York University (“York”) intends to expand a project with Salesforce.org to extend its out-of-the-box Higher Education Data Architecture (“HEDA”) across the Schulich School of Business to support Recruiting & Admissions, Career Development, Student Advising, Alumni Outreach and Fundraising, Marketing, and other Student Centric areas. York intends to license the Software as a Service (“SaaS”) platform from Salesforce.org and is notifying its intent by way of an Advanced Contract Award Notice (“ACAN”).
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods or services to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award.
