Logiciel SysCAD Plant Simulation

Trade Agreement: NAFTA / CFTA / FTAs with Peru / Colombia / Panama / Korea
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
KWA Kenwalt Australia Pty Ltd
KWA Kenwalt Australia P/L
6 Falcon Ave
Australia
6018
Nature of Requirements:

SysCAD Plant Simulation Software

31184-178946/A
Clark, Trevor
Telephone No. - (819) 420-6324
Email: t••••••••@••••••••.••.ca

REQUIREMENT:

The Energy, Mining and Environment (EME) portfolio of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has a requirement for the provision of goods as specified under "Background" below. The purpose of this Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) is to signal the government's intention to award a contract for these goods to KWA Kenwalt Australia Pty Ltd, the developer of the SysCAD Plant Simulation software. Before awarding a contract, however, the government would like to provide other suppliers with the opportunity to demonstrate that they are capable of satisfying the requirements set out in this Notice, by submitting a statement of capabilities during the 15 calendar day posting period.

If other potential suppliers submit a statement of capabilities during the 15 calendar day posting period that meet the requirements set out in the ACAN, the government will proceed to a full tendering process on either the government's electronic tendering service or through traditional means, in order to award the contract.

If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a statement of capabilities meeting the requirements set out in the ACAN, a contract will be awarded to the pre-selected supplier.

BACKGROUND:

The Energy, Mining and Environment portfolio of the NRC is seeking to procure SysCAD software to further develop its process modeling capabilities for the hard-rock mining sector.

Public Works and Government Services Canada, on behalf of its Client, the National Research Council of Canada, intends to enter into a sole source contract with KWA Kenwalt Australia Pty Ltd, the developer of SysCAD for the purpose of procurement of the following:

Initial Requirement

1. Full Stand-Alone Steady State and Dynamic Transfer License with Energy Balance Add-On
2. 19 months of Software Upgrade and Maintenance
3. 5 day (40 hours) training course for Dynamic Transfer, including supply of temporary full licenses to all attendees

MINIMUM ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that it meets all of the mandatory requirements in Annex A.

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PRE-SELECTED SUPPLIER

The reasons for single tendering are described in Annex A.

Section 6 of the Government Contract Regulations is being invoked in this procurement as only one person or firm is capable of performing the contract.

CFTA, Article 513, paragraph 1.(b) and 1.(c) are applicable on the basis of limited tendering due to compatibility with existing products, to recognize exclusive rights, such as exclusive licenses, copyright and patent rights, or to maintain specialized products that must be maintained by the manufacturer or its representative, and when there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no alternative or substitute exists.

Articles 1016.2(b) and 1016.2(d) of NAFTA are applicable on the basis of limited tendering due to reasons where, for works of art, or for reasons connected with the protection of patents, copyrights or other exclusive rights, or proprietary information or where there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists, for additional deliveries by the original supplier that are intended either as replacement parts or continuing services for existing supplies, services or installations, or as the extension of existing supplies, services or installations, where a change of supplier would compel the entity to procure equipment or services not meeting requirements of inter changeability with already existing equipment or services, including software to the extent that the initial procurement of the software was covered by this Chapter.

PERIOD OF CONTRACT

The proposed contract is for the purchase of a single SysCAD Stand-Alone Steady State and Dynamic Transfer License with Energy Balance Add-On and associated maintenance and support services for a period of 19 months from date of Contract Award.

ANNEX A

The reasons for sole source procurement of the required metallurgical plant simulation software are listed below. The Energy, Mining and Environment (EME) portfolio of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) requires the solution to be compliant with the following functionalities:

ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

General
M1 The software solution must be "commercial-off-the-shelf", meaning that each component of software is commercially available and requires no further research and development and is part of an existing product line with a field-proven operational history (that is, it has not simply been tested in a laboratory or experimental environment).

M2 The software solution must natively operate in a Microsoft Windows environment (Windows 7 or newer). The software must also function with Mac OS X (Mavericks or newer) where Parallels Desktop (Version 12 or newer) (http://www.parallels.com) or similar is installed with a Windows virtual machine.

M3 The software solution license must be provided on a USB License Key Dongle for easy license transfer between multiple instances of the software solution installed on multiple machines.

M4 The software solution must have a runtime licensing option.

M5 The software solution solver must support and utilize multi-core computing functionality (quad-core processor or better) to enable parallel processing.

M6 The software solution must have functionality to natively import data to and export data from Microsoft Excel files.

M7 The software solution must have the functionality to simulate metallurgical plants and ancillary utilities and have an extensive library of metallurgical unit operations models.

M8 The vendor must provide an extensive on-line documentation, including detailed description of models employed, and video tutorials with detailed examples to support training, model development and troubleshooting.

M9 The software solution must be accompanied by fully functional demo example projects, including, but not limited to gold leaching circuit, hydrometallurgical Ni/Cu flowsheet, Cu smelting (flash furnace, FEM blast furnace) examples, lithium carbonate acid leach, SX and IX circuits, pressure leach (with preheaters and flash train), absorption tower, evaporator flash train including MVR example, counter-current decantation train, power plant, water treatment plant, desalination plant, sorting facility. Dynamic demonstration examples should include dynamic tank with a reaction and controls, material storage, shipping and production planning model, continuous materials handling coupled with a process area operating at batch.

M10 The software solution must have a graphical representation of a process flow diagram. The graphical representation of a process must display unit operations using the industry accepted symbols and formats and should not require any additional process flowsheet drafting. The user must have the capability to insert flowsheet border and name process flowsheet areas.

M11 The software solution must have a native functionality to manage and edit existing unit operation symbols as well as ability to import flowsheets and new graphics symbols in the *.DFX format created using commercial Computer-aided design (CAD) packages (e.g. AutoCAD, MicroStation).

M12 The software solution must have native functionality to "Copy and Paste" parts of flow graphical flowsheet model. The "Copy and Paste" operation must be able to generate new model tags to avoid conflicts between the original and the pasted copy.

M13 The software solution must have the functionality to natively import species data from the HSC Chemistry Thermodynamic Database, developed by Outotec (http://www.hsc-chemistry.com/)

M14 The software solution must have functionality to generate simulation reports in Microsoft Excel 10 or newer using specified key words or value tag format on any number of Excel sheets, any number of times and locations.

M15 The software solution must have a command script function to batch run multiple SysCAD simulations using a set of model conditions specified in Microsoft Excel files and generate corresponding reports in Microsoft Excel.

M16 The software solution must have a general purpose process controller that can be used to simulate sophisticated plant control functions and perform user defined calculations using a programing syntax similar to VBA. The software solution must have the functionality to run custom (used-defined) sub-routines, execute user-defined functions that include, but are not limited to, loops, comparison/logic operations, counters, etc. using process variables within any unit or stream. The controller code file must be a stand-alone text file that can be created and edited using Notepad or similar text editor. The user must have an ability to add access window tab for the custom controller that displays input parameters and calculation results.

M17 The software solution must have a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller that can be used in combination with a transmitter linked to an actuator to simulate process controls including interlocks, sequencing operations and test different control strategies.

M18 The software solution must have native functionality to display and plot selected process variables and key performance indicators (e.g. set points convergence) in real-time from any flowsheet in the project in both steady-state and dynamic modes.

M19 The software solution must use the International Association for Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) Industrial Formulation (IAPWS-IF97) for calculating thermodynamic properties of water and steam. See IAPWS website for additional information (www.iapws.org).

M20 The software solution must use the IAPWS 2008 formulation for composition and calculation of thermophysical properties of seawater and concentrated brines as described in "Release on the IAPWS Formulation 2008 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Seawater". See IAPWS website for additional information (www.iapws.org).

M21 The software solution must have Gibbs free energy minimization functionality for calculating product stream composition.

M22 The software solution must have the capability to define solubility for chemical species as functions of temperature or mass fraction.

M23 The software solution must have the capability to automatically apply phase change and Vapor-Liquid Equilibria (VLE) transformations to model components based on defined thermophysical data.

M24 The software solution must have the capability to automatically calculate boiling point elevation (BPE) for aqueous solutions based on van’t Hoff’s constants.

M25 The software solution must have the capability to automatically calculate the extent of reactions when simulating Solvent Extraction unit operation based on user-defined equilibrium isotherm according to the McCabe-Thiele method.

M26 The software solution must utilize text files to define chemical reactions, their extent and sequence using either built-in reaction editor or any text editor such as Notepad or equivalent.

M27 The software solution must have the capability to "drag-and-drop" one reaction file to another when using the default reaction editor.

M28 The software solution must have the capability to designate reaction species as source only, recycle only or source and recycle when modeling reaction sequences.

M29 The software solution must have the capability of automatically performing acidity (pH) calculations for aqueous streams based on default or user-defined acid-base dissociation constants (including multiprotic acids/bases, e.g. H2SO4, H3PO4, H2CO3, Ca(OH)2).

M30 The software solution must have the capability of automatically calculating and displaying process water quality parameters, such as alkalinity, free mineral acidity, hardness (total, Ca, Mg), total dissolved solids, total carbon, total organic carbon, chemical oxygen demand.

M31 The software solution must have the capability to simulate plants downtime due to minor and major equipment maintenance using probabilistic models with user-defined time constants.

M32 The software solution must have the capability to add random disturbances to a dynamic model using a set of probability density functions with user-defined coefficients.

M33 The software solution must have the capability to specify changes in model variables with time such as seasonal climate data etc.

M34 The software solution must have the ability to collect, process and output statistical information when running in a dynamic mode, including bivariate statistics, flow statistics, control variables statistics (e.g. tank levels, etc.)

M35 The software solution must be expandable to include OPC (OLE for Process Control) functionality for connectivity with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Distributed Control Systems (DCSs).

CLOSING DATE AND TIME FOR WRITTEN SUPPLIER RESPONSES CHALLENGING THIS REQUIREMENT IS 14:00 p.m. EST, October 26, 2017.

You are hereby notified that the Government intends to solicit a bid and negotiate with one firm only as identified above.

If you wish to submit a written response showing that you are capable of meeting this requirement, it must be done not later than the specified closing date and time. The file number, contracting officer's name, and the closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters on the covering page. As it is intended to proceed in a timely manner, responses received after the closing date will not be considered.

Responses received on or before the closing date will be considered solely for the purpose of deciding whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Information provided will be used by the Crown for technical evaluation purposes only and is not to be construed as a competitive solicitation. Your written response must provide sufficient evidence (e.g. specifications, technical data, drawings, or any other proof) that clearly demonstrates that your product or service is capable of fulfilling this requirement.

Suppliers that have submitted a response will be notified in writing of PWGSC's decision to continue with the non-competitive procurement or compete the requirement.

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting officer identified above.

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen (15) calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a Statement of Capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contracting authority may then proceed with the award. However, should a Statement of Capabilities be found to meet the requirements set out in the ACAN, then the contracting authority will proceed to a full tendering process.

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, 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.

The PWGSC file number, the contracting officer's name and the closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile transmission, on the covering page.

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.