Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) requires a logistics service provider to execute all the functions associated with managing ISC’s medical supplies and equipment stockpile, including but not limited to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Hand Sanitizer and medical equipment. The aforementioned may include, but is not limited to receipt at the Contractor’s warehouse, secure warehousing, deconsolidation, stocktaking, inventory management, responsive reporting and timely distribution of medical supplies and equipment to various locations in each of the provinces and territories (P/T), including remote, isolated, and semi-isolated First Nations and Inuit communities.
ISC requires an Inbound, Warehousing, and Distribution Solution (IWDS) to provide a complete supply chain approach that encompasses program management, transportation, inbound receipt, warehouse management, inventory management, outbound delivery, and reporting requirements. The warehouse can be shared be a shared warehouse with other clients, as long as requirements are met.
The Contractor must manage the full control of supply chain activities for goods from receipt to Point of Delivery.
The Contractor must provide a temperature-controlled warehouse space that has the capacity to store and handle approximately 1,700 pallets, based on pallet size of 40” x 48” x 60” (1.02m x 1.22m x 1.53m). within 100 km of an International Airport including the following requirements:
a. Managing shipments arriving to the Contractor’s warehouse or to the final destination. This can include coordinating shipment pick-ups and providing transportation of the shipments if required;
b. Receiving inbound shipments;
c. Providing Inventory Management and Inventory Control (including storage of products, security) of medical supplies, hand sanitizer and equipment at the Contractor’s warehouse;
d. Relabeling of packaging to meet regulatory requirements;
e. Picking and packing of medical supplies and equipment for distribution;
f. Shipping primarily to various locations in each of the (P/T) as needed, including remote, isolated, and semi-isolated First Nations and Inuit communities. Shipping may be required to other locations in Canada as needed;
g. Providing reports to ISC, including but not limited to: daily inventory reports (excel only); and
h. Transmission of information to ISC (including inventory tracking, fulfillment, receipts, order management).
i. Disposal Services - When directed by the Project Authority, the Contractor must ship products to disposal sites.
The Contractor must provide warehousing services located in either the province of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, Canada for medical supplies and equipment inventory.
