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Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: Yes
Nature of Requirements:

RCMP Canadian Firearms Program Variable Printing and Supply Chain

M7594-191241/B
Werk(cw), Janet
Telephone No.343-549-3086
j••••••••@••••••••.••.ca

This requirement has a security requirement

Summary
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) requires complete Variable printing and print supply chain services as specified in the Annex ?A? Statement of Work.
These services include Variable Printing Services and Printing, Warehousing, Inventory Management and Distribution Services.
The Contract is in effect for a period a period of three years (3) from award of contract inclusively.
The irrevocable option to extend the term of the Contract by up to three (3) additional one (1) year periods under the same conditions.

There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses. For more information on personnel and organization security screening or security clauses, Bidders should refer to the Contract Security Program of Public Works and Government Services Canada (http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/introduction-eng…) website.

The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.
This procurement is subject to the Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement(s)
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

This bid solicitation allows bidders to use the epost Connect service provided by Canada Post Corporation to transmit their bid electronically. Bidders must refer to Part 2 entitled Bidder Instructions, and Part 3 entitled Bid Preparation Instructions, of the bid solicitation.

The Federal Contractors Program (FCP) for employment equity applies to this procurement; refer to Part 5 Certifications and Additional Information, Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses and the annex titled Federal Contractors Program for Employment Equity Certification.

The Phased Bid Compliance Process applies to this requirement.

4.2 Basis of Selection- Lowest price per point
1. To be declared responsive, a bid must:
a. comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation;
b. meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and
c. obtain the required minimum of points per rated requirement criteria (R.1 to R.8) for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating.
Rated requirement Maximum Number of point Minimum pass number of points
R.1 155 116
R.2 108 81
R.3 392 294
R.4 540 405
R.5 40 30
R.6 76 57
R.7 48 36
R.8 16 12

2. Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. Neither the responsive bid that receives the highest number of points nor the one that proposed the lowest price will necessarily be accepted. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price per point will be recommended for award of a contract.

M.1 BIDDER’S CORPORATE CAPABILITY

To demonstrate that the Bidder has the corporate capability to provide the services outlined in the Statement of Work, the Bidder must provide a detailed description of one (1) contract up to three (3) contracts for which the Bidder was under contract to one (1) or more external clients to provide the complete supply chain process of production, warehousing, inventory control, order processing and order fulfilment, distribution, tracking and reporting activities as specified in the Annex ?A? Statement of Work.
The Contract or contracts must have been started or completed since January 01, 2014.

The Bidder must provide a detailed listing of the services provided under the contract or contracts.

The description of the contract or contracts and the listing of the services provided by the Bidder, when combined, must demonstrate that the Bidder was under contract to provide all of the following services to the Client(s):

1. Reception and Warehousing of varied printed products (consisting of a minimum of 100 different items) such as multi-part forms, publications, booklets, etc., as well as any other related inventory items, including non-paper promotional items (such as maps, binders, magnets, DVDs, USBs, trigger locks, etc.);
2. Inventory management;
3. On-line ordering site;
4. Order reception;
5. Order fulfillment;
6. Distribution using couriers or other methods of transport;
7. Large distribution mailing and handling using Canada Post mail system (40,000 envelopes monthly);
8. Order tracking;
9. Use of a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and/or Managed Secure File Transfer (MSFT);
10. Printing services for static information (including multi-part forms; products such as single sheet products, multi-colour foldout brochures and publications and envelopes;
11. Variable Printing Services with a minimum of data sets of 500,000 records annually;
12. Inventory Management System.

M.2 BIDDER’S INTERNET ORDERING SYSTEM

The Bidder must provide a description of the Bidder’s current internet ordering system. The description must demonstrate how the Bidder’s existing internet ordering system will provide all of the following (a - h) to meet the requirements of the Annex ?A? Statement of Work.

M.3 FACILITY LOCATION (PB)

The Bidder must provide the following information indicating where the printing and warehousing functions for printed matter are carried out. For each functions (a - e listed below), the Bidder must indicate which are completed by sub-contractors and which are completed in the Bidder’s facility(ies). For each facility(ies), the Bidder must indicate the facility name(s), the facility location(s), the relationship to the Bidder and the PWGSC Contract Industrial Security Division’s (CISD) level and number.

M.4 TEAM PRINCIPLE REPRESENTATIVES who is responsible for:
1. the Variable print aspects of the contract;
2. the Supply Chain/warehousing and inventory aspect of the contract;
3. the implementation and management of the ordering site;
4. the Primary account manager representative for the day to day liaison between the PSPC Contracting authority and the RCMP Project Authority as well as the company team.

The Bidder must provide a detailed description of the work experience of the four (4) primary team members: the Project Manager/Account Representatives and the Team principals will be managing the printing, variable printing, warehousing of printed matter, order reception and fulfillment services similar to those outlined in the Annex ?A? Statement of Work. The detailed description must demonstrate how the these four (4) primary individuals worked on other contracts and gain experience providing similar services as described in the Annex ?A? Statement of Work.

The Bidder must provide a detailed description of other contract(s) for other clients aside from the RCMP for which these four (4) primary team members had these roles and responsibilities similar to the RCMP CFP requirement. The four (4) primary team members are:

1. the variable print aspects of the Contract;
2. the supply Chain/warehousing and inventory aspect of the contract;
3. the implementation and management of the ordering site;
4. the primary Project Manager / Client Account Representative who will be the day to day representative of the Contractor and the RCMP Project Authority and the PWGSC Contracting Authority.

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.