Procurement of Artifacts Management SoftwareThe Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is currently deploying the CRA Enterprise DevOps Platform (CEDP). The CRA has identified the need to acquire the Artifacts Management Software licenses that will support the CEDP.The objective of the procurement of two Artifacts Management software licenses is to be deployed for the CRA development environment and production environment for CEDP. The Artifacts Management Software licenses will include all basic functionalities around Binary artifacts management to expend the CEDP and integrate the security practices of scanning external binaries for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and take specified preventive actions based on the severity of the CVE into the CEDP.The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) intends to enter into a contract with a single contractor for the delivery of Artifacts Management Software licenses.This requirement also includes options to purchase additional quantities of the Artifacts Management Software (including maintenance and support).The period of any resulting contract will be for three (3) years with CRA retaining the irrevocable option to extend for up to three (3) additional one (1) year periods.A detailed statement of requirement and information regarding bidding requirements is contained in the Request for Proposal document available exclusively via https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tendersQues… must be directed in writing to the contracting authority via email:Jing. G••@•••••••.••.caWhen responding, the proposal must be delivered to the Bid Receiving Unit address indicated below.BIDDERS ARE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO:Canada Revenue AgencyBid Receiving U•••••••@•••••••.••.caBids will not be accepted if emailed directly to this email address. This email address must be used to request that CRA open a Connect conversation, as detailed in Standard Instructions 2003. Bidders must not use their own licensing agreement for Connect to initiate a Connect conversation with CRA.
