The Department of National Defence (DND) has a requirement for tailoring services to support Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in fitting, measuring, and altering of service uniforms for both Regular and Reserve personnel within the National Capital Region (NCR).
DND intends to award one contract for a period of one year, with options to extend the contract for three additional periods of one year each at Canada’s discretion
MANDATORY CRITERIA
The Bidders Quote must include the following Mandatory Criteria (Please note this is a summary of the Mandatory Criteria. Please see RFP for the complete list)
The proposal MUST demonstrate that the Bidder meets the following Mandatory Criteria:
1. The Bidder must demonstrate that it has a minimum of one (1) year previous experience managing in a service industry.
For 2, 3 and 4 below, the Bidder may propose one tailor who meets all the required experience/education or the Bidder may propose multiple tailors to meet each of the mandatory requirements.
2. The Bidder must provide one (1) tailor who has a minimum of five (5) years experience within the last ten (10) years in performing tailoring services.
3. The Bidder must provide one (1) tailor who has a minimum of three (3) years experience within the last ten (10) years in performing tailoring of uniforms.
4. The Bidder must provide one (1) tailor who has a Tailoring Trade Certificate, or equivalent.
5. The Bidder must demonstrate that it has adequate capacity to meet the Estimated Service Level Requirements as defined in the Statement of Work.
6. To demonstrate capacity, the Bidder must, at minimum:
detail the number of tailors (on-site, off-site or a combination thereof) it will provide to meet the average demands.
DND reserves the right not to award a contract, regardless of the responses received. The contract if awarded will be awarded to the bidder who meets the mandatory criteria and provides the lowest cost proposal.
Where this notice and the RFP differ, the RFP WILL prevail.
