ADVANCE CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE (ACAN)
1. Advance 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 Requirements
The department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has a requirement to obtain economic and industry information, services, analysis, and data, to support efforts to improve forest sector competitiveness while advancing environmental leadership. NRCan requires detailed information at the firm, mill, and machine level for pulp and paper production, including production capacity and costs, types of products, fibre inputs, types of equipment, emissions, and ownership information for pulp and paper mills in North America and optionally for global mills. NRCan is looking for at least 25 accounts with access to this information through a website and/or software package.
3. Criteria for Assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that they possess a software package or web application capable of performing custom data compilations, data filtering, and scenario analysis with the following specifications:
1) Comprehensive database (updated quarterly) with data and capabilities as listed below:
Data Information:
Capacity and Cost: Machine, mill, and firm-level mill gate and delivered production costs for the pulp and paper industry with at least the following cost categories: Capital costs; fibre and/or pulp inputs; chemicals; energy; labour; overhead; other materials; transportation costs; and by-product revenue. Fibre and energy costs and by product revenue must be broken down into sub categories such as softwood/hardwood logs/chips, electricity, gas, oil, pulping liquor chemicals, etc.
The information must be available at different product groupings for mills (including closed mills) dating back to the year 2000. For example, groupings can include market pulp, broken into kraft or chemical pulp and then Northern Bleached softwood kraft.
Asset information: Mill information; location; assets (e.g., technical age); employment; and pulp and paper line information (production, number, etc).
Time series Capacity: Historical production and capacity by different product groupings for mills and machines (including closed operations), with data going back to the year 2000.
Environmental information: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data for each machine, mill, and firm. Data must be available by type of greenhouse gas, scope (on-site combustion emissions, purchased electricity, raw materials, transportation), and by equipment type.
Competitiveness measure: Bidder-developed index/model that takes into account factors beyond cost (e.g. technical age, production, etc) to assess machine and mill competitiveness. Capability for users to choose factors impacting viability and to see how factors are weighted.
At minimum, monthly news and updates about the pulp and paper industry and market, including company- and mill-level detail.
Data available in metric units of measure and in both USD and CAD currencies.
Capabilities for end-users:
Create and extract custom data compilations in lists or tables through selecting variables (including employment).
Create cost-curves (machine and mill level, sortable by geography (country, region, etc))
Create carbon intensity curves using the environmental information detailed above.
Identify machines, mills, and firms on carbon intensity curves with GHG emissions data.
Filter data by machine, mill, firm, country, region, product, continent, and by line.
Create maps to visualize mills and underlying data.
Export data, graphs, and other information to programs such as Excel, Word, and/or PDF.
Produce user-defined scenario analysis of cost-benchmarking data (measuring the potential impact of internal and external variables on company/mill/region operations) Including at minimum: input costs, duty cost, transportation/delivery costs, and exchange rates.
Service and support:
For the duration of the contract, the Contractor will provide technical information and recommendations for data utilization (i.e. analytical capabilities), upon request and at no additional cost, in addition to monthly ad-hoc analysis about the pulp and paper industry.
The Contractor will provide software training, customer support (phone number, email and contact information) for the software/web application, and ongoing problem solving and IT support.
4. Trade Agreements
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement(s):
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA);
World Trade Organization - Agreement on Gov Procurement (WTO-AGP);
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA);
Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA);
Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA);
Canada-Columbia Free Trade Agreement (CCoFTA);
Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement (CHFTA);
Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement (CPaFTA);
Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA);
Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA).
5. Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business
N/A
6. Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement(s)
N/A
7. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
We intend to deal directly with the supplier mentioned in section 10 below as, it is the only known supplier that meets all the mandatory criteria set out in section 3 above.
Should Canada receive a statement of capabilities from a supplier that contains sufficient information to indicate that it meets all the requirements set forth in this ACAN, a competitive process will be triggered with a technical and financial evaluation methodology of the bids proposed by the potential bidders
8. Exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
The following exception(s) to the Government Contracts Regulations is (are) invoked for this procurement under subsection 6(d) – “only one person is capable of performing the work".
The identified provider, Fisher International, Inc., is the only one able to meet all of the criteria identified in paragraph 3 above.
9. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
The following exclusion(s) and/or limited tendering reasons are invoked under the:
World Trade Agreement - Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP): Article XV, (b)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Article 1016, 2, b)
And analogous exclusions under all applicable Trade Agreements
10. Ownership of Intellectual Property
Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed contract will vest in the Contractor.
11. Contract Period
The contract period will be from contract award to April 2022
12. Estimated Cost
The estimated maximum value of the contract is $300,366 USD
13. Name and Address of the Proposed Contractor
Fisher International, Inc.
50 Water Street
South Norwalk, CT
06854
14. Suppliers’ right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a Statement of Capabilities in writing, preferably by e-mail, to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date and time of this Notice. The Statement of Capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
15. Closing Date
The closing date for a submission of a Statement of Capabilities is November 14, 2018 at 14h00 Pacific Standard Time (PST).
16. Contract Authority
Gerald Baran
Senior Procurement Officer
506 West Burnside Road
Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5
Telephone: (250) 298 2502
Email: g••••••••@••••••.ca
