Description:The National Capital Commission (NCC) is requesting offers from firms to provide landscaping and general cleaning services in the National Capital Region on a contractual and when requested basis. It is the NCC’s intention to award one (1) contract and one (1) Standing Offer Agreement (SOA) to one firm which will be in effect from the date of award (spring 2022) until March 31, 2025.Closing Date:To be considered, your offer must be received no later than 3 p.m. EDT on May 2, 2022 by email at B••••••••@•••••••.ca with a reference to tender file #MA049.Inquiries:ADDRESS INQUIRIES TO : Micheline Al-Koutsi, Senior Contract Officer, m••••••••@•••••••.••.To ensure the integrity of this tender process, all enquiries and other communications must be directed only to Micheline Al-Koutsi, Senior Contract Officer at m••••••••@•••••••.••.Interested proponents must not contact any other employee of the NCC, or other persons involved in this solicitation. Non-compliance with this requirement during the solicitation period may, for that reason alone, result in disqualification of a proponent.All enquiries must be submitted in writing by e-mail to the Contracting Authority no later than April 25, 2022 in order to be considered by the NCC. Throughout the bidding process, the NCC shall endeavour to provide responses to inquiries (by the issuance of addenda) deemed relevant by the NCC and received in writing by the Contracting Authority. Only information provided in addenda shall be an integral part of the resulting contract and standing offer.All addenda will be posted on buyandsell.gc.ca.RETURN PROPOSALS TO: National Capital Commission by email at B••••••••@•••••••.••.Note: The bid email has a maximum capacity of 30 megabytes. Proponent may divide the technical submission into several emails (ie. email 1A, 1B, 1C, etc.) to stay within the 30 megabytes limit per email.Faxed and hard copy (submitted in person or via mail/courier) bids will not be accepted for the subject bid solicitation.There is no public opening scheduled.The official Government Electronic Tendering Service website is http://buyandsell.gc.ca.Please ensure that you download your document from this site, in order to obtain all information related to the tender. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have received all the posted tender information to ensure tender compliance and not be disqualified.The procurement process of this solicitation is subject to the trade agreement listed above.BASIS OF SELECTION:An offer must comply with all the requirements of the Contract and the Request for Standing Offer to be declared responsive.The Responsive offer with the lowest total evaluated price will be recommended for issuance of a Contract and a Standing Offer Agreement.
