Objective
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has a requirement for OEM Toners to be supplied and delivered to employees of the Agency located in offices across Canada on an “as and when requested” basis in accordance with the Statement of Work attached herein as Annex A and Annex C: Requirements for CRA Synergy Solution.
It is the CRA’s intention to award one Contract to fulfill the requirement. The period of the contract will be for two (2) years with three (3) one-year options to extend the period.
The Agency will include a minimum spend commitment of $250,000.00 Canadian (all applicable taxes included) over the entire period of the resulting contract, which includes any exercised option periods.
CONTRACTOR SELECTION METHODOLOGY
The evaluation of proposals will be performed as follows:
Step 1 – Evaluation against Mandatory Criteria
Step 2 – Evaluation of Financial Proposals
Step 3 – Basis of Selection
A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the highest bid evaluation price score will be considered to be the highest ranked responsive bid.
Step 4 – Conditions Precedent to Contract Award
Step 5 – Proof of Synergy (Ariba) Compliance
Step 6 – Contract Entry
The CRA reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
RFP CLOSING DATE:
Bids must be received on or before August 5th, 2020 no later than 11:59 p.m EDT, as follows:
The proposal MUST be sent by fax or using an electronic/online fax service to 418-562-3058.
Bidders should keep a copy of their fax transmission report for record keeping purposes.
ONLY ELECTRONIC BIDS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the delivery of a physical (paper) proposal is not considered to be practical and therefore physical proposals will not be accepted.
Contracting Authority
All enquiries regarding this Request for Proposal must be directed in WRITING (see email address below) to:
Katherine Hutton
Senior Supply/Business Analyst
Canada Revenue Agency
Administration Directorate
Contracting Division
250 Albert St., 8th Floor
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0L5
E-mail: K••••••••@•••••••.••.ca
Please refer to the solicitation documents for further information and instructions regarding this opportunity.
