Respiratory Protective Services RFP Retender (1000358214A)

2022-01-28 00:00:00

None

2022/02/28 14:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Canada

Canada Revenue Agency

Canada Revenue Agency

Canada

Open

PW-22-00983821

1000358214A

Objective The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has a requirement to purchase respiratory protective equipment on an "as and when requested" basis, to support the Criminal Investigations Directorate’s (CID) employees while conducting property searches, which could involve exposure to airborne hazardous substances and/or the handling of contaminated documents. To ensure the proper usage of this equipment, the CRA requires Individual Respirator Fit Testing to be provided for each employee to ensure that the equipment fits properly, and Respiratory Protection Training Sessions to explain how to properly use and care for this equipment. The CRA will also require the Subject Matter Experts to be made available during regular business hours, in order to answer employee questions regarding the respiratory equipment. It is the CRA’s intention to award one Contract to fulfill the requirement. The period of the contract will be for two (2) years with two (2) one-year options to extend the period. The Agency will include a minimum spend commitment of $10,000.00 Canadian (all applicable taxes included) over the entire period of the resulting contract, which includes any exercised option periods. This is a retender of an RFP that originally was posted on October 28th, 2021 and closed on November 26th. CONTRACTOR SELECTION METHODOLOGY The evaluation of proposals will be performed as follows: Step 1 – Evaluation against Mandatory Criteria Step 2 – 　Evaluation of Financial Proposals Step 3 – 　Basis of Selection A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract. Step 4 – Conditions Precedent to Contract Award Step 5 – Proof of Synergy (Ariba) Compliance Step 6 – 　Contract Entry The CRA reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement. TRANSMISSION BY CONNECT Bids must be submitted by using the　Connect service　provided by the Canada Post Corporation. To submit a bid using the Connect service, the Bidder must send an email to the Bid Receiving Unit as early as possible, at least six business days prior to the solicitation closing date and time, (in order to ensure a response), which includes the bid solicitation number and requesting to open a Connect conversation. Requests to open a Connect conversation received after that time may not be answered. In the email, the Bidder must include the name and email address of all individuals who need to participate in the Connect conversation. RFP CLOSING DATE: Bids must be received on or before February 28th, 2022 no later than 14:00 EST, as follows: When responding, the proposal MUST be delivered to the Bid Receiving Unit address indicated below by the time and date indicated on Page 1. BIDDERS ARE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO: Canada Revenue Agency Bid Receiving Unit BRUg@cra-arc.gc.ca Bids will not be accepted if emailed directly to this email address. This email address must be used to request that CRA open a Connect conversation, as detailed in Standard Instructions 2003. Bidders must not use their own licensing agreement for Connect to initiate a Connect conversation with CRA. Due to the nature of this solicitation, electronic transmissions of a proposal by facsimile is not considered to be practical and therefore will not be accepted. Contracting Authority All enquiries regarding this Request for Proposal must be directed in WRITING (see email address below) to: Katherine Hutton Senior Supply/Business Analyst Canada Revenue Agency Administration Directorate Contracting Division 250 Albert St., 8th Floor Ottawa, ON, K1A 0L5 E-mail: Katherine.hutton@cra-arc.gc.ca Please refer to the solicitation documents for further information and instructions regarding this opportunity.

Hutton, Katherine

katherine.hutton@cra-arc.gc.ca