Trade Agreement: NONE
Tendering Procedures:
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: N/A - P&A/LOI Only
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
**NOTICE TO INDUSTRY**
The RFI Industry Workshop date has been modified from July 5,
2012 to July 6, 2012 as part of amendment number 003.
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Email Transformation Initiative - Request for Information
Further to the Industry Day Notice published under
2B0KB-123327/A, this is a Request for Information (RFI)
pertaining to the Email Transformation Initiative (ETI), which
is an initiative of Shared Services Canada (SSC) to deliver a
new Email Solution for SSC and the departments and agencies that
it provides information technology (IT) services for, herein,
referred to as SSC's "Partners". SSC will also offer the new
service to other Government of Canada (GC) organizations on an
optional basis.
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and SSC are
seeking feedback from industry on the following subject matter:
(i) The ability to meet the anticipated mandatory requirements
provided in Part III of this RFI;
(ii) The questions provided in Part IV of this RFI;
(iii) Industry's recommendations for a low risk approach that
could be considered by SSC to deliver a consolidated email
service to the GC that would meet the business, timeline, and
cost reduction outcomes presented throughout this document, and
(iv) The ability to meet anticipated (draft) evaluation criteria
(mandatory and rated) in Annex D.
The GC intends to use feedback from (i), (ii) and (iii) to
solidify its procurement approach and help determine the "way
forward" for how the new Email Solution should be acquired,
delivered, and managed, and feedback from (iv) to help determine
the mandatory and rated evaluation criteria for organizations to
respond to at the next stage of the procurement process, in
which Canada will identify a subset of successful respondents
for subsequent stages in the procurement process.
RFI Industry Workshop:
Canada will host a full-day session to familiarize the
Respondents with the current state of SSC's email systems, as
well as the scope, requirements and technical challenges for the
new Email Solution, so that Respondents can provide more detail
in their responses to the RFI that will allow Canada to make
more educated decisions in its email transformation strategy and
requirements going forward.
The session is scheduled to take place on July 6, 2012 in the
National Capital Region, with videoconferencing to regional
locations. A panel of several Government of Canada
representatives will present information and answer questions
from industry.
The registration form is provided in Annex J and is to be
submitted no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT on June 27th, 2012.
Potential RFI One-on-One meetings:
Following the close of the RFI, at Canada's discretion, meetings
may be held with Respondents to seek further clarification or
elaboration on their RFI response.
CSEC Security Briefing:
Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), as part of
Industry Day held on June 12, 2012, presented an unclassified
cyber-security and supply threats briefing to companies who were
in attendance.
CSEC has offered to provide organizations interested in
participating in subsequent phases of the ETI procurement with a
more sensitive supply threats briefing. One or more briefings
will be carried out as part of the June to July 2012 Industry
Engagement phase.
All individuals, from each Organization, that plan to attend the
supply threats briefings, must sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement
(NDA). Industry is advised that the subject NDA is not
negotiable and must be signed by an executive company
representative that has the authority to agree to the terms and
conditions of the NDA.
The registration form and NDA are provided in Annexes H and I
and are to be submitted no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT on June
27th, 2012.
National Security Exception:
The procurement related to this initiative is subject to
National Security Exception and is, therefore, excluded from all
of the obligations of the trade agreements.
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.
