Intention
SaskPower is preparing to initiate a competitive solicitation for an S/4HANA Implementation Partner. SaskPower’s objectives for this initiative are to complete the conversion of its SAP ECC solution to S/4HANA. This upgrade is intended to enhance value to the organization, enabling SaskPower to stay competitive, drive innovation, and help achieve operational excellence. SaskPower intends to issue an RFP with a four-phase evaluation approach including mandatory criteria, scored criteria, an oral presentation phase and a proposal negotiation phase.
SaskPower will be seeking proposals from established and experienced S/4HANA contractors that have delivered successful projects of a similar nature. Therefore, a demonstrated history of S/4HANA implementation projects to successfully complete S/4HANA implementation will be expected by SaskPower. SaskPower will also be looking for firms to demonstrate their experience, methodology, and project personnel.
In order for proponents to view what is thought to be a crucial document that could help with preparing a proposal, SaskPower requires a Non-Disclosure Agreement to be signed and submitted to the contracts-operations@saskpower.com email address before they will be given access to the document. The draft non-disclosure agreement is posted along with this Advanced Notice. This communication is also intended to provide proponents some lead time before the competition opens to prepare and put together a proposal team.
Instructions for the Non-Disclosure Agreement
Prior to executing (signing) the NDA, following details will need to be sent to the contracts-operations@saskpower.com email address:
- Receiving Party's name and information on page 1 of the Contract;
- Receiving Party's information for receiving notices in subsection 11.1 of the Contract;
We will then add the information provided from the proponent to the Non-Disclosure Agreement, and then send it back to the proponent to execute the NDA.
Once the NDA has been executed on the proponent’s end, SaskPower will execute and send back the fully executed Non-Disclosure Agreement to the proponent. After the Non-Disclosure Agreement has been fully executed by the proponent and SaskPower and the RFP package is posted to Merx, the crucial document will be sent to the proponent through email.
This notice is provided to share certain details that reflect SaskPower’s present intentions related to this project. As the procurement documents and related strategy are not yet final, SaskPower reserves the right to alter and / or adjust any information herein. For further details, interested parties are to refer to the published RFP documents upon public posting which should be available through SaskPower’s unique Merx.com portal as well as on Sasktenders.com.
Questions
Proponents with questions are to email procurementinquiries@saskpower.com, including the Advance Notice Number and the name of the Advance Notice Contact listed above.