Basic Information

Reference Number

0000044634

Issuing Organization

CBC/Radio Canada

Solicitation Type

RFP - Request for Proposal (Formal)

Solicitation Number

REV20160701

Title

Accreditation – Web Support Team CBC/Radio-Canada

Source ID

FD.CO.CAN.458875.C81670

Details

Location

Canada, Quebec, Montréal

Purchase Type

Term: 2017/02/01 12:00:00 AM EST - 2020/01/31 12:00:00 AM EST
Option: 2 options 1 an/year

Description

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING COMPLETELY AND CAREFULLY PAYING ATTENTION TO ALL REQUIREMENTS AND DATES.

1.SUMMARY OF REQUIRED SERVICES:

CBC/Radio-Canada is seeking Proposals from media buying firms to award two separate contracts for media agency and consulting services for its English and French language networks (English Services and French Services, respectively).

Firms wishing to submit a bid can do so for either one or both of the networks. To evaluate editorial quality in each official language, Proposals for only one of the networks must be submitted in that network’s working language. Firms wishing to bid for both networks must submit their Proposals in both official languages.

Digital Expertise of the Proponent is essential to CBC/Radio-Canada to enable it to achieve its Corporate objectives. CBC/Radio-Canada will only consider Proponents that demonstrate its Digital Social Account Lead has a strong expertise in digital and social media. A minimum score of 70% for this criterion must be obtained.

The Agreement resulting from this shall be for three (3) years with two (2) irrevocable option(s) for CBC/Radio-Canada to extend for one (1) year period(s).

2. MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:

This RFSA is open only to Proponents who meet each of the following mandatory requirements:

2.1       Years of Experience
The company or candidate who will be in charge of the project must have at least five (5) years of experience.

2.2       Mandates of Similar Nature

Design / Web Integration / Quality Control

Proponents must provide at least (3) mandates for Goods and/or Services similar to those described herein, as evidence of their capacity to undertake an agreement with CBC/Radio-Canada.

Web Development

Present at least three (3) Web platform development or Web application mandates carried out over the last three (3) years. The projects will be judged on their complexity and quality of execution.
Present at least one (1) mandate that includes presenting and analyzing big data in the form or a report and/or dashboard carried out over the last three (3) years.

2.3 Software (Mastered):

Web Design

Photoshop
Wireframing tool of choice

Web Integration

Mastery of Git, Bower, Grunt, Sass, Bootstrap, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5
Knowledge of Framework Django

Development: Mastery of the following software:

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Django, Django Rest Framework,
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
AWS, UNIX, Shell scripting, supervisord, uWSGI, Nginx and other similar software
Linux operations and development environments
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis

Quality Control

Jira

3. CONFERENCE CALL (optional)

An optional Conference Call will be held December 12, 2016, 2:00 p.m. Montreal Local Time. Contact us by email at appro.cbc.src@radio-canada.ca before December 12, 12 p.m. (noon) Montreal Local Time to obtain an access code and the time of the call. The access code will allow you to identify yourself anonymously when taking the attendance.

4.   TO REQUEST THE RFP DOCUMENTATION

To ensure that the bid is valid, all bidders must and have to obtain the documents of the RFP. The RFP documentation must be ordered directly from Merx.

To obtain the RFP Documentation, Proponent must submit the Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) duly completed and signed, accompanied by a written statement signed by a duly authorized representative confirming that the Proponent meets all the Mandatory requirements described in Section 2 above. The documents to be completed are available on Merx and must be send, to the attention of the CBC / Radio-Canada representative for this RFP.

Luc Deschenes
Senior Manager, Strategic Supply Management
Finance & Administration
CBC/Radio-Canada

E-mail: appro.cbc.src@radio-canada.ca

If you have not received acknowledgment of your request within forty-eight (48) hours it is your responsibility to resubmit your request.

Following receipt of the signed NDA and a positive assessment of your company’s submissions, you will be provided with the access to the documentation on Merx.

PLEASE NOTE that CBC/Radio-Canada is not responsible for the distribution of the documents.

5. COMMUNICATION WITH CBC/RADIO-CANADA

All questions must be submitted thru the Merx platform, before the date specified at section: PART I: INTRODUCTION Table 1: Critical Dates in the RFP Process

6. RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS

Proposals in response to this RFP are due no later December 23, 2016, 2:00 p.m. Montreal Local Time. The Proponent has the sole responsibility for the timely receipt of a Proposal by CBC/Radio-Canada. The Proponent cannot transfer such responsibility to CBC/Radio-Canada. The MERX clock shall be used to determine the time of receipt of the Proposal, whether the time indicated on such clock is accurate or not. Partial Proposals, amendments or revisions which are received after the date and time for the RFP Submission Closing Date will not be accepted.

Dates

Publication

2016/11/29 05:44:36 PM EST

Bid Intent

Not Available

Question Acceptance Deadline

2016/12/14 11:59:00 PM EST

Questions are submitted online

Yes

Closing Date

2016/12/23 02:00:00 PM EST

Prebid Conference

2016/12/12 02:00:00 PM EST

Contact Information

Luc Deschênes

514-597-5836

appro.cbc.src@radio-canada.ca

Required Acknowledgement

Confirmation Qualification

INSTRUCTIONS

To obtain the RFSA Documentation, Proponent must submit a written statement signed by a duly authorized representative confirming that the Proponent meets all the Mandatory requirements described below. The documents to be completed are available on Merx and must be sent, to the attention of the CBC/Radio-Canada representative for this RFSA.

Luc Deschênes
Senior Manager, Strategic Supply Management
Finance & Administration
CBC/Radio-Canada
E-mail: appro.cbc.src@radio-canada.ca

If you have not received acknowledgment of your request within forty-eight (48) hours, it is your responsibility to resubmit your request.

Following receipt of the signed written statement, you will be provided with the access to the documentation on Merx.

To ensure that the Offer is valid, all Proponents must obtain the documents of the RFSA.
The RFSA file package must be ordered directly from Merx.

Please note that CBC/Radio-Canada is not responsible for the distribution of the documents.

Pre-Bidding Events

Event Type

Prebid Conference

Attendance

Recommended

Event date

2016/12/12 02:00:00 PM EST

Location

Telephone

Event Note

An optional Conference Call will be held December 12, 2016, 2:00 p.m. Montreal Local Time. Contact us by email at appro.cbc.src@radio-canada.ca before December 12, 12 p.m. (noon) Montreal Local Time to obtain an access code and the time of the call. The access code will allow you to identify yourself anonymously when taking the attendance.
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Bid Submission Process

Bid Submission Type

Electronic Bid Submission

Envelope 1 - Technical Proposal

Pricing

No pricing in this envelope

Bid Documents List

Item Name	Description	Mandatory	Limited to 1 file
Bid Documents	Documents defining the proposal	Yes	No
No entries

Additional Bidding Instructions

Supplier must submit its Offer electronically using the MERX website.

Each page should clearly indicate the name of the Supplier, the name of the document, and the number of the RFSA (see number on cover page of this document):

Technical (non-financial) Offer Envelope: The Offer must include all appendices (excluding the pricing appendices, the Financial Statements and financial stability Appendix) and must be submitted in one complete single PDF file (non-protected)

Envelope 2 - Pricing

Pricing

In attached document

Bid Documents List

Item Name	Description	Mandatory	Limited to 1 file
Bid Documents	Documents defining the proposal	Yes	No
No entries

Additional Bidding Instructions

Costing/Pricing Offer Envelope: The Offer must include pricing appendices, financial statements (if required), and the financial stability Appendix and must be submitted in two (2) distinct files:
- one complete single PDF file (non-protected) and;
- one file of each document in its original software application format (Word, Excel etc.) and without read/write protection.

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