Notice of Proposed Procurement
(constituting (i) a Notice of Intended Procurement and Summary Notice under CETA, and (ii) a Tender Notice under the CFTA)
1. Introduction
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (“CATSA”) is a Crown corporation with headquarters at 99 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 6B9. CATSA is responsible for the delivery of consistent, effective and efficient screening of passengers and non-passengers in designated airports. Further information about CATSA can be obtained at www.catsa.gc.ca.
1.1 Estimated Contract Value
$2,800,000
2.0 Description
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (“CATSA”) has a requirement to procure advisory and consulting services, on a non-exclusive, as and when required basis, for the delivery of IT security services such as threat risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and on-going consulting services related to CATSA’s IT security program as further described in Schedule “A” (Statement of Work). CATSA intends to award one contract for an initial duration of five years with the possibility of extending for up to five additional one-year periods.
The nature of the Services contained in this RFP may result in the Contractor being required to recommend certain Goods or Services as a solution to address issues identified during the course of delivering the Services (the “Recommended Solution”). The Contractor will not be eligible to bid on any future requirements for Goods and/or Services if the Contractor was involved in identifying, reviewing and/or developing those future requirements as a part of its delivery of the Services, as further described in the RFP.
3.0 Procurement Method
This RFP establishes an Open Tendering process to enter into a non-exclusive Contract.
4.0 Estimated Quantity
CATSA’s estimated annual requirements are for:
two to three threat risk assessments,
two to three vulnerabily assessments;
two to three penetration tests; and
one IT Security Program development project.
During the term of the Contract CATSA may, subject to the availability of funding, purchase additional services on an as and when required basis, via purchase orders issued under the Contract.
By responding to the RFP, bidders acknowledge that: (i) the foregoing are estimates only and are subject to change, in CATSA’s sole and absolute discretion, at any time, up to and including any time after any resulting Contract is entered into; and (ii) CATSA cannot commit to any purchase until a purchase order is issued in accordance with any resulting Contract.
These estimated requirements are for informational purposes only and do not represent a commitment by CATSA to buy all or any quantities.
5.0 Term of Resulting Contract
It is anticipated that the term of any resulting Contract will be for an initial term of five years, renewable for five additional one year periods at CATSA’s sole option.
6.0 Address for Submission of Questions and Proposals; Question Acceptance Deadline and Closing Date
The question acceptance deadline and the closing date are set out in the “Dates” section above. CATSA may extend either or both of such dates.
Questions and proposals/responses must be submitted through the MERX Electronic Bid Submission system at www.MERX.com.
7.0 Mandatory Requirements
There are no mandatory requirements.
8.0 Rated Requirements
The RFP contains details of the rated requirements.
9.0 Contractor Selection
All proposals will be examined in accordance with the following process:
Step 1: Confirmation of Compliance to the Mandatory Requirements
Technical Offers will be reviewed for compliance with the Mandatory Requirements described in Schedule “C” (Technical Offer Requirements and Evaluation) of the RFP to confirm that the information, statements and supporting material in the bidder’s Technical Offer substantiate a compliant response. Mandatory Requirements will be confirmed on a simple pass or fail basis. Technical Offers that do not comply with any Mandatory Requirement will be considered non-compliant and will receive no further consideration.
Step 2: Evaluation of Rated Requirements (100 Points)
Technical Offers will be evaluated against the Rated Requirements, as outlined in Schedule “C” (Technical Offer Requirements and Evaluation). Technical Offers will be assigned a score for each rated requirement to establish a Step 2 “Technical Score”. The maximum Technical Score is one hundred (100) points.
At the end of this Step 2 (Evaluation of Rated Requirements), CATSA will establish a shortlist of up to the top three bidders with the highest total Technical Scores that have met the minimum Technical Score and are within a twenty percent (20%) range of the highest Technical Score. Only the bidders meeting these criteria will be eligible to proceed to the next step of the evaluation and selection process.
Step 4: Evaluation of Financial Offer
Financial Offers will be evaluated and assigned an “Evaluated Price” in accordance with Schedule “D”, (Financial Offer Requirements and Evaluation).
Step 5: Recommendation of Award
CATSA intends to recommend a bidder for award of a contract based on the following methodology.
10.0 Trade Agreement
This procurement is subject to:
- Chapter Nineteen (Government Procurement) of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); and
- Chapter Five (Government Procurement) of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).
11.0 Use of MERX
CATSA will only use MERX as its web-based forum to post solicitations. As such, the attached procurement document has only been posted on MERX, and all related documents, notices, addendums, and questions and responses thereto will only be posted on MERX.
See MERX at http://www.merx.com for details respecting how to access the solicitation documents and any costs related thereto.
CATSA does not authorize, or make any representations or warranties in respect of, any postings relating to its procurements found on any other web-based forum.
12.0 Language
A French language version of the RFP will be made available upon request.
Proposals may be submitted in either the English or French language.
