Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited
to bid
Attachment: None
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
Snap-on Tools of Canada Ltd.
195A Harry Walker Parkway North
Newmarket Ontario
Canada
L3Y7B3
Nature of Requirements:
Diagnostic Scan Tool
W2037-140052/A
1. Advanced Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community
that a department or agency intends to award a contract for
goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier,
thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in
bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no
supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the
requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date
stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed
with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2. Definition of the Requirement
For the supply and delivery of ten (10) SOLUS Ultra Industrial
hand held diagnostic scan tools, for DND Royal Canadian
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers School (RCEME) CFB Borden,
ON.
The RCEME School presently utilizes various automotive
simulators to deliver training for Vehicle Technicians. These
simulators are used by instructional staff to demonstrate
maintenance procedures and to instruct the construction and
operation of automotive systems and their components. Students
use the automotive simulators to perform maintenance tasks
including testing, diagnosing and troubleshooting of its
mechanical, electrical and electronic systems.
Diagnostics of training simulators is unique as the manufactured
systems resemble those of a vehicle however, many of the
components normally associated with a real life vehicle are
excluded on simulators. This situation restricts the
availability of many diagnostic scan tools to communicate with
the simulator management system.
The RCEME School previously conducted extensive research to
determine the capability of various hand held diagnostic scan
tools. Due to the requirements that scan tools must provide
bidirectional communication with the training simulators, no
other diagnostic scan tools could provide this capability.
Bidirectional control is critical to Vehicle Technician training
as students must be able to extract automotive data parameters
as well as provide commanded input to various components of the
training simulators.
3. The Minimum Essential Requirements:
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement
of capabilities that its Diagnostic Scan
Tool meets the following minimum specifications.
Must be electrically powered from a vehicle battery source and
include rechargeable internal batteries
Must provide a device to recharge internal batteries
Must communicate with On Board Diagnostic systems I and II
Must have the capability for the user to update the diagnostic
scan tool software
Must provide bidirectional communication
Must perform component function tests
Must provide vehicle coverage for Domestic and Asian light
vehicle models
Must provide the user with real live training simulator
DataStream
Must obtain, display and erase diagnostic trouble codes
Must display data values in both English standard and metric
systems
Must communicate with power train, body and chassis control
modules
Must include a trouble shooting database of common fixes
Must provide the option to print and save system parameters
4. Applicability of the Trade agreement (s) to the procurement
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement(s):
Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
It is intended to sole source this requirement to Snap-On Tools
of Canada Ltd, the only known source on the market who can meet
the minimum specifications.
6. Government Contracts Regulations Exception
The following exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
is invoked for this procurement under subsection 6(d) Only one
person or firm is capable of performing the work.
7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
The following exclusion(s) and/or limited tendering reasons are
invoked under the section of the trade agreement(s) specified:
- AIT), Article 506.12 (b) where there is an absence of
competition for technical reasons and the goods
or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no
alternative or substitute exists.
-NAFTA, Article 1016.2 b): Where, for works of art, or for
reasons connected with the protection of patents, copyrights or
other exclusive rights, or proprietary information or where
there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, the
goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier
and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists.
8. Delivery Date
The Units must be delivered on or before 31, March 2014.
9. Name and address of the pre-identified supplier
Snap-on Tools of Canada Ltd. 195A Harry Walker Parkway North,
Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 7B3 Canada.
10. Suppliers' right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the goods, services or construction services
described in the ACAN may submit a statement of capabilities in
writing to the contact person identified in this notice on or
before the closing date of this notice. The statement of
capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the
advertised requirements.
11. Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities
The closing date and time for accepting statements of
capabilities is 19, December 2013 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
12. Inquiries and submission of statements of capabilities
Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:
Vashti Ramnarine
Public Works and Government Services Canada
Acquisitions Branch - Ontario
33 City Centre Dr., Ste. 480C , Mississauga, Ontario L5B 2N5
Telephone: 905-615-2419 Facsimile: 905-615-2060
E-mail address: v••••••••@•••••.••.ca
Delivery Date: 31/03/2014
You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate
with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any
questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting
officer identified above.
An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and
agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen (15)
calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it
intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a
pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or
before the closing date, a Statement of Capabilities that meets
the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contracting authority
may then proceed with the award. However, should a Statement of
Capabilities be found to meet the requirements set out in the
ACAN, then the contracting authority will proceed to a full
tendering process.
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a
statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person
identified in this Notice on or before the closing date of this
Notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate
how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
The PWGSC file number, the contracting officer's name and the
closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the
envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile
transmission, on the covering page.
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
