pre-existing Contracted Connections as they expire
• Establish new LIAS Connections

 
This RFSA is not a solicitation of bids or tenders and is intended to pre-qualify suppliers that possess the criteria required by SSC to be issued a Supply Arrangement. Although SSC intends to award as many SAs as possible resulting from this RFSA, there is no obligation to award a contract as a result of being issued an SA from this RFSA process.
 
Procure to Pay (P2P) Portal: Procure to Pay (P2P) is an integral part of SSC’s contracting processes where all SSC requirements and solicitations are posted and managed. Suppliers must be registered and logged into P2P in order to submit a response. Registering for an account will allow vendors to view, respond, bid, invoice, and manage opportunities with SSC. Resources are available to assist your business with account setup and support. Visit https://sscp2pspc.ssc-spc.gc.ca and click “New Supplier? / Register Now” to get started on creating your account.

• SSC Local Internet Access Services (LIAS)- Amendment 001