Managed Services for OpenText Content Management Environment OSC201617M-106 (the “RFP)
Ontario Securities Commission
20 Queen Street West, F22, Box 55
Toronto ON M5H 3S8
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) is soliciting competitive proposals from respondents to upgrade the OSC’s OpenText (“OT”) content management environment, migrate the OSC’s license and data to the respondent’s fully managed cloud environment and host the content management environment on the respondent’s secure infrastructure, all as further described in this RFP (collectively, the “Services”).
The OSC intends to enter an agreement with the selected respondent for an initial term of 3 years, with the right to extend the agreement on the same terms and conditions, including costs (subject to annual increases in the fees for the Services based on the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index – Canada (all items) following the end of year five), for an initial renewal period of two years, followed by up to two additional one year renewal periods (seven years in total).
Responses to this RFP must be submitted in the English language.
This RFP is an open competitive, negotiated request for proposal.
The potential scope of services is described in detail in the RFP for Managed Services for OpenText Content Management Environment which is available through MERX at www.merx.com or 1-800-964-6379, OSC reference number OSC201617M-106. The RFP and all updates may be obtained from Merx for $25.00 CDN.
Proposals must be received on or before 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 26, 2018 by the use of MERX Electronic Bid Submission (EBS). Respondents shall be solely responsible for the delivery of their Proposals in the manner and time prescribed. Respondents must register with Merx to obtain and to submit a response to this RFP. The fee from Merx for EBS is $25.00 CDN.
Questions concerning submitting through MERX EBS should be addressed to:
MERX Customer Support:
Phone: 1-800-964-6379
Email: merx@merx.com
MERX EBS does not allow submissions to be uploaded after the Proposal Submission Deadline, so the respondent should ensure they allow plenty of time to upload the documents.
Proposals transmitted by facsimile or sent by any other means shall not be considered.
This procurement is subject to Chapter 5 of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement; Chapter 9 of the Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement; and Chapter 19 of the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
