(a) Shared Services Canada (SSC) is a Government of Canada (GC) department entrusted with the transformation and ongoing management of the IT Infrastructure for 43 departments within the GC. This specification will descripted the desired capabilities for infrastructure components to support SSC’s fire wall infrastructure.
The Security Operations team is part of SSC and has a mandate to perform in-service support for several enterprise class security systems applications, including the backend management systems of these applications. Currently, these applications reside within more than 43 department networks. However, as part of the SSC initiative, these systems will gradually shift to a consolidated, Government wide adoption.
The primary purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to replace an end-of-life and end-of-support (as of March 31, 2016) full packet capture and security analysis solution. The entire solution requires replacement. The core of the contract consists of the goods and services required to address this requirement. (b) It is intended to result in the award of a contract for one (1) year plus three (3) one year options.
(c) On May 28, 2012, the Government of Canada announced on the Government Electronic Tendering Service that it had invoked the National Security Exception under the trade agreements in respect of procurements related to email, networks and data centres for Shared Services Canada. As a result, this requirement is subject to the National Security Exception.
