The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) intends to enter into a contract with a single contractor for the Virtual Management Training Program on an as-and-when-requested basis.The contract will contain irrevocable options to extend the term of the Contract by up to two (2) 3-month periods under the same conditions.The proposed period of contract shall be from contract award to December 31, 2023.A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the highest combined rating of technical merit and price will be recommended for award of a contract.Proposal documents and supporting information must be submitted in either English or French.Conditional Set-Aside Under the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous BusinessThis procurement may be conditionally set aside under the federal government Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business.In order to be considered for the set-aside, the Bidder must certify that it qualifies as an Indigenous business as defined under PSIB and that it will comply with all requirements of PSIB. If bids from two (2) or more Indigenous businesses are compliant with the terms of the Request for Proposal, the contracting authority will limit the competition to those Indigenous businesses and will not consider bids from any non-Indigenous businesses that may have been submitted.For more information on Indigenous business requirements of the Set-aside Program for Indigenous Business, refer to Eligibility for Indigenous procurement set aside and Procurement information for Indigenous business ownersQuestions must be directed in writing to the contracting authority via email: h••••••••@•••••••.••.caBids must be submitted by using the Connect service provided by the Canada Post Corporation. When responding, the proposal MUST be delivered 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.The CRA reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.The work location will be remote. Trainings will take place virtually.There are NO security requirements associated with this requirementThis bid solicitation 1000411342 cancels and supersedes previous bid solicitation number 1000379688 dated January 06, 2022 with a closing of January 28, 2022 02:00 PM EST. The main changes in the revised solicitation 1000411342 are found at:GeneralOpen tender on buyandsell.gc.ca as opposed to using Learning Services Supply Arrangement.Annex A: Statement of work:Additional requirement of a 5th session to follow up with participants;Additional requirement of a producer/technician; andAn estimated increase of 400 participants, to a total of 1800 from 1400 participants.Annex B: Basis of PaymentFirm All-Inclusive Price per participant per virtual management training program.Evaluation CriteriaAdditional point-rated criterion R3
