Trade Agreement: NONE
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: N/A - P&A/LOI Only
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
ENGLISH:
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), also known as, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), is issuing a Notice of Proposed Procurement on behalf of the Department of National Defence (DND) to seek Industry feedback on proven solutions (e.g., Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications already in use for similar purposes) which could support Canada in satisfying the requirements of a Search and Rescue (SAR) Mission coordination and logging solution.
The legacy command and control and logging software used to coordinate the response to SAR incidents is obsolete and no longer supportable. It must be replaced with a modernized system to avoid lapses in Canada’s ability to provide critical lifesaving SAR services.
The users of the SAR Mission Coordination application will primarily be:
- SAR mission coordinators: Up to eight users located at each of five Rescue Coordination Centres across Canada: Trenton, ON; Victoria, BC; Halifax, NS; Quebec City, QC; and St. John’s, NL. Note that these centres have alternate sites from which users could operate instead;
- SAR satellite system support: Up to five users located at the Canadian Mission Control Centre in Trenton, ON;
- Canadian Coast Guard College: Up to 25 users on a sporadic basis used to train new SMCs;
- In-Service Support and administration: Up to ten users at up to two locations (DND and Canadian Coast Guard) conducting long-term in-service support, including application administration, monitoring, and developing reports;
- Ad-hoc external stakeholders: As needed, external stakeholders outside of those listed above who may need occasional access to individual cases, for monitoring, and/or reporting purposes.
Canada desires for the solution to allow multiple SMCs from a centre to each work on multiple cases simultaneously within their centre and access other rescue centre’s cases as well. Interaction between centres is normally carried out over a common Search and Rescue Network infrastructure.
This Request for Information (RFI) does not constitute a commitment by the Government of Canada.
The Government of Canada does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice or otherwise pay for the information solicited.
ENQUIRIES:
Because this is not a bid solicitation, Canada will not necessarily respond to enquiries in writing or by circulating answers to all potential suppliers. However, respondents with questions regarding this RFI may direct their enquiries to:
Contracting Authority: Evonne Dale
E-mail Address: E••••••••@••••••••.••.ca
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.
