Étiquettes de semence de l’ACIA

Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:

CFIA Seed Tags

39903-170700/A
Gagné, Kathleen
Telephone No. 613-990-9189
E-mail: k••••••••@••••••••.••.ca

Summary

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency requires printing services including printing, production to final format, packaging and distribution of Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) seed tags in pinfeed (continuous) and single versions, delivered to various locations (consignees) throughout Canada on an "if and when" required basis.

CFIA anticipates requiring one (1) production and distribution requirement annually, but may also require smaller production and distribution requirements during the period of the Contract and the option periods.

The period of the Contract is for two (2) years from date of award inclusive.

The Contractor grants to Canada the irrevocable option to extend the term of the Contract by up to three (3) additional one (1) year period(s) under the same conditions. The Contractor agrees that, during the extended period of the Contract, it will be paid in accordance with the applicable provisions as set out in the Basis of Payment.

Delivery Dates: As specified in individual work requests.

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.

Comprehensive Land Claim Agreements (CLCAs) are not applicable to this procurement.

EVALUATION PROCEDURES AND BASIS OF SELECTION

Technical Evaluation

To meet the requirement described herein, the experience of the Bidder must be work for which the Contractor was under contract to clients. In the case of a joint venture, the combined experience of the parties forming the joint venture will be considered in the evaluation of the experience of the Bidder.

Listing experience without providing any supporting data to describe where and how such experience was obtained will result in the experience not being included for evaluation purposes

Mandatory Technical Criteria

Proposals submitted by bidders must meet all the mandatory technical criteria of the Request for Proposal (RFP). No further consideration will be given to proposals not meeting all of the mandatory criteria.

During the evaluation no corporate experience gained through internal clients will be accepted or reviewed.

Failure by the Bidder to provide any of the required information in the proposal will be considered as not meeting the mandatory criterion.

The following definitions apply for the purposes of the Mandatory Criteria:

"External client(s)" means clients exterior to the Bidder's own legal entity (or joint venture partnership) and excludes the parent, subsidiaries or other affiliates of the Bidder.

"Internal client(s)" means clients within the Bidder's own legal entity (or joint venture partnership) and includes the parent, subsidiaries and other affiliates of the Bidder.

"Tag" and/or "Tags" means a printed form, on thick paper or card stock, to be attached to something for the purpose of identification or to give other information. It does not include business cards, calling cards, adhesive labels, or multipart business forms.

"Thick paper or card stock" means a paper stock that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, and with a minimum thickness of 7pt (.007 caliper).

M.1 CORPORATE EXPERIENCE AND CAPABILITY - SUPPLY CHAIN

M.1.1 The Bidder must demonstrate that it has been contractually bound with two (2) different external clients to print and produce tags*. Each of the two (2) contracts must have been started or completed after October 31, 2011.

*Each contract could have been for the supply of a single tag design or multiple tag designs.

M.1.1.a - M.1.1.e: For each of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1, the Bidder must provide:

M.1.1.a The Client contact information;
M.1.1.b The Contract start date or end date;
M.1.1.c The number of different tag designs produced under the Contract;
M.1.1.d A description of the tag(s) indicating the caliper and type of paper/card stock used to produce the tags.
M.1.1.e A description of the printing requirements for each tag supplied under the contract.

M.1.2 At least one (1) of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1 must include or must have included a requirement for the Bidder to provide printing and production of the tags* on an "as and when" required basis.

M.1.2.a For each of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1, the Bidder must provide a detailed description of the client’s ordering and supply requirements to demonstrate any requirement to provide printing and production of tags on an "as and when" required basis.

M.1.3 At least one (1) of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1 must be or must have been for a contract period of one (1) year or more.

M.1.3.a For each of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1, the Bidder must provide the period of the Contract.

M.1.4 At least one (1) of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1 must be or must have been for the supply of a minimum quantity of 500,000 tags annually.

M.1.4.a For each of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1, the Bidder must provide the total quantity of all of the tags supplied annually under the contract.

M.1.5 At least one (1) of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1. must be or must have been for the supply tags with speciality die-cutting/slots*.

*Holes for pinfeeding and/or perforations are not considered specialty die-cutting/slots for the purposes of this mandatory criterion.

M.1.5.a For each of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1, the Bidder must provide a description of the finishing requirements of the tag(s) including any specialty die-cutting/slots.

M.1.6 At least one (1) of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1. must be or must have been for the supply tags designed for outdoor use.

M.1.6.a For each of the two (2) contracts, the Bidder must provide a description of the final usage (indoor/outdoor) of the tag(s).

M.1.7 For each of the two (2) contracts described for M.1.1, the Bidder must provide a copy of the invoice or of one (1) of the invoices presented to the Client for the completed tags.

M.2 CORPORATE EXPERIENCE AND CAPABILITY - CONTINUOUS FORMAT FORMS PRODUCTION

M.2.1 The Bidder must demonstrate that it has been contractually bound with one (1) external client to print and produce to final format a minimum of 100,000 continuous/pinfeed format tags. The Contract must have been started or completed after October 31, 2011.

For the contract described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide:

M.2.1.a The Client contact information;
M.2.1.b The Contract start date or end date;
M.2.1.c A description of the tag(s) indicating the caliper and type of paper/card stock used to produce the tags.
M.2.1.d A description of the printing requirements for each tag supplied under the contract.

M.2.2 The continuous-pinfeed format tags must be or must have been constructed with pinfeed holes on two (2) edges.

M.2.2.a For the contract described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide a description of the pinfeed hole requirements of the tag.

M.2.3 The continuous-pinfeed format tags must be or must have been constructed with a perforation between tags for separation.

M.2.3.a For the contract described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide a description of the perforation requirements of the tag.

M.2.4 The Contract must be or must have been for the printing and production of a minimum of 100,000 continuous-pinfeed format tags in a single production run.

M.2.4.a For the contract described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide the total quantity of the tags printed and produced in a single production run.

M.2.5 The continuous-pinfeed format tags must be or must have been fan folded and boxed or placed on rolls in batches of 1,000 or more tags per package or per roll.

M.2.5.a For the contract described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide the total quantity of the continuous-pinfeed format tags per box or roll.

M.2.6 For the contract described for M.2 the Bidder must provide a copy of the invoice or of one (1) of the invoices presented to the Client for the completed tags.

Point Rated Technical Criteria

Only those proposals which first meet the Mandatory Requirements will be considered in the second stage of the evaluation, the Technical Evaluation.

Bidders are instructed to address each requirement in sufficient depth to permit a complete analysis and assessment by the Evaluation Team. Simply repeating the statement contained in the bid solicitation is not sufficient.

The point rated technical evaluation criteria are included in Annex "D" of the Request for Proposal.

Financial Evaluation

The price of the bid will be evaluated in Canadian dollars, all applicable taxes excluded; FOB destination, Canadian customs duties and excise taxes included.

The Financial Evaluation will be based on the Total Evaluated Price of the Annex "B" Basis of Payment - Pricing Schedule / Financial Proposal.

Basis of Selection

4.2.1 To be declared responsive, a bid must:

(a) comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; and
(b) meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and
(c) obtain the required minimum of 75 percent overall of the points for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating. The rating is performed on a scale of 48 points.

Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract.

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.