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Department of National Defence

Un (1) Spécialiste de la gestion du cycle de vie

Indigenous set-asideSupply arrangement
Estimated value
Not disclosed
Deadline
January 17, 2025
Published
December 20, 2024
Type
Services
Explore similarEngineering and Research and Technology Based ServicesOntarioIndigenous set-aside
Awarded
This contract has been awarded. Details are drawn from the federal award notice for this solicitation.
Winning supplier
Softsim Technologies Inc.
Contract value
CAD $349K
Award date
2025-02-05
Supplier location
Griffintown, Quebec
RFP against Supply Arrangement

Full description

NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROCUREMENT

File Number: W8486-259794/B
Tier: 1 (< $3.75M)

This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes pervious bid solicitation number W8486-259794/A dated 12 November 2024 with a closing date of 04 December 2024 at 2:00PM EST. A debriefing or feed session was provided by email to the bidders/offerors/supplier who did not bid on the previous solicitation.

This requirement is for the Department of National Defence (DND) for the services of One (1) Senior Life Cycle Management Specialist under Stream 5, Technical Engineering and Maintenance Service. The intent of this solicitation is to establish one (1) Contract for two (2) initial years, with the option to extend the term of the Contract by up to three (3) one-year irrevocable option periods under the same conditions. This solicitation is only open to the below list of pre-qualified suppliers under the Task and Solutions Professional Services (TSPS) (SA) number E60ZT-18TSPS.

Time Frame of Delivery: ASAP

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.

RFP documents will be e-mailed directly from the Contracting Authority to the Qualified Supply Arrangement Holders who are being invited to bid on this requirement. Bidders are advised that the RFP documents are not available on the CanadaBuys Tender Management Application (https://canadabuys.canada.ca).

The TSPS Method of Supply is a result of a formal competitive process which was established as a result of extensive consultations with industry. The Method of Supply provides suppliers with an on-going opportunity to become prequalified for participation in future bidding opportunities. To obtain more information about how to become a pre-qualified supplier for TSPS please contact Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC).

For general information on the various PWGSC Methods of Supply, or to obtain specific information on a PWGSC professional service method of supply, please visit PWGSC's CanadaBuys Tender Management Application website at: https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/about-us/news-and-eve…

List of Pre-Qualified Suppliers :

This requirement is open the following suppliers who qualified under the stated consultant stream, security level, region and tier:

7351933 Canada Inc
9468269 Canada Corp.
ACF Associates Inc.
ADGA Group Consultants Inc.
Adirondack Information Management Inc., The AIM Group Inc. in Joint Venture
Akkodis Canada Inc.
Altis Recruitment & Technology Inc.
Amyantek Inc
Appian Corporation
CAE Inc.
Calian Ltd.
Deloitte Inc.
Fleetway Inc.
IPSS INC.
Maverin Business Services Inc.
MaxSys Staffing & Consulting Inc.
MONZ CONSULTING INC., NEWFOUND RECRUITING CORPORATION. in Joint Venture
Newfound Recruiting Corporation
Norda Stelo Inc.
OLAV CONSULTING CORP., MOSHWA ABORIGINAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, IN JOINT VENTURE
Procom Consultants Group Ltd.
Prologic Systems Ltd.
Promaxis Systems Inc
Protak Consulting Group Inc., Soubliere Interiors Ltd., 2672486 Ontario Inc. In Joint Venture
Reticle Ventures Canada Incorporated
SoftSim Technologies Inc..

T.E.S. Contract Services INC.
T.I.7 INC., THE SOURCE STAFFING SOLUTIONS INC., in Joint Venture
Talencity Inc.
Technomics, Incorporated
The AIM Group Inc.
Thomas&Schmidt Inc.
Tiree Facility Solutions Inc.
V42 Management Consulting, Inc.
Valcom Consulting group Inc.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR BIDDERS

For services requirements, Bidders must provide the required information as detailed in article 2.3 of Part 2 of the bid solicitation, in order to comply with Treasury Board policies and directives on contracts awarded to former public servants.

Security Requirement:

There are security requirements associated with this requirement:

Supplier Security Clearance required: Secret
Security Level required (Document Safeguarding): None
FOCI Review: None

For additional information, consult Part 6 – Security and Other Requirements, and Part 7 – Resulting Contract Clauses. For more information on personnel and organization security screening or security clauses, bidders should refer to the Industrial Security Program (ISP) of Public Works and Government Services Canada (http://ssi-iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/index-eng.html) website.

Location of Work :

Region: CFB Esquimalt

Specific Location: CFB Esquimalt

BIDDERS’ INQUIRIES

Inquiries regarding this Request for Proposal requirement must be submitted to the Contracting Authority:

Name: Jennifer Ouellet
Email: j••••••••@••••••.••.ca

The Crown retains the rights to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

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Basic information

Reference
cb-433-55885639
Solicitation no.
W8486-259794/B
Buyer
Department of National Defence
Notice type
RFP against Supply Arrangement
Method
Competitive - Traditional
Procurement category
*SRV
Trade agreements
*Please refer to Tender Description or Tender Documents
Estimated value
Not disclosed
Source
canadabuys

Classification & terms

UNSPSC
UNSPSC 81000000 — Engineering and Research and Technology Based Services

Delivery & regions

Province
Ontario
Regions of delivery
*Victoria

Key dates

Published
December 20, 2024
Closes
January 17, 2025
Amendment no.
002

Likely incumbents

(5)

Suppliers who have won similar work from this buyer before.

  1. 1
    Promaxis Systems Inc.
    8 contracts won· latest May 16, 2025
    CAD $7.3M
    total awarded
  2. 2
    Valcom Consulting Group Inc.
    7 contracts won· latest November 25, 2024
    CAD $5M
    total awarded
  3. 3
    Calian Ltd.
    5 contracts won· latest May 9, 2025
    CAD $1.5M
    total awarded
  4. 4
    S.i. Systems
    3 contracts won· latest December 2, 2024
    CAD $14.8M
    total awarded
  5. 5
    Experis Canada Inc.
    2 contracts won· latest November 27, 2024
    CAD $4.3M
    total awarded

Promaxis Systems Inc. is the most likely incumbent, based on how often and how recently they have won this buyer’s work in this category. To displace them, expect to need a clearly stronger proposition or price.

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