INTERACTIVE MAPPING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL KIT

Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada-Peru FTA/Canada-Colombia FTA Tendering Procedures: Attachment: None Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Vendor Name and Address: DBx GEOMATICS INC. 37 boulevard Saint-Joseph 2ème étage Gatineau Quebec Canada J8Y3V8 Nature of Requirements: ACAN - INTERACTIVE MAPPING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL KIT

21120-130396/A Baker, Roxane Telephone No. - (819) 956-1105 Fax No. - (819) 953-3703

REQUIREMENT

Correctional Service Canada has a requirement for the provision of goods as specified under "Background" below. The purpose of this Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) is to signal the government's intention to award a contract for these goods to DBx GEOMATICS Inc., Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Before awarding a contract, however, the government would like to provide other suppliers with the opportunity to demonstrate that they are capable of satisfying the requirements set out in this Notice, by submitting a statement of capabilities during the 15 calendar day posting period.

If other potential suppliers submit a statement of capabilities during the 15 calendar day posting period that meet the requirements set out in the ACAN, the government will proceed to a full tendering process on either the government's electronic tendering service or through traditional means, in order to award the contract.

If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a statement of capabilities meeting the requirements set out in the ACAN, a contract will be awarded to the pre-selected supplier. BACKGROUND: Correctional Service Canada requires a Commercial Interactive Mapping Software Development Tool Kit with the ability to create custom dashboard mapping applications with dockable complementary graphs, charts, data tables and windows. Correctional Service Canada's server environment is attached as Annex B.

Public Works and Government Services Canada , on behalf of its Client, Correctional Service Canada, intends to enter into a sole source contract with DBx GEOMATICS Inc., Gatineau, Quebec, for the purpose of procurement of the following software licenses including Software Maintenance and Support, Training and Professional Services: Initial Requirement

A. Proprietary Software Products as follows

CartoVista Viewer 3.7 - Deployment License for a single web server - Quantity 1 CartoVista Viewer 3.7 - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support - Quantity 1 CartoVista Publisher 3.8 - Desktop application - Quantity: 2 CartoVista Publisher 3.8 - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support - Quantity 2 CartoVista North America Tiles for CartoVista 3.8 - Deployment License for a single web server - Quantity 1 CartoVista North America Tiles for CartoVista 3.8 - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support - Quantity 1 CartoVista Software Development Kit (SDK) - Quantity 1 CartoVista Software Development Kit (SDK) - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support - Quantity 1 CartoVista Server Component 1.0 - License for a single web server - Quantity 1 CartoVista Server Component 1.0 - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support - Quantity 1 CartoVista Publisher 3.7 - Tile Generation Module (per user license) - Quantity 1 CartoVista Publisher 3.7 - Tile Generation Module - Annual Maintenance and Technical Support - Quantity 1

B. Training and Professional Services as follows

Training on the CartoVista Publisher - 2 days course - 2 participants Training on the CartoVista Software Development Kit (SDK) - 1 day course - 2 participants Preparation of a design and specification document for the development of the pilot project - 3 days Development of the pilot project and installation on DBx GEOMATICS server - 12 days

The contract will also include options to extend maintenance and support services, as follows:

Annual software maintenance and support services over three (3) one (1) year options. MINIMUM ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that it meets all of the mandatory requirements in Annex A

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PRE-SELECTED SUPPLIER

The reasons for single tendering are described in Annex A.

Section 6 of the Government Contract Regulations is being invoked in this procurement as only one person or firm is capable of performing the contract.

Article 506.12(b) of AIT is applicable on the basis when there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no alternative or substitute exists.

Article 1016.2(b) of NAFTA are applicable on the basis of limited tendering due to reasons where, for works of art, or for reasons connected with the protection of patents, copyrights or other exclusive rights, or proprietary information or where there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists.

PERIOD OF CONTRACT

The proposed contract is for the purchase 1 Interactive Mapping Software Development Tool Kit license including associated maintenance and support services for a period of one (1) year, Training and Professional Services from date of Contract Award. The proposed contract includes irrevocable options on the part of Canada to extend the Maintenance and Support period of any resulting contract by up to three (3) additional one (1) year.

The software licenses will be delivered within 10 days of any resulting contract.

CLOSING DATE AND TIME FOR WRITTEN SUPPLIER RESPONSES CHALLENGING THIS REQUIREMENT IS 2:00 p.m. EST, November 29, 2012.

You are hereby notified that the Government intends to solicit a bid and negotiate with one firm only as identified above.

If you wish to submit a written response showing that you are capable of meeting this requirement, it must be done not later than the specified closing date and time. The file number, contracting officer's name, and the closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile transmission, on the covering page. As it is intended to proceed in a timely manner, responses received after the closing date will not be considered.

Responses received on or before the closing date will be considered solely for the purpose of deciding whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Information provided will be used by the Crown for technical evaluation purposes only and is not to be construed as a competitive solicitation. Your written response must provide sufficient evidence (e.g. specifications, technical data, drawings, or any other proof) that clearly demonstrates that your product or service is capable of fulfilling this requirement.

Suppliers that have submitted a response will be notified in writing of PWGSC's decision to continue with the non-competitive procurement or to compete the requirement.

ANNEX A

The reasons for sole source justification for the required Commercial Interactive Mapping Software Development Tool Kit are detailed below. Correctional Service Canada (CSC) requires the software to be compliant with the following functionalities:

Development

A map publisher that is used to build maps from existing GIS data; A high-performance tiling system mixing raster tiling with vector (polygon, points) overlays to create highly interactive mapping applications; Ability to integrate vector and attribute data linked to dynamic data; Advanced thematic and point mapping capabilities; The ability to develop custom user interfaces; Ability to easily update a vector attribute data without having to re-publish the custom applications; Ability to customize a comprehensive set of map features (advanced label settings, visibility ranges, etc.).

End User

Simple map navigation and effective data selection tools; Display of interactive dashboard views (charts, info box, etc.); Dynamic thematic customization; Provide end users with the capability to create ad-hoc queries changing the visual display of graphical and statistical information in real-time; A vector-based map that features interactive content that responds to mouse events to help understand the data and the analysis being displayed; Dockable complementary graphs, charts, data tables and windows; Seamless map navigation.

Technical

Ability to view maps using existing industry standard Adobe Flash; Mapping application must be deployed on CSC's internal server; Bilingual (English/French) publisher and viewer interface; A lightweight mapping component; low server resources consumption; Fast mapping engine; A ready to use tile set with coast to coast coverage for all of Canada; The publisher must NOT require conversion of data which allows CSC to continue maintaining its existing geographical datasets and spatial databases in their current formats (no loss of data, less duplication). Compatible with MapInfo Professional GIS data files.

Services

The requirement is to be able to develop an interactive mapping application; Upon entering a point-of-incident* (i.e. street address), the application will return results identifying the parole offices and police agencies requiring notification based on the geographical area.

ANNEX B

CSC's server environment consists of a wide array of Intel servers running Windows and Itanium servers running HP-UX.

Disk drives for CSC's servers are made available as Direct Attached SCSI or SAN.

1.1 Desktop Environment

a) Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) 4.01 Internet/Intranet browser-base (standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) publishing language of the World Wide Web) b) Microsoft Windows XP SP3 c) Microsoft Office 2007 d) Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 e) Java 6 f) Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5, 4.0

Note: Future versions of the Desktop environment will be moving to Windows 7 and IE9.

1.2 Database Environments

a) Oracle RDBMS, 11g b) Microsoft SQL Server v.2008

1.3 Platform Environments

a) HP-UX11iv3 b) Windows Server 2008 R2 c) VMWare 4.1 ESXi update 1 d) Apache Web Server e) Apache Tomcat f) Citrix g) IBM Websphere h) Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) i) Oracle Application Server j) Oracle Weblogic

1.4 Backup Environment

a) Symantec NetBackup v.7.0.1

1.5 Application Server Platforms

Internet Business Intelligence (BI) Tools

a) Crystal Reports XI b) Crystal Enterprise/Reports 10 c) Oracle XML Publisher d) Oracle OLAP 10.2 e) Oracle Discoverer 10.1.2 f) Oracle OAS 10.1.3.4 g) Oracle WebCache h) Oracle Report Server 10.1.2 i) Oracle AS Metadata Repository

1.6 Directory Services

a) Microsoft AD is used for user authentication and repository of user identity b) Microsoft DNS is used for resolving FQDN c) Microsoft WINS is used to resolve NetBIOS names, however CSC now requires fully-qualified names in all new applications\tools. DNS will be used to resolve these names. d) DHCP is used to configure and assign valid IP addresses and other options on all devices connected to the network e) Microsoft GPO is used to provide an infrastructure for centralized configuration management f) X500 protocol will continue to be the basis of government-wide address lists g) Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used by Web servers for user management and is also used by Business Intelligence (BI) tools

1.7 Network

Communication Services · TCP on IPv4 is the layer 4 and 3 protocols used for all network communications among sites and datacenter servers in CSC. At this point in time, IPv6 is not in use.

Local Area Network (LAN) · 100baseT is the CSC standard and the full infrastructure is currently in place to support it, although Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseT) is used for most server connections in the Data Centre today.

Wide Area Network (WAN) · Frame Relay and ATM - nominal 1.5 Mbps among sites and datacenters · Non Internet based DSL service connecting small offices at nominal 1.0 Mbps among sites and datacenters · IP based LAN extensions

Secure Remote Access · PSTN dial to national datacenters using Government of Canada PKI · Internet-based DSL to national datacenters using Government of Canada PKI

Riverbed WAN Accelerators Application Delivery Controllers (Radware Load Balancers)

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting officer identified above.

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen (15) calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a Statement of Capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contracting authority may then proceed with the award. However, should a Statement of Capabilities be found to meet the requirements set out in the ACAN, then the contracting authority will proceed to a full tendering process.

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date of this Notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

The PWGSC file number, the contracting officer's name and the closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile transmission, on the covering page.

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.