1.0 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 and their baggage in designated airports. Further information about CATSA can be obtained at www.catsa.gc.ca.
1.1 Estimated Standing Offer Value
$900,000
2.0 Description
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (“CATSA”) has a requirement to establish up to three Standing Offers for the provision of real property advisory services on an “as and when required” basis for a period of three years, as further described in Schedule “A” (Statement of Work) and this RFSO.
3.0 Procurement Method
This RFSO establishes an Open Tendering process to enter into up to three non-exclusive Standing Offers.
4.0 Estimated Quantity of Services
During the term of the Standing Offer(s), CATSA may, subject to the availability of funding, purchase an estimated $900,000 of real property advisory services on an as and when required basis, via purchase orders issued under the Standing Offer(s).
By responding to the RFSO, 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 Standing Offer(s) is entered into; and (ii) CATSA cannot commit to purchase any quantity of services until a purchase order is issued in accordance with any resulting Standing Offer(s).
5.0 Term of resulting Standing Offers
It is anticipated that the term of any resulting Standing Offers will be for a term of three years.
6.0 Address for Submission of Questions and Proposals/Responses; 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 must be submitted through the MERX Electronic Bid Submission system at www.MERX.com.
7.0 Mandatory Requirements
The RFSO contains no Mandatory Requirements.
8.0 Rated Requirements
The RFSO will contain details of the rated requirements.
9.0 Contractor Selection
Technical Offers will be evaluated against the Rated Requirements, as outlined in Schedule “C” (Technical Offer Requirements and Evaluation) of the RFSO. Technical Offers will be assigned a score for each rated requirement to establish a Step 1 “Technical Score”. The maximum Technical Score is one hundred (100) points.
At the end of this Step 1 (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.
10.0 Allocation of Tasks/Requirements
See RFSO for details of allocation of tasks/requirements.
11.0 Trade Agreement
This procurement is covered by 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).
12.0 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 webbased forum.
13.0 Language
Proposals/Responses may be submitted in either the English or French language.
