Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
IMPORTANT NOTICE: There are security requirements associated with this procurement
TITLE:
Applied Machine Learning Engineering and Scientific Services
BACKGROUND
The Department of National Defence (DND) conducts a variety of Research and Development (R&D) activities to develop and improve specific capabilities that are required to support its unique operational mandate. The majority of these types of projects are pursued through Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) at various centers across Canada, or with industrial partners with DRDC oversight. DRDC's mandate includes taking advantage of the most recent and advanced technology to assess, explore and develop novel machine learning (ML) derived products and solutions tailored to specific Canadian Armed Forces requirements.
DRDC, as the DND lead in defence research, must keep up to date with the latest technology in order to deliver effective, high tech solutions to operational problems. The latest trends in ML hold a lot of promise to revolutionize the way DND conducts its business by becoming a key enabler to defence capability development. To that end, this project seeks to establish a technology exploitation mechanism for DRDC and DND to draw upon applied ML engineering and scientific support services.
The objective of this work is to conceive, develop, test, optimize and implement all components of custom ML solutions. The Contractor must provide scientific and engineering services for applied ML in support of R&D activities on an "as and when requested" basis. The support services are divided into two streams: (1) Software Centric Services; and (2) Hardware Centric Services.
The procurement is subject to the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). The procurement is solely limited to Canadian goods and/or services.
This procurement is subject to the Controlled Goods Program. The Defence production Act defines Canadian Controlled Goods as certain goods listed in Canada’s Export Control List, a regulation made pursuant to the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA).
The Federal Contractors Program (FCP) for employment equity applies to this procurement; refer to Part 5 - Certifications and Additional Information, Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses and the annex titled "Federal Contractors Program for Employment Equity" Certification.
It is Canada’s intent to award up to two contract(s) to satisfy this requirement. The period of the Contract will be for a three year period from the date of contract award, with the irrevocable option to extend the term of the contract by up to two additional one year period(s) under the same conditions.
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.
