Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
Printing, Warehousing, Order Fulfillment and Distribution of CIC
Secure Documents
B8297-140310/B
Gariepy, Jacques
Telephone No. - (613) 998-8582
The purpose of this amendment is to change the Security Guide
and to add the Security Classification Guide to the solicitation.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A SECURITY REQUIREMENT
TITLE: Printing, Warehousing, Order Fulfillment and
Distribution of CIC Secure Documents
The national security exceptions provided for in the trade
agreements have been invoked; therefore, this procurement is
excluded from all of the obligations of all the trade agreements.
The contract period will be for a period of one (1) year plus
four (4) additional periods of one (one) year.
This procurement is subject to national security exception and
is, therefore, excluded from all of the obligations of the trade
agreements.
This requirement is limited to products and / or Canadian
services.
1. SECURITY REQUIREMENT
There is a security requirement associated with this
requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 -
Security, Financial 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 Canadian Industrial Security Directorate
(CISD), Industrial and Security Program of Public Works and
Government Services Canada
(http://ssi-iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/index-eng.html) website.
Bidders must provide a list of names, or other related
information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard
Instructions 2003 .
The national security exceptions provided for in the trade
agreements have been invoked; therefore, this procurement is
excluded from all of the obligations of all the trade agreements.
2. SUMMARY
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is requiring a
contractor to provide Offset printing incorporating security
printing techniques including rainbow printing, optically
variable inks, chemically variable inks, Intaglio printing, hot
foil stamping, serial numbering and others. warehousing,
distribution, inventory control, order processing, invoicing,
order fulfillment, tracking, reporting, and destruction, and
delivery services via armoured vehicle of two key controlled
forms. The two key controlled forms involved in this contract
are the IMM 1346 B and the IMM 1442 B. These forms are used for
the immigration product lines.
3. MANDATORY TECHNICAL CRITERIA
An offer must meet all the mandatory requirements. Offers not
meeting all of the mandatory
requirements will be given no further consideration and will be
declared non-responsive. Offers
meeting all of the mandatory requirements will go on to be
evaluated for the Point-Rated
Requirements.
M.1 CORPORATE CAPABILITY
To demonstrate that the Bidder has the corporate capacity to
manufacture paper-based security documents, the Bidder must
provide a description of three (3) projects undertaken, or
active, during the five (5) years preceding the date of posting
this RFP that collectively included the provision of all of the
following services and production techniques:
M.1.1 Security Consultation and Design services;
M.1.2 Managing the on-going supply of security components,
including paper, required for completing the document;
M.1.3 Offset printing incorporating security printing techniques
including rainbow printing, chemically variable inks;
M.1.4 Intaglio printing;
M.1.5 Hot foil stamping of an Optically Variable Device (OVD);
M.1.6 Optically variable inks,
M.1.7 Inventory and Supply Chain management supporting on-going
production;
M.2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The Bidder must provide a proposed Contractor/Client Project
Organization Chart for Contract implementation and on-going
production management.
The Contractor Project Organization Chart must:
1) Identify an individual, or individuals, who will act as the
Contractor Project Manager and principal point of contact for
the contract period;
2) Identify the positions and roles of the Contractor's
personnel who will interact with CIC to refine the corporate
inventory management system interface to meet the CIC
requirements, redesign or revise forms, manage press checks;
3) Identify the Contractor personnel, their positions in the
organization and their accountability and reporting
relationships for a problem escalation process.
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.
