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 the requirement
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) has a requirement for informatics professional services to assist in the installation and development of a Market Conduct Profile using the software WebCIMS 7. The development of the Market Conduct Profile will also include an integration with FCAC’s document management system (e-DOCS) and its current case management database, as well as a number of data migration and/or upload. .
SCOPE OF WORK / DELIVERABLES
FCAC requires the services of dedicated intermediate programmer/analysts and technical writers. The proposed resources will be required to perform, at a minimum, the following tasks:
Assist FCAC during the installation of WebCIMS 7 on its servers and the creation of development, staging and production environments.
Prepare technical documents, as requested by FCAC. These may include, but are not limited to, design, technical specifications, system workflows, data mapping and user guide documents.
Provide recommendations on user interface and usability, as appropriate, and provide user interface prototypes for approval by FCAC.
Configure WebCIMS 7 in accordance to FCAC’s requirements defined in the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and other supporting material.
Provide all user interfaces in both English and French.
Integrate WebCIMS 7 with FCAC’s document management software (i.e. RDIMS/e-Docs) and case management database, as per defined requirements.
Perform unit testing prior to any other testing phases.
Resolve all errors, bugs and discrepancies from set requirements in the installation and development of WebCIMS 7, discovered during the testing phases of its development.
Resolve all errors, bugs and discrepancies from set requirements in the integration of WebCIMS 7 and RDIMS/e-Docs as well as WebCIMS 7 and WebCIMS 5, discovered during the testing phases of its development.
Assist FCAC during the deployment of configurations, integrations, errors, bugs and discrepancies resolution, and other relevant application files, in the development, staging and production environments.
Map the data contained in FCAC’s Contact Database to WebCIMS 7 database and perform the data migration between the two applications.
Perform the upload of data contained in identified spreadsheets.
3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities (Minimum Essential Requirements)
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that the proposed resources meet the following requirements:
Programmer/analysts – Mandatory qualifications:
A minimum of 5 years of experience configuring and code writing for WebCIMS 5;
A minimum of 3 years of experience configuring and code writing for WebCIMS 7;
A minimum of 4 years of development experience with Microsoft SQL 2014 and later;
A minimum of 5 years of development experience with Classic ASP and .Net;
Experience integrating applications with OpenText eDOCS (RDIMS);
Experience mapping and migrating/converting data;
Experience with Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10;
Valid security clearance at the reliability level.
Technical writers – Mandatory qualifications:
A minimum of 5 years of experience writing help text, user manuals and technical documentation about software applications;
Experience writing help text, user manuals and technical documentation about WebCIMS 7
Valid security clearance at the reliability level.
4. Applicability of the trade agreement(s) to the procurement
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreements:
Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA)
Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement
Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA)
Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement
5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
A. Net Solutions Inc. is the exclusive owner and developer of Webcims 7 and its intellectual property. It does not authorize its client to modify the software unless authorized by them in writing.
FCAC requires development services to configure and integrate WebCIMS 7 with other applications to implement a Market Conduct Profile.
6. Exception(s)
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".
7. Ownership of Intellectual Property
FCAC has determined that any intellectual property rights arising from the performance of the Work under the resulting contract will belong to Canada, for the following reason and as set out in the Policy on Title to Intellectual Property Arising Under Crown Procurement Contracts:
“Where the Foreground IP consists of material subject to copyright, with the exception of computer software and all documentation pertaining to that software”.
All information and documents made available to the contractor during the course of this contract are deemed proprietary, as is all documentation produced by the contractor during the contract.
8. Period of the proposed contract or delivery date
The Work is to be performed from the date of contract award until March 31, 2019.
9. Cost estimate of the proposed contract
The estimated value of the contract, including option(s), is $279,850.00 (GST/HST extra).
10. Name and address of the pre-identified supplier
A.Net Solutions Inc.
196A Papineau Street
Gatineau, QC
J8X 1W2
11. Suppliers' right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the goods, services or construction services described in the ACAN may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
12. Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities
The closing date and time for accepting statements of capabilities is May 18, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
13. Inquiries and submission of statements of capabilities
Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:
Stéphane Dupel
Contracting Officer
Corporate Services
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
427 Laurier Ave. West, Suite 600, Ottawa, ON K1R 1B9
Tel: 613-948-7958
Fax: 613-941-1436
E-Mail: F••••••••@••••••••.••.ca
