Montée D'infrastucture De Radio

Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
Motorola Solutions Canada Inc.
8133 Warden Ave.
Markham Ontario
Canada
L6G1B3
Nature of Requirements:

Amendment 001 is raised to correct the Title, Solicitation Number and End User Entity:

Delete Title: Radio & Television Communic. Equip.
Insert Title: Radio Infrastructure

Under Details at Soliciation Number,
Delete: W8474-187461/A
Insert: M7594-192314/A

Under Details at End User Entity,
Delete: Department of National Defence
Insert: Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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 requirements

2.1. PSPC and the RCMP ran a competitive RFP M75941086 for the G7 Summit Radio system and the expansion of this radio system to the rest of the Quebec Region. The successful bidder was Motorola solution. RCMP have a requirement for 100 radio sites in Ontario (O Division).
2.1.1. Roughly 65 of these radio sites will be Trunked with 3 to 6 channels
2.1.2. Roughly 35 of these radio sites will be Conventional with 2 channels.
2.2. The radio sites must use the existing G7 radio core infrastructure equipment deployed in Quebec and be fully provisioned using the two RCMP owned Dynamically System Resilient Motorola ASTRO 25 M3 Cores running revision 7.17 currently located in Quebec.
2.3. Radio equipment must be able to communicate to and from:
2.3.1. existing Motorola M3 Cores from anywhere in Ontario (?O’ Division)
2.3.2. Motorola KMF
2.3.3. Motorola Consoles
2.3.4. Motorola Network Management tools and workstations
2.3.5. Motorola Programming software
2.4. The system must provide seamless roaming from one trunked Motorola radio site to another without the need for user intervention across Ontario and Quebec.
2.5. The Contractor will be responsible for the installation of all radio equipment within equipment shelters provided by the RCMP.
2.6. RCMP have a requirement for 6 consoles.
2.7. RCMP have a requirement for 2 radio voice loggers
2.7.1. Each logger must be able to concurrently record 60 P25 AES256 encrypted radio resources
2.8. Network Requirements
2.8.1. The Contractor will be required to work closely with Shared Services Canada (SSC) who will act as RCMP’s data network manager and provider.
2.8.2. The Contractor must adhere to RCMP and SSC data network IP scheme and architecture.
2.8.3. Implementation of IT Security regarding the data network will be implemented by SSC on behalf of the RCMP.
2.8.4. Electronic access control will be implemented using IT security devices (e.g. firewalls) provided by the RCMP.
2.8.5. Radio Infrastructure Components as defined in the above must be deployed on separate dedicated LANs.
2.8.6. All Radio Infrastructure Components will be protected from the rest of the network with IT security device(s).
2.8.7. Contractor will not be permitted remote access to radio system infrastructure.

3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities (Minimum Essential Requirements)

3.1. Conventional Radio Sites
3.1.1. Must support P25 Conventional Voice
3.1.2. Must support Over the Network Rekeying (OTAR)
3.1.3. Must be connected to the above noted existing Motorola infrastructure as stated above
3.1.4. Each conventional repeater must be able to supply 100W transmit power.
3.2. Trunked Radio Sites
3.2.1. Must support P25 Trunked Voice
3.2.2. Must support Over the Network Rekeying (OTAR)
3.2.3. Must be connected to the above noted existing Motorola infrastructure as stated above
3.2.4. Each trunked repeater must be able to supply 100W transmit power.
3.3. All radio communications for RCMP operations must utilize 12.5 kHz AES 256 Encrypted Project 25 Common Air Interface (CAI) digital modulation.
3.4. Radio system infrastructure must be software upgradable to P25 Phase 2 operation while maintaining phase 1 capability.
3.5. Voice communications must take precedence over data communications.
3.6. There must be no voice truncation.
3.7. The Contractor must ensure the encrypted communication is implemented in an end-to-end manner.
3.8. The encryption and decryption process are solely at the origination and termination points of communication paths which are physically under the control of and/or are physically secured by the RCMP.
3.9. Integration with Existing Radio System
3.10. Interoperability between Ontario and Quebec
3.10.1. The Contractor must ensure the system allows all subscriber units to automatically roam to and from the existing radio sites connected to the existing Dynamically System Resilient Motorola ASTRO 25 M3 Cores running revision 7.17 currently located in Quebec.
3.10.2. Vendor must provide the ability to transmit P25 radio system status messages from any radio site to any console within Quebec and Ontario.
3.10.3. Vendor must provide the ability to transmit GPS location coordinates from any radio site to any GPS mapping client workstation within Quebec and Ontario.
3.10.4. Vendor must maintain this capability for the complete life expectancy of the system.
3.10.5. Radio system infrastructure must support TIA-102.BACC-B Inter-RF Subsystem Interfaces.
3.10.6. Radio system infrastructure must be capable of interconnecting with a different radio system infrastructure which also supports TIA-102.BACC-B Inter-RF Subsystem Interfaces.
3.11. Integration with Existing Consoles
3.11.1. Radio system infrastructure must support dispatch communications initiated by selected group call signaling followed by voice call from the existing Motorola MCC7500 and MCC 7100 console equipment in Quebec to any subscriber unit device in that group within radio network coverage area.
3.11.2. Radio system infrastructure must support subscriber unit device initiated voice group call via Push-To-Talk (PTT) to any other subscriber unit devices on the same group within the entire radio network coverage area and without the need of the console equipment setting up communication patches.
3.12. Integration with existing Key Management Facility (KMF)
3.12.1. The Contractor must ensure full integration of Over-The-Air Re-keying (OTAR) with the existing Motorola Key Management Facility (KMF) currently located in Quebec and subscriber equipment provided by the RCMP.
3.12.2. Proof of radio system integration with a Motorola Key Management Facility must be included in response.
3.13. Contractor must provide a list of public safety customers, complete with contact information, within North America who have deployed proposed radio equipment in their operational live radio system(s).
3.14. Standards
3.14.1. Radio equipment must be based on APCO Project 25 standards as defined by the TIA-102 series of documents.
3.14.2. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS 197 AES: All radio equipment supplied to the RCMP must utilize the encryption standard known as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using the Rijndael algorithm and registered by the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) as FIPS 197. This degree of encryption is specified in the Government Security Policy for the protection of sensitive, unclassified information.
3.14.3. Unless otherwise stated, all references made to the suite of TIA-102 documents refer to the most current published version, including addendums that have been signed-off by the P25 steering committee as of the time of issue of this RFP.
3.14.4. The Contractor must be ISO 9001:2008 certified prior to, and during all periods of the contract.
3.14.5. Internet Protocol (IP) and related protocols must conform to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards.

3.14.6. It is a requirement of this contract that assigned personnel directly involved in the design and provisioning of the system, possess at minimum, a valid Level II (Secret) clearance issued by the Government of Canada.

4. Applicability of the trade agreement(s) to the procurement

4.1. Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)

5. Justification to the Pre-Identified Supplier

5.1. Interoperability between Ontario and Quebec
5.1.1. The Contractor must ensure the system allows all subscriber units to automatically roam to and from the existing radio sites connected to the existing Dynamically System Resilient Motorola ASTRO 25 M3 Cores running revision 7.17 currently located in Quebec.
5.1.2. Vendor must provide the ability to transmit P25 radio system status messages from any radio site to any console within Quebec and Ontario.
5.1.3. Vendor must provide the ability to transmit GPS location coordinates from any radio site to any GPS mapping client workstation within Quebec and Ontario.

6. Government Contracts Regulations Exception(s)

6.1. subsection 6(d) - "only one person is capable of performing the work"

7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons

7.1. In this case the requirement is excluded from the World Trade Organization-Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP) (Article XXIII(1) therein)
7.2. the following exclusion and limited tendering reason are invoked under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) (513 para 1 (b) (ii); therein)
7.3. the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (Article 1018(1) therein

8. Ownership of Intellectual Property

8.1. Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed contract will vest in the Contractor.

9. Period of the proposed contract or delivery date

9.1. The proposed contract is for a period of 4 years, from April 1st 2019 to March 31st 2023.

10. Cost Estimate of the proposed contract

10.1. The estimated value of this contract, including option(s) is $14,000,000 to $19,000,000 CAD.

11. Name and address of the pre-identified supplier
11.1. Motorola Solutions Canada Inc. 8133 Warden Ave. Markham, York, L6G 1B3

12. Suppliers’ right to submit a statement of capabilities

12.1. Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the goods and services describer in the ACAN may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contract 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.

13. Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities

13.1. The closing date and time for accepting statements of capabilities is: Aug 24th 2018 at 2:00 p.m. EST.

14. Inquiries and submission of statements of capabilities

14.1. Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:

Adam Michalski
Supply Team Leader
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Acquisitions Branch
Land and Aerospace Equipment Procurement and Support Sector (LAEPSS)
11 Laurier Street, Portage III, Floor 8C2
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0S5
Telephone: 819-420-0730
Email: a••••••••@••••••••.••.ca

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.