Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with
Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: None
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
47051-144824/A
Mansour, Silvana
Telephone No. - (819) 956-3519 ( )
Fax No. - (819) 956-5925
DESCRIPTION: Informatics Professional Services
DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT
The Canada Border Services Agency seeks professional services to
assist with the preparation, analysis and management of existing
commercial off-the-shelf products procured and used within an
integrated solution by eManifest and other related projects, to
support the business deliverables within e-manifest for the
resolution of key commodities and trade chain partners, to
optimize the use of the Operational Decision Management (ODM)
system to include future eManifest requirements, and to address
all outstanding change requests to existing requirements and
design decisions as they are resolved by CBSA.
CBSA requires subject matter expertise in customs commercial
processing, customs reporting, commercial supply chain
initiatives with the trading community and IBM technologies
(Languageware, Omnifind, Quality Stage and DataStage and AVI,
Master Data Management (MDM), and Operational Decision Manager,
IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight and Global Name Recognition).
CBSA is seeking to establish a team of IT consultants consisting
of the following twelve (12) resource categories:
ODM Product Expert one (1) resource required
ODM Senior Rules Developer one (1) resource required
ODM Software Architect one (1) resource required
DataStage Quality Stage with AVI Product Expert one (1)
resource required
Business Analysts five (5) resource required
Master Data Management Product Expert one (1) resources
required
ISII Product Expert one (1) resource required
Languageware Product Expert one (1) resource required
JAVA Technical Specialist one (1) resource required
Global Name Recognition one (1) resource required
Application Architect one (1) resource required
Data Analyst one (1) resource required
Services are to be provided on an "as and when requested" basis
using a Task Authorization (TA) approach to authorize work in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract.
CONTRACT PERIOD
Services will be required for a period of eighteen months from
contract award date, with one additional one year option to
extend. The work will be performed in the National Capital
Region.
SECURITY REQUIREMENT
The Contractor must, at all times during the performance of the
Contract, hold a valid Facility Security Clearance at the level
of SECRET, with approved Document Safeguarding at the level of
SECRET, issued by the Canadian Industrial Secu-rity Directorate
(CISD), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC).
The Contractor personnel requiring access to CLASSIFIED
information, assets or sensitive work site(s) must EACH hold a
valid personnel security screening at the level of SECRET,
granted or approved by the CISD, PWGSC.
Canada will not delay the award of any contract to allow bidders
to obtain the required clearance.
EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS
The evaluation of the proposals will be based on mandatory
criteria, point rated criteria and a financial evaluation.
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
