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.
NRCan intends to conduct a feasibility "proof of concept" pilot with Clarivate Analytics to assess if their web-based bibliometrics application called "Web of Science" & their analytical platform called "InCites" are potentially beneficial to NRCan's science and research community. Clarivate’s products are site-licenses access subscriptions that enable researchers and managers to browse and report on publication activity for peer-reviewed research. They also enable benchmarking with other organizations that have also published in peer review reputable journals.
NRCan is defining new approaches on how it manages its science. In order to do this, NRCan requires access to analytical tools to do customized searches, benchmarking and foresighting analysis from a reputable source of information in regards to the peer review scientific publications databases.
The objective of the work is to gather expert advice, experience the tools and visualize their potential use through a pilot based on NRCan needs, in particular for performance reporting, informing foresighting type analysis and addressing priority issues related to readily identify citation of peer-reviewed publications in other type of databases, such as Environmental Assessments.
Through this pilot, NRCan will obtain access to expertise, advice and tools including an example that identifies NRCan citations in up to 4 Environmental Assessment reports. Meetings with focus groups of NRCan experts and supplier experts, the associated example, and access to the tool will allow for an assessment of the potential value added.
